NICK CARTER: A Triple Crime

by Nicholas Carter

NICK A Triple Crimeby "Nicholas Carter"NICK CARTER, New Magnet Library #1023Now in public domain.Kindle edition typeset and published in 2010 by Gideonfell Books, Ltd.Fraud, Forgery, and MURDER--a "triple crime."Nick Carter is hired by the head of an insurance company to foil to plots of an insurance-swindling gang, and along the way find murder, intrigue, bribes, death traps, and even a "biological threat," before he wraps of this case.Originally published in 1901, this is a classic DIME-NOVEL detective adventure, featuring the most famous private investigator of his day, NICK CARTER.EDITOR'S Before there were the "pulps" and such fantastic heroes as "Doc Savage" and "The Shadow" there were "dime novels" and "Nick Carter" was the action hero who commanded America's attention. For a time, he even supplanted in people's mind SHERLOCK HOLMES as the "world's greatest detective."Author "Nicholas Carter" was an in-house name used by a variety of writers who supplied a steady stream of westerns, mysteries, and romances for the publishing house. This Nick Carter dime novel has been attributed to JOHN RUSSELL COYRELL.

66 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 2, 2010

About the author

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Nicholas Carter is the name of a popular fictional detective, who first appeared in a dime novel entitled The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square in 1886. Publishers Street & Smith of New York published over 1,000 Nicholas Carter books, none of which carried author credits, although it is known that the first was by John R. Coryell, and many of the earliest volumes were by Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, Thomas C. Harbaugh and Eugene T. Sawyer. The Nicholas Carter name was treated as a pseudonym, and many volumes were written in the first person. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective.

Reviews

[Mark Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not a book I would ordinarily have read on my own. It was recommended in an online course on mystery and suspense writing. It is one of the classic dime novels which, while not literary masterpieces themselves, were critical in developing the genre. This may well be the best example.

[Dave J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read