Deadwood Dick Library No. 26

Dick Turpin Library catalog note This issue features "A Midnight Attack," an adventure serial centered on Dick Turpin, the legendary highwayman. Set in 1870s San Francisco, the story follows Bill Barclay, a drunken miner arriving from Leopard Lode with a valuable leather valise containing gold and papers proving noble English heritage. At the Crimson Palace saloon, he encounters Edna Earle, the Diamond Queen, a scheming woman who seduces him with promises of marriage. She drugs his champagne and leads him into San Francisco's Chinese district, where he loses consciousness. He awakens imprisoned in a damp cellar beneath the city, discovering a mysterious coffin among stored boxes. The narrative combines mining-camp adventure with criminal intrigue and underground mystery.