You have got to start right to come out right.
There are hundreds of detectives, moreover, who barely make a living. Only the experienced and the skillful grow rich, for it is in this business precisely the same as in everything else.
Only hard work, patience, pluck and perseverance will win the fight.
I remain, my dear readers,
Your obedient servant,
James Brady.
New York, April 1, 1890.
CHAPTER I.
A LETTER FROM DETECTIVE KEAN.
One of the brightest and most successful of our New York detectives is Mr. Samuel Kean, at present attached to Pinkerton’s Agency.
He was one of my pupils, and a better one I never had.