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Publication Date

1866 - 1924
(years)

Genre

  • Detective and mystery stories (14) + -
  • Romance fiction (8) + -
  • Western stories (4) + -
  • Bildungsromans (2) + -
  • Historical fiction (2) + -
  • Sea stories (2) + -
  • American Revolutionary War stories (1) + -
  • Polar exploration stories (1) + -
  • Railroad stories (1) + -
  • Temperance stories (1) + -

Series

  • Waverley library (quarto edition) (9) + -
  • Pluck and luck (6) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (4) + -
  • Beadle's new dime novels (3) + -
  • Beadle's dime novels (1) + -

Author

  • Wade, William (6) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (4) + -
  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (4) + -
  • Crowell, Mary Reed, Mrs., 1847-1934 (2) + -
  • Dowd, Jno. B. (John B.), 1841-1906 (2) + -
  • Turner, Wm. Mason (William Mason), 1835-1877 (2) + -
  • Austin, Howard (1) + -
  • Badger, Jos. E. (Joseph Edward), 1848-1909 (1) + -
  • Blaine, Eleanor (1) + -
  • Burton, Jennie Davis, Mrs. (1) + -
  • Claxton, Sara (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Duganne, A. J. H. (Augustine Joseph Hickey), 1823-1884 (1) + -
  • Fleming, Alice May (1) + -
  • Leicester, Margaret (1) + -
  • Merritt, James C. (1) + -
  • Porter, Ann E. (Ann Emerson), 1816-1898 (1) + -
  • Thomas, Henry J. (1) + -
  • Wilson, Thomas H., Captain (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (12) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (6) + -
  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (4) + -
  • Beadle and Company (1) + -

Topic

  • Man-woman relationships (9) + -
  • Revenge (6) + -
  • Conduct of life (5) + -
  • Deception (3) + -
  • Escapes (3) + -
  • Marriage (3) + -
  • Rescues (3) + -
  • Robbery (3) + -
  • African American men (2) + -
  • African Americans (2) + -
  • Brides (2) + -
  • French (2) + -
  • History (2) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (2) + -
  • Interpersonal relations (2) + -
  • Poisoning (2) + -
  • Slavery (2) + -
  • Young men (2) + -
  • Young women (2) + -
  • Abandoned children (1) + -
  • Accidents (1) + -
  • Adopted children (1) + -
  • Alcohol (1) + -
  • Alcoholics (1) + -
  • American loyalists (1) + -
  • Anger (1) + -
  • Arabs (1) + -
  • Beauty, Personal (1) + -
  • Betrothal (1) + -
  • Body snatching (1) + -
  • Bribery (1) + -
  • Cannibalism (1) + -
  • Cherokee Indians (1) + -
  • Child detectives (1) + -
  • Clubs (1) + -
  • Conspiracies (1) + -
  • Department stores (1) + -
  • Despair (1) + -
  • Disasters (1) + -
  • Elopement (1) + -
  • English (1) + -
  • Explorers (1) + -
  • Families (1) + -
  • Fathers and daughters (1) + -
  • Fire (1) + -
  • Fortune (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (1) + -
  • Gorilla (1) + -
  • Governesses (1) + -
  • Hanging (1) + -
  • Impostors and imposture (1) + -
  • Indentured servants (1) + -
  • Jealousy (1) + -
  • Jews (1) + -
  • Jews, German (1) + -
  • Kidnapping (1) + -
  • Lion (1) + -
  • Locomotive engineers (1) + -
  • Love-hate relationships (1) + -
  • Missing persons (1) + -
  • Mothers and sons (1) + -
  • Ordeal (1) + -
  • Paramours (1) + -
  • Parties (1) + -
  • Peddlers and peddling (1) + -
  • Pirates (1) + -
  • Poets (1) + -
  • Private investigators (1) + -
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Character

  • Denver Doll (Fictitious character) (1) + -
  • Moultrie, William, 1730-1805 (1) + -
  • William Bethel (Little Bill) (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (4) + -
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (2) + -
  • South Carolina (2) + -
  • Charleston (S.C.) (1) + -
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1) + -
  • England (1) + -
  • Massachusetts (1) + -
  • North Carolina (1) + -
  • North Pole (1) + -
  • Ohio (1) + -
  • South Dakota (1) + -
  • United States (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (19) + -
  • Dime novels (4) + -

Collection

  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (13) + -
  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (10) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ New Buffalo Bill weekly
  • (-) ≠ Colorado
  • (-) ≠ Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character)
  • (-) ≠ Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
  • (-) ≠ Tousey, Frank
  • (-) = Murder
  • (-) ≠ Investigation

Sort

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A daughter of Eve, or, Blinded by love
Adria, the adopted, or, The mystery of Ellesford Grange
Bessie Raynor, the work girl, or, The quicksands of life
Death-face, the detective, or, Life and love in New York
Denver Doll's mine, or, Little Bill's big loss
For her dear sake, or, Saved from himself
Guilty or not guilty, or, The ordeal of fire
Her face was her fortune
Little Thunderbolt, or, The rangers of the Carolinas
Love-mad, or, Betrothed, married, divorced, and -
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy
The boy explorers, or, Abandoned in the land of ice
The king's man
The maniac engineer, or, A life's mystery
The masked bride, or, Will she marry him?
The merry ten, or, The shadows of a social club
The rival boat clubs, or, The boss school at Beechwood
The shattered glass, or, A country boy in New York
The wrong man : a tale of the early settlements
Through thick and thin, or, Our boys abroad
Tony Fox, the ferret, or, Boss Bob's boss job
Trust her not, or, A true knight
Two young girls, or, The bride of an earl

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