Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 874

1894 · 16 pages

*Broadway Billy's French Game*, serialized in this Beadle and Adams dime novel, features detective Broadway Billy in pursuit of Romaine Rosenthal, an English-speaking Frenchman suspected of involvement in a bonds robbery in New York. Operating under orders from the United States Secret Service, Billy arrives at Le Havre to arrest Rosenthal upon his steamer's arrival. However, the arrest is complicated: Billy is himself arrested by two men posing as Paris detectives—revealed to be Rosenthal's confederates. With assistance from American tourists Tom and Polly Parker, Billy proves his identity and secures his release. Harry Freeman, Billy's partner, arrives having been detained by accomplices. The pair suspects they have been deliberately duped. By author J.C. Cowdrick, the narrative examines mistaken identities and international crime.

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