Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 848

This issue of *Beadle and Adams*' publication (No. 848, October 24, 1893) features "Jack Jeffers' Foul Play" by T.C. Harbaugh, author of the Buckskin Detective and Dodger Dick series. The serial follows Clever Clip, a street-smart boy called the Battery Ferret, who frequents Battery Park in New York. When German doll-maker Augusta Muller returns from Germany with her orphaned brother Paul and a trunk containing twenty thousand marks hidden in its lining, the trunk disappears at Castle Garden, apparently stolen by a hackman. Clip investigates, noting the suspect's description. Paul observes the thief wore a distinctive serpent ring with a diamond. Clip recognizes the ring as belonging to lawyer Nicholas Nabb, leading him to suspect Nabb's involvement in the theft. The narrative establishes a criminal conspiracy originating in Germany, with Jeffers potentially complicit.