The Opium Ship (1919) – Two Irishmen, one a drunk, the other consumptive, are shanghaied into becoming crew on a schooner that has been hijacked to smuggle opium in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Thailand. Between a typhoon, a shipwreck, a mid ocean rendezvous with a smuggler’s junk, and the attentions of two kidnapped women, this is anything but a leisure cruise. Chapter I. – The Fiddler. Chapter II. – The Schooner. Chapter III. – Arevalo Takes Charge. Chapter IV. – Canaughan Bargains. Part 2 – Synopsis Of Preceding Chapters. Chapter V. – The “Chang Yan.” Chapter VI. – The Sea Tryst. Chapter VII. – Desmond Adventures. Chapter VIII. – Ashore. Part 3 – Synopsis Of Preceding Chapters. Chapter IX. – On The Beach. Chapter X. – In The Night. Chapter XI. – Off! Part 4 – Synopsis Of Preceding Chapters. Chapter XII. – O’Sullivan Puts His Foot In It. Chapter XIII. – Personally Conducted. Chapter XIV. – Fair Sailing. Henry James O’Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada in 1887. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories. He wrote over 100 novels, earning the nickname “King of the Pulps”. The Opium Ship contains 5 illustrations.
