Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
“Extraordinary--that doesn’t half express it. I know of no word that would. To some extent, Nick, at least, men’s motives are usually discernible in their conduct. But in this case--why, there was nothing to it. It is utterly inexplicable. It was like a horrid dream, a hideous...
“Extraordinary--that doesn’t half express it. I know of no word that would. To some extent, Nick, at least, men’s motives are usually discernible in their conduct. But in this c...
2. CHAPTER II.Nick Carter responded immediately to Clayton’s urgent message. It was half past eleven when he entered the magnificent new Westgate, and almost the first person he saw in the sp...
3. CHAPTER III.The incidents depicted had transpired quickly. Only about half an hour had passed since the extraordinary crime was discovered, assuming it to have been a crime, rather than the...
4. CHAPTER IV.Their investigations in the Hotel Westgate had ended abruptly temporarily some time before. They had been productive of no more than has appeared. No additional clews were disco...
5. CHAPTER V.Patsy Garvan never did things by halves. Soon after six o’clock that evening a dapper young man of remarkably inoffensive aspect, barring a somewhat fierce upward twist of his m...
6. CHAPTER VI.Patsy Garvan realized on the instant that he had been trapped; that he was in wrong, as well as right; that the man who now held him up must have suspected something threatening...
7. CHAPTER VII.These were Nick Carter’s brief instructions to Chick, in fact, when he left his Madison Avenue residence at seven o’clock that evening, to seek an interview with the woman who,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A taxicab was waiting at the curbing in front of the house, and Nick was momentarily surprised when he entered his library. Its only occupant was the visitor who had come in the...
9. CHAPTER IX.It was more than an hour previous to the episodes last described, when Chick Carter responded to Nick’s brief instructions from Mrs. Clayton’s residence, and then set out post-h...
10. CHAPTER XVI.Patrolman John Hicks, of the Oldham police force, was a fairly vigilant guardian of the law--in the daytime. But when his turn came to do night duty, which happened regularly ev...
11. CHAPTER XVII.There was no mistaking Dutch Louie’s place, for it was the only restaurant on the block; moreover, the name of the proprietor was emblazoned in white letters on a flaring red gl...
12. CHAPTER XVIII.“I really think we’ve got enough already,” Carroll replied anxiously. “After what you’ve just done, old man, I’m beginning to believe that you can get away with anything; but wh...
13. CHAPTER XIX.Although the _Bulletin_ was not a profusely illustrated newspaper, it maintained a photo-engraving plant of its own. Carroll had installed this department when he first acquired...