Summary
Bradley was an agent for the Australian Theatrical Management Company and a manager of the Walter Bentley Dramatic Company, touring in Australia, New Zealand, America and England with musical and theatre performers in the 1880s and 1890s. He wrote several plays, including The Gold Escort, A Queen of Scarlet and The Miracle as well as dramatisations of his successful popular novels: The Red Cripple (1891), a detective story set in London, and The Belgrave Case (1891). The latter is a sensational crime novel of Melbourne's social elite, which was likened in the press to Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) and described by one reviewer for the Australasian Critic as 'an aggravated form of the shilling shocker.' Another novel linked to his name has not been traced.