Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
“I heard my name called just as I removed the receiver from its hook,” Nick explained. “The voice sounded like that of a woman, though I am not positive about it. Then came a single sharp crack, like the report of a revolver, or as if the telephone had dropped from the speaker...
“I heard my name called just as I removed the receiver from its hook,” Nick explained. “The voice sounded like that of a woman, though I am not positive about it. Then came a si...
2. CHAPTER II.Nick Carter now saw plainly that Mrs. Julia Clayton had suffered no bodily injury. That she was mentally affected, however, either crazed with horror, or in an abnormal conditio...
3. CHAPTER III.One familiar with the habits and methods of the famous detective might reasonably infer that he had some covert motive in doing so, some ulterior object to be attained by secrec...
4. CHAPTER IV.It was eight o’clock when Nick Carter left the Clayton residence. He departed without so much as a backward glance, as if he had no further interest in the house and its surroun...
5. CHAPTER V.Patsy Garvan had moved nearly as quickly as his quarry. It had taken him only a few moments to scale the high brick wall and assure himself that the inclosed grounds were desert...
6. CHAPTER VI.Patsy Garvan heard, with a thrill of dismay, the threatening commands that suddenly broke the silence behind him. He heard, too, a vicious oath that came with a wolfish growl fr...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was after ten o’clock that evening when Margate returned to the Clayton residence. He entered with a key by the way of the side door. A glance at the windows while approachin...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Nick Carter was called early to the Clayton residence the following morning. He was summoned by a frantic telephone call from Chester Clayton, informing him what had occurred th...
9. CHAPTER IX.Margate had removed his disguise and tossed it upon the table. That he had the famous detective helplessly in his power, he had not the shadow of a doubt. It had impelled him to...
10. CHAPTER XXVI.Before the hour for going to press arrived, two more attempts were made to prevent the Bulletin’s snapshots from reaching the public. The first of these was an endeavor to persu...
11. CHAPTER XXVII.Although Carroll tried hard to persuade him to make an abrupt exit from the town of Oldham immediately after the publication of the sensational snapshots, Hawley persisted in li...
12. CHAPTER XXVIII.So friendly was the mayor’s greeting that the Camera Chap thought, at first, that his honor could not be aware of the identity of his visitor. Surely the head of Oldham’s govern...
13. CHAPTER XXIX.Fred Carroll’s joy over the success of the _Bulletin’s_ police exposé was marred by the thought that the girl he loved was likely to suffer for the part she had played in it.
14. CHAPTER XXX.When the seven o’clock train for New York steamed out of Oldham, Chief of Police Hodgins stood on the station platform. He was there by order of the mayor. He saw Hawley get on...
15. CHAPTER XXXI.A day after the arrival of the Camera Chap in New York, a middle-aged man of exceedingly prosperous appearance entered the _Bulletin_ office, and handed a card to Fred Carroll,...