Chapter I: Front Matter

NICK CARTER STORIES

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_Not a Dull Book in This List_

Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should be--behind the bars.

The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories
than any other single person.

Following is a list of the best Nick Carter stories. They have been
selected with extreme care, and we unhesitatingly recommend each of them
as being fully as interesting as any detective story between cloth
covers which sells at ten times the price.

If you do not know Nick Carter, buy a copy of any of the New Magnet
Library books, and get acquainted. He will surprise and delight you.

_ALL TITLES ALWAYS IN PRINT_

850--Wanted: A Clew By Nicholas Carter 851--A Tangled Skein By Nicholas Carter 852--The Bullion Mystery By Nicholas Carter 853--The Man of Riddles By Nicholas Carter 854--A Miscarriage of Justice By Nicholas Carter 855--The Gloved Hand By Nicholas Carter 856--Spoilers and the Spoils By Nicholas Carter 857--The Deeper Game By Nicholas Carter 858--Bolts from Blue Skies By Nicholas Carter 859--Unseen Foes By Nicholas Carter 860--Knaves in High Places By Nicholas Carter 861--The Microbe of Crime By Nicholas Carter 862--In the Toils of Fear By Nicholas Carter 863--A Heritage of Trouble By Nicholas Carter 864--Called to Account By Nicholas Carter 865--The Just and the Unjust By Nicholas Carter 866--Instinct at Fault By Nicholas Carter 867--A Rogue Worth Trapping By Nicholas Carter 868--A Rope of Slender Threads By Nicholas Carter 869--The Last Call By Nicholas Carter 870--The Spoils of Chance By Nicholas Carter 871--A Struggle With Destiny By Nicholas Carter 872--The Slave of Crime By Nicholas Carter 873--The Crook’s Blind By Nicholas Carter 874--A Rascal of Quality By Nicholas Carter 875--With Shackles of Fire By Nicholas Carter 876--The Man Who Changed Faces By Nicholas Carter 877--The Fixed Alibi By Nicholas Carter 878--Out With the Tide By Nicholas Carter 879--The Soul Destroyers By Nicholas Carter 880--The Wages of Rascality By Nicholas Carter 881--Birds of Prey By Nicholas Carter 882--When Destruction Threatens By Nicholas Carter 883--The Keeper of Black Hounds By Nicholas Carter 884--The Door of Doubt By Nicholas Carter 885--The Wolf Within By Nicholas Carter 886--A Perilous Parole By Nicholas Carter 887--The Trail of the Fingerprints By Nicholas Carter 888--Dodging the Law By Nicholas Carter 889--A Crime in Paradise By Nicholas Carter 890--On the Ragged Edge By Nicholas Carter 891--The Red God of Tragedy By Nicholas Carter 892--The Man Who Paid By Nicholas Carter 893--The Blind Man’s Daughter By Nicholas Carter 894--One Object in Life By Nicholas Carter 895--As a Crook Sows By Nicholas Carter 896--In Record Time By Nicholas Carter 897--Held in Suspense By Nicholas Carter 898--The $100,000 Kiss By Nicholas Carter 899--Just One Slip By Nicholas Carter 900--On a Million-dollar Trail By Nicholas Carter 901--A Weird Treasure By Nicholas Carter 902--The Middle Link By Nicholas Carter 903--To the Ends of the Earth By Nicholas Carter 904--When Honors Pall By Nicholas Carter 905--The Yellow Brand By Nicholas Carter 906--A New Serpent in Eden By Nicholas Carter 907--When Brave Men Tremble By Nicholas Carter 908--A Test of Courage By Nicholas Carter 909--Where Peril Beckons By Nicholas Carter 910--The Gargoni Girdle By Nicholas Carter 911--Rascals & Co By Nicholas Carter 912--Too Late to Talk By Nicholas Carter 913--Satan’s Apt Pupil By Nicholas Carter 914--The Girl Prisoner By Nicholas Carter 915--The Danger of Folly By Nicholas Carter 916--One Shipwreck Too Many By Nicholas Carter 917--Scourged by Fear By Nicholas Carter 918--The Red Plague By Nicholas Carter 919--Scoundrels Rampant By Nicholas Carter 920--From Clew to Clew By Nicholas Carter 921--When Rogues Conspire By Nicholas Carter 922--Twelve in a Grave By Nicholas Carter 923--The Great Opium Case By Nicholas Carter 924--A Conspiracy of Rumors By Nicholas Carter 925--A Klondike Claim By Nicholas Carter 926--The Evil Formula By Nicholas Carter 927--The Man of Many Faces By Nicholas Carter 928--The Great Enigma By Nicholas Carter 929--The Burden of Proof By Nicholas Carter 930--The Stolen Brain By Nicholas Carter 931--A Titled Counterfeiter By Nicholas Carter 932--The Magic Necklace By Nicholas Carter 933--’Round the World for a Quarter By Nicholas Carter 934--Over the Edge of the World By Nicholas Carter 935--In the Grip of Fate By Nicholas Carter 936--The Case of Many Clews By Nicholas Carter 937--The Sealed Door By Nicholas Carter 938--Nick Carter and the Green Goods Men By Nicholas Carter 939--The Man Without a Will By Nicholas Carter 940--Tracked Across the Atlantic By Nicholas Carter 941--A Clew From the Unknown By Nicholas Carter 942--The Crime of a Countess By Nicholas Carter 943--A Mixed Up Mess By Nicholas Carter 944--The Great Money Order Swindle By Nicholas Carter 945--The Adder’s Brood By Nicholas Carter 946--A Wall Street Haul By Nicholas Carter 947--For a Pawned Crown By Nicholas Carter 948--Sealed Orders By Nicholas Carter 949--The Hate That Kills By Nicholas Carter 950--The American Marquis By Nicholas Carter 951--The Needy Nine By Nicholas Carter 952--Fighting Against Millions By Nicholas Carter 953--Outlaws of the Blue By Nicholas Carter 954--The Old Detective’s Pupil By Nicholas Carter 955--Found in the Jungle By Nicholas Carter 956--The Mysterious Mail Robbery By Nicholas Carter 957--Broken Bars By Nicholas Carter 958--A Fair Criminal By Nicholas Carter 959--Won by Magic By Nicholas Carter 960--The Piano Box Mystery By Nicholas Carter 961--The Man They Held Back By Nicholas Carter 962--A Millionaire Partner By Nicholas Carter 963--A Pressing Peril By Nicholas Carter 964--An Australian Klondyke By Nicholas Carter 965--The Sultan’s Pearls By Nicholas Carter 966--The Double Shuffle Club By Nicholas Carter 967--Paying the Price By Nicholas Carter 968--A Woman’s Hand By Nicholas Carter 969--A Network of Crime By Nicholas Carter 970--At Thompson’s Ranch By Nicholas Carter 971--The Crossed Needles By Nicholas Carter 972--The Diamond Mine Case By Nicholas Carter 973--Blood Will Tell By Nicholas Carter 974--An Accidental Password By Nicholas Carter 975--The Crook’s Bauble By Nicholas Carter 976--Two Plus Two By Nicholas Carter 977--The Yellow Label By Nicholas Carter 978--The Clever Celestial By Nicholas Carter 979--The Amphitheater Plot By Nicholas Carter 980--Gideon Drexel’s Millions By Nicholas Carter 981--Death in Life By Nicholas Carter 982--A Stolen Identity By Nicholas Carter 983--Evidence by Telephone By Nicholas Carter 984--The Twelve Tin Boxes By Nicholas Carter 985--Clew Against Clew By Nicholas Carter 986--Lady Velvet By Nicholas Carter 987--Playing a Bold Game By Nicholas Carter 988--A Dead Man’s Grip By Nicholas Carter 989--Snarled Identities By Nicholas Carter 990--A Deposit Vault Puzzle By Nicholas Carter 991--The Crescent Brotherhood By Nicholas Carter 992--The Stolen Pay Train By Nicholas Carter 993--The Sea Fox By Nicholas Carter 994--Wanted by Two Clients By Nicholas Carter 995--The Van Alstine Case By Nicholas Carter 996--Check No. 777 By Nicholas Carter 997--Partners in Peril By Nicholas Carter 998--Nick Carter’s Clever Protégé By Nicholas Carter 999--The Sign of the Crossed Knives By Nicholas Carter 1000--The Man Who Vanished By Nicholas Carter 1001--A Battle for the Right By Nicholas Carter 1002--A Game of Craft By Nicholas Carter 1003--Nick Carter’s Retainer By Nicholas Carter 1004--Caught in the Toils By Nicholas Carter 1005--A Broken Bond By Nicholas Carter 1006--The Crime of the French Café By Nicholas Carter 1007--The Man Who Stole Millions By Nicholas Carter 1008--The Twelve Wise Men By Nicholas Carter 1009--Hidden Foes By Nicholas Carter 1010--A Gamblers’ Syndicate By Nicholas Carter 1011--A Chance Discovery By Nicholas Carter 1012--Among the Counterfeiters By Nicholas Carter 1013--A Threefold Disappearance By Nicholas Carter 1014--At Odds With Scotland Yard By Nicholas Carter 1015--A Princess of Crime By Nicholas Carter 1016--Found on the Beach By Nicholas Carter 1017--A Spinner of Death By Nicholas Carter 1018--The Detective’s Pretty Neighbor By Nicholas Carter 1019--A Bogus Clew By Nicholas Carter 1020--The Puzzle of Five Pistols By Nicholas Carter 1021--The Secret of the Marble Mantel By Nicholas Carter 1022--A Bite of an Apple By Nicholas Carter 1023--A Triple Crime By Nicholas Carter 1024--The Stolen Race Horse By Nicholas Carter 1025--Wildfire By Nicholas Carter 1026--A _Herald_ Personal By Nicholas Carter 1027--The Finger of Suspicion By Nicholas Carter 1028--The Crimson Clue By Nicholas Carter 1029--Nick Carter Down East By Nicholas Carter 1030--The Chain of Clues By Nicholas Carter 1031--A Victim of Circumstances By Nicholas Carter 1032--Brought to Bay By Nicholas Carter 1033--The Dynamite Trap By Nicholas Carter 1034--A Scrap of Black Lace By Nicholas Carter 1035--The Woman of Evil By Nicholas Carter 1036--A Legacy of Hate By Nicholas Carter 1037--A Trusted Rogue By Nicholas Carter 1038--Man Against Man By Nicholas Carter 1039--The Demons of the Night By Nicholas Carter 1040--The Brotherhood of Death By Nicholas Carter 1041--At the Knife’s Point By Nicholas Carter 1042--A Cry for Help By Nicholas Carter 1043--A Stroke of Policy By Nicholas Carter 1044--Hounded to Death By Nicholas Carter 1045--A Bargain in Crime By Nicholas Carter 1046--The Fatal Prescription By Nicholas Carter 1047--The Man of Iron By Nicholas Carter 1048--An Amazing Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter 1049--The Chain of Evidence By Nicholas Carter 1050--Paid with Death By Nicholas Carter 1051--A Fight for a Throne By Nicholas Carter 1052--The Woman of Steel By Nicholas Carter 1053--The Seal of Death By Nicholas Carter 1054--The Human Fiend By Nicholas Carter 1055--A Desperate Chance By Nicholas Carter 1056--A Chase in the Dark By Nicholas Carter 1057--The Snare and the Game By Nicholas Carter 1058--The Murray Hill Mystery By Nicholas Carter 1059--Nick Carter’s Close Call By Nicholas Carter 1060--The Missing Cotton King By Nicholas Carter 1061--A Game of Plots By Nicholas Carter 1062--The Prince of Liars By Nicholas Carter 1063--The Man at the Window By Nicholas Carter 1064--The Red League By Nicholas Carter 1065--The Price of a Secret By Nicholas Carter 1066--The Worst Case on Record By Nicholas Carter 1067--From Peril to Peril By Nicholas Carter 1068--The Seal of Silence By Nicholas Carter 1069--Nick Carter’s Chinese Puzzle By Nicholas Carter 1070--A Blackmailer’s Bluff By Nicholas Carter 1071--Heard in the Dark By Nicholas Carter 1072--A Checkmated Scoundrel By Nicholas Carter 1073--The Cashier’s Secret By Nicholas Carter 1074--Behind a Mask By Nicholas Carter 1075--The Cloak of Guilt By Nicholas Carter 1076--Two Villains in One By Nicholas Carter 1077--The Hot Air Clue By Nicholas Carter 1078--Run to Earth By Nicholas Carter 1079--The Certified Check By Nicholas Carter 1080--Weaving the Web By Nicholas Carter 1081--Beyond Pursuit By Nicholas Carter 1082--The Claws of the Tiger By Nicholas Carter 1083--Driven From Cover By Nicholas Carter 1084--A Deal in Diamonds By Nicholas Carter 1085--The Wizard of the Cue By Nicholas Carter 1086--A Race for Ten Thousand By Nicholas Carter 1087--The Criminal Link By Nicholas Carter 1088--The Red Signal By Nicholas Carter 1089--The Secret Panel By Nicholas Carter 1090--A Bonded Villain By Nicholas Carter 1091--A Move in the Dark By Nicholas Carter 1092--Against Desperate Odds By Nicholas Carter 1093--The Telltale Photographs By Nicholas Carter 1094--The Ruby Pin By Nicholas Carter 1095--The Queen of Diamonds By Nicholas Carter 1096--A Broken Trail By Nicholas Carter 1097--An Ingenious Stratagem By Nicholas Carter 1098--A Sharper’s Downfall By Nicholas Carter 1099--A Race Track Gamble By Nicholas Carter 1100--Without a Clew By Nicholas Carter 1101--The Council of Death By Nicholas Carter 1102--The Hole in the Vault By Nicholas Carter 1103--In Death’s Grip By Nicholas Carter 1104--A Great Conspiracy By Nicholas Carter 1105--The Guilty Governor By Nicholas Carter 1106--A Ring of Rascals By Nicholas Carter 1107--A Masterpiece of Crime By Nicholas Carter

A Sharper’s Downfall

OR,

INTO THE NET

BY

NICHOLAS CARTER

Author of the celebrated stories of Nick Carter’s adventures,
which are published exclusively in the NEW MAGNET LIBRARY,
conceded to be among the best detective tales ever written.

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