The Opium Ship

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.