Adrift in the City or, Oliver Conrad's Plucky Fight. by Horatio Alger - book
ILLUSTRATED Oliver discovers that his late mother is actually being held prisoner in an insane asylum by his cruel stepfather and searches for a way to free her.
Oliver Conrad, fifteen, lives in a country mansion with his stepfather, stepbrother and mother. Oliver’s stepfather secretly commits his mother to a madhouse to steal her estate and pretends she has died. To get Oliver out of the picture, his stepfather arranges a job for him in New York City. Olive must survive through many trials of hardship to save his mother and get home to reveal the truth of his stepfather’s evil plans.