NICK CARTER: 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 NOTE: 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.
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