Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
The telephone communication was from Arthur Gordon, the prominent New York banker and broker, then a candidate for election to Congress on the Fusion reform ticket--a communication so sensational in character and so imbued with alarm and anxiety on the part of the speaker, tha...
The telephone communication was from Arthur Gordon, the prominent New York banker and broker, then a candidate for election to Congress on the Fusion reform ticket--a communicat...
2. CHAPTER II.Nick Carter took in with a few swift glances those important features of the scene already mentioned. Instead of immediately beginning a more careful inspection, however, he tur...
3. CHAPTER III.The two officers had arrived with their prisoner several minutes before, bringing also the evidence mentioned by Phelan. Despite the persuasive arguments of the commissioner, ho...
4. CHAPTER IV.Nick Carter easily won the commissioner to his own views, and he then returned at top speed to the Columbus Avenue flat. None could have realized more keenly that time was of va...
5. CHAPTER V.Lying on the table were the bloodstained articles belonging to Arthur Gordon, the disjointed jimmy, and also the handkerchief which Nick had dipped in the blood of the murdered...
6. CHAPTER VI.It was after four o’clock when Patsy Garvan emerged into Madison Avenue to begin the work assigned him, starting from home somewhat in advance of Nick and Chick, and heading imm...
7. CHAPTER VII.Nick Carter did not hurry to arrive at the suburban residence of Mr. John Madison. He hardly expected, in fact, to find him at home before early evening; but he wanted to see hi...
8. CHAPTER VIII.John Madison had sprung to his feet, uttering a cry, vainly attempting to prevent the lightninglike assault. But it had been made so quickly and with such vicious determination...
9. CHAPTER IX.Nick Carter needed to hear no more than the significant remarks already made, nor really needed to have heard them, in fact, to convince him that his earlier suspicions and dedu...
10. CHAPTER XII.During the two hours in which Hawley had been confined in a cell at police headquarters, waiting to be taken to court, Gale had suggested to Chief of Police Hodgins that it woul...
11. CHAPTER XIII.“I suppose you are going to get after those fellows now and send them both to jail for conspiracy,” said Fred Carroll to Hawley, as he sat chatting in the _Bulletin_ office half...
12. CHAPTER XIV.The Camera Chap watched the puzzled face of the _Bulletin’s_ editor as the latter pondered on his rash proposal. “Do I get the job, Fred?” he inquired eagerly. “May I consider m...
13. CHAPTER XV.“Nevertheless, I’m going to turn it down,” Carroll declared firmly. “I won’t hear of your doing this thing, I’m not going to have it on my conscience that I was the cause of you...