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A Sharper's Downfall

Nicholas Carter

About the time that everything was in readiness, the model even being completed, the electrician was taken suddenly ill and as suddenly died. The drawings and models were all in the possession of his ..

The Four-Fingered Glove

Nicholas Carter

She was nineteen, with the poise, the repose and the presence of twenty-five. She was tall, regal, as graceful as a fawn; she had unfathomable, gipsy eyes, hair of a dead black, with a faint suggestio..

Won By Magic

Nicholas Carter

Jai Singh was instructed to get his boat, as well as the crew, on board the ship, and the captain immediately gave orders to steam up to the regular wharf belonging to Jefferson Arnold.Nick Carter got..

The Stolen Brain

Nicholas Carter

The detective saw that John Wallace was not a visionary crank but a practical man of affairs, who was not likely to exaggerate. Grantley’s reputation lent color to the possibility, for another thing, ..

Nick Carter Stories No. 136

Nicholas Carter

Nick Carter nodded, without speaking. He understood the situation very well. There was nothing to be gained by questioning Claudia further. They got to the gateway of Crownledge, and Chick opened the ..

Nick Carter Stories No. 140

Nicholas Carter

Though Nick Carter was convinced of his guilt, moreover, Stuart Floyd had, with the help of an able criminal lawyer, contrived to slip through the fingers of justice. Both Garland and Hart had sworn t..

Nick Carter Stories No. 141

Nicholas Carter

Nick Carter frowned while he read this communication, so suggestive of sanguinary designs. Had it been written by the driver of the limousine in which Waldmere was seen to depart with an unknown woman..

Shadow in the House

Sinclair Gluck

In the rococo reception-room its recent owner still held the center of the stage, that dominance now one of arresting tragedy rather than of personality. He lay flat on his back, limp and motionless, ..