Number 91, or, The adventures of a New York telegraph boy
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Messengers -- Fiction; Misers -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Number ninety-one; Number 91; Adventures of a New York telegraph boy
Description: Sixteen-year-old Paul Parton, employed as a messenger boy in 1880's New York, finds a new path in life when he is hired to guard a house from burglars and inadvertently discovers his miserly guardian's family secrets.
Notes: First published in 1887 by Frank A. Munsey, New York.