NICK CARTER: The Man Who Vanished

by Nicholas Carter

an APRIL FOOL'S TRICK or a $100,000 SWINDLE?

THE MAN WHO VANISHED
a NICK CARTER dime-novel DETECTIVE ADVENTURE
by "Nicholas Carter"

First published in NICK CARTER WEEKLY, May 21, 1910

Kindle edition hand-typed, formated, and published by Gideonfell Books Ltd. February 2010

CONTENTS
CHAPTER A Woman's Crafty Game
CHAPTER The Changed Plates
CHAPTER The Missing Head Clerk
CHAPTER On The Trail
CHAPTER An Elusive Knave
CHAPTER The Slippery Trick
CHAPTER More About Dupont
CHAPTER A Double Game
CHAPTER Closing In
CHAPTER Nick's Final Move

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 30, 2010

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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

[Mack · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Dime Novels. Something like a 1930s movie plot, these books were made for a new and naive public that was hungry for the joys of reading. To we who have seen thousands of plots on TV and in books, it seems silly, but for its time, this was a good read.