His Great Adventure

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This adventure mystery novel follows the protagonist Edgar Brainard, a young man who is struggling with repeated failure and living in poverty in New York City. One day, as he walks down Fifth Avenue lost in thought, he stumbles upon a group of children huddled around a man lying prone on the pavement. The man is not drunk as the children claim, but is having some sort of fit. Edgar takes charge, calls an ambulance, and carries the man to his room. The man then asks Edgar to retrieve something for him from a private safe in an office in San Francisco, giving him the combination of the safe and a power of attorney to take everything from it. He is to deliver the contents of the safe to Melody in Berlin. The rest of the story follows the young man as he embarks on a journey to fulfill the old man's bidding.