Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China is a pulp adventure by George F. Worts, an American writer who contributed widely to the popular fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. The novel follows its hero through the intrigue and danger of China — a setting that held enormous exotic appeal for Western pulp-fiction audiences of the 1920s.
Worts was a capable practitioner of the fast-paced mystery-adventure genre, and Peter the Brazen showcases the atmosphere and action that made pulp fiction such a driving force in popular culture between the wars. The free EPUB download makes this piece of early twentieth-century genre history available to contemporary readers.