Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 624

# The Submarine Detectives: Or, The Water Ghoul

By Leon Lewis

This serial adventure opens in Baltimore where wealthy ship-owner Hiram Weatherbee's wife Myra grieves the loss of their daughter Florrie, drowned in the bay years earlier. Two of Weatherbee's ships have been mysteriously destroyed by what appears to be a drifting torpedo; Weatherbee suspects his old enemy Abner Radwill, presumed dead. A mysterious clergyman visits Myra with news that Florrie survives, rescued by a fisherman—but this proves a ruse. Myra is abducted, while Weatherbee narrowly escapes a kidnapping attempt. Three months later, young detectives Ally Webber and Mark Sherman investigate in Chesapeake Bay near the wrecked ship Alaska. Approaching the vessel's hull, they encounter sharks fleeing the wreck's flooded hold, suggesting something otherworldly lurks within the sunken ship.