 He soon became its publisher and proprietor.To promote circulation, he published many prominent European novelists and memoirists of the time as serials, and in 1850 he wrote a sensationalist anti-Jesuit novel, "Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis" ["The Mysteries of St. Louis"], translated subsequently into English, French and Czech.It was in the tradition of the "urban mystery" novels of Eugène Sue ("Les mystères de Paris", "Le juif errant").