Beadle's Pocket Library No. 343

1890 · 32 pages

Mike, the Bowery Detective: Peleg Prancer of Vermont By Ed. L. Wheeler, author of the Deadwood Dick and Rosebud Rob novels. This serialized detective story in *Beadle's Dime Library* opens with Mike, a wiry young Bowery detective dressed fashionably as a dandy, soliciting work in a saloon. Bartender Terry directs him to Pat Reilly, a hotel porter, who telegraphs about a job at the Hotel Devonshire with a client named Peleg Prancer. Mike adopts the alias "M. Maverick, Private Detective" and meets Prancer—a gaunt, flour-dusted Vermont miller from Porcupine Corners, dressed in rough homespun clothes. Prancer is agitated and enlists Mike's services. During their conversation, Prancer reveals he has a daughter who has eloped or "skipped," precipitating his distress and his need for detective work to locate her.

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