Dan the detective
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Newspaper vendors -- Fiction; Detectives -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Since the failure of the family business and the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Dan Mordaunt has had to support himself and his ailing mother by working as a newsboy in 1880's New York until an opportunity to use his detection skills leads him to a new and more prosperous career.
Notes: First published in 1884 by G.W. Carleton & Co. & Street & Smith, New York.