Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1902, by
FRANK TOUSEY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE
By OLD KING BRADY.
INTRODUCTORY.
OLD KING BRADY TELLS WHY HE WROTE THE BOOK.
Some of my friends will no doubt wonder why I should leave the beaten track and contrary to the course I have always adopted of furnishing notes to my friend, the New York detective, write a book myself.
The fact of the matter is the number of boys who love to read my adventures has grown to be so numerous—it is away up in the hundreds of thousands Mr. Tousey tells me—that their wishes have got to be respected.
For several years they have been asking for instructions from me which will transform them from school-boys into full-fledged detectives, as though touched by a magician’s wand.