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THE MASK OF DEATH

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: ""Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He'll ferret out the truth and run down the rascals. He will recover your lost treasures, too, Mr. Strickland, one and all of them, take my word for it. If there is one man on earth who can accomplish it, Nick Carter is that one man. So pull yourself together, sir, and face this calamity man fashion. C...

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THE HOUSE OF FEAR, OR NICK CARTER'S COUNTERSTROKE

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "I say, shir! Can you let me have a match? "I think so." The last speaker was Nick Carter, the famous detective. The first was an erect, well-built, fashionably clad man, apparently in the forties and somewhat the worse for liquor. His crush hat had a rakish cant. His Inverness hung awry over his shoulders. His cravat had a disorderly twist, and his brown, Vandyke bear...

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A BROKEN BOND

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Behind a big rock which looked down over the wide, straggling road that ran upward through the mountains crouched a long, lean figure. Snuggled against his right shoulder was a rifle, and the bearded face beneath the broad-brimmed panama was turned toward the roadway below. The hot sun beat down remorselessly, and its blinding rays were reflected from the rocks. Persp...

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THE MAN WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE, OR, FROM ROGUE TO CONVICT

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "“Bureau of Secret Investigation.” Nick Carter glanced at the above sign over the door, an unpretentious and somewhat faded reminder of better days, while he descended the flight of stone steps leading into the basement offices of the Boston police department. The sunlight lay warm and bright in Pemberton Square at ten o’clock that May morning, shedding over the magnif...

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THE GREAT DIAMOND SYNDICATE, OR, THE HARDEST CREW ON RECORD

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "“Your uncle murdered! It seems incredible!” Nick Carter leaned back in his chair and looked at his visitor, dismay showing in his face. “It is too true, old friend, Uncle Alvin was murdered in his bed last night, and diamonds to the value of half a million dollars stolen from the house.” The speaker, Charley Maynard, was greatly excited. He was a young man who had arr...

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THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EVIDENCE, OR, CLEVER BUT CROOKED

NICHOLAS CARTER

A Canadian governor's daughter has been kidnapped, documents are missing, a murderous old friend appears, somebody's shooting up a saloon, a preacher falls to his death, an oil company dupes a farmer out of his land, and everybody knows that Nick Carter is on the case! (Goodreads) ...

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A BATTLE FOR THE RIGHT, OR, A CLASH OF WITS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Five men were playing cards in a room in the Old Pike Inn. It was a road house, on a well-traveled highway—a great favorite with automobiles—in one of the picturesque valleys that alternate with towering heights within easy motoring distance of New York City. The Old Pike Inn had its spacious verandas, its big restaurant, its smaller dining rooms for private parties, ...

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SNARLED IDENTITIES, OR, A DESPERATE TANGLE

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "“Nicholas Carter, and his first assistant, Chickering Carter, had risen early that morning, but not for the usual reason. It was a very unusual occasion in the great detective’s household, for he and Chick were actually going away for two weeks’ vacation in the Adirondacks. The train that was to carry the two to the Great North Woods was scheduled to leave shortly aft...

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A FATAL MESSAGE, OR, NICK CARTER'S SLENDER CREW

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Nick Carter leaned nearer to the wall and listened to what the two men were discussing. The wall was that of a booth in the café of the Shelby House. It was a partition of matched sheathing only, through which ordinary conversation in the adjoining booth could be easily overheard, and both men in this case spoke above an ordinary tone. Obviously, therefore, they were ...

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HIDDEN FOES, OR, A FATAL MISCALCULATION

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Nobody had heard the report of a pistol. There had been no disturbance; in fact, no audible altercation, no startling cry for help, or even a groan of sudden, terrible distress. The man lay there as motionless, nevertheless, as if felled by a thunderbolt. His life had been snuffed out like the flame of a candle by the fury of a whirlwind. Death had come upon him like ...

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UNDER THE TIGER'S CLAWS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his keen, grey eyes. “But that will not do, Nick,” protested Mr. Raymond Gilsey, with an immediate display of apprehension. “Not do, sir?” “It may not be what I want.” “Not what you want?” “Not exactly, Nick,” and Mr. Raymond Gilsey decisive...

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A STOLEN NAME, OR, THE MAN WHO DEFIED NICK CARTER

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Bare-Faced Jimmy, so-called gentleman crook, expert cracksman, and a master criminal in any department of the underworld to which he cared to devote his attention, leaned backward in his chair until it tilted against the wall behind him, blew a cloud of Perfecto smoke ceilingward, and remarked: “It will be the easiest thing in the world, Juno. If the objective point w...

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OUT OF DEATH'S SHADOW, OR, A CASE WITHOUT PRECEDENT

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "On the shady veranda of an old-fashioned Southern house, on the outskirts of St. Louis, two men in the prime of life were enjoying their cigars one fine morning. One, the younger, with a fair, full face and honest, gray eyes, after a long period of silence, said "To-morrow will decide her fate, Nick. You have worked up a strong case against her, but I am afraid of the...

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A WOMAN AT BAY, OR, A FIEND IN SKIRTS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "Four men were seated around a camp fire made of old railroad ties, over which a kettle was boiling merrily, where it hung from an improvised crane above the blaze. Around, on the ground, were scattered a various assortment of tin cans, some of which had been hammered more or less straight to serve for plates, and it was evident from the general appearance of things ar...

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WITH LINKS OF STEEL, OR, THE PERIL OF THE UNKNOWN

NICHOLAS CARTER

American adventure story from "the celebrated stories of Nick Carter's adventures, conceded to be among the best detective tales ever written." Excerpt: ""Mr. Venner, sir?" "Mr. Venner—yes, certainly. You will find him in his private office—that way, sir. The door to the right. Venner is in his private office, Joseph, is he not?" "I don't think so, Mr. Garside, unless he has ju...

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THE CRIME OF THE FRENCH CAFÉ

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: "There is a well-known French restaurant in the "Tenderloin" district which provides its patrons with small but elegantly appointed private dining-rooms. The restaurant occupies a corner house; and, though its reputation is not strictly first-class in some respects, its cook is an artist, and its wine cellar as good as the best. It has two entrances, and the one on the...

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CAPTAIN SPARKLE, PIRATE; OR, A HARD MAN TO CATCH

NICHOLAS CARTER

Excerpt: ""Mr. Maxwell Kane!" The announcement was made by Nick Carter's valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his master's study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indulge. Joseph had a wholesome respect for millionaires, and many a one of them came at one time and another to the detective for consultation; but it w...

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THE EUROPEANIZATION OF NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES

POGUNTKE, THOMAS / AYLOTT, NICHOLAS / CARTER, ELISABETH / LADRECH, ROBERT / LUTHER, KURT RICHARD

This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance. The Europeanization of National Political Parties is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the European Union on the internal organizational dynamics of national political parties. It draws on the results of a major, cross-national pr...

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KING'S MEN CROW

NICHOLAS CARTER

A historical adventure novel during the First English Civil War featuring two military officers who battle on and off the field in both love and war. August, 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same....

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HARVEST OF SWORDS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Two British military captains are rivals in love and combat in this historical adventure novel set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. Yet this time their greatest battles, fought on both land and se...

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BLACK TOM'S RED ARMY

NICHOLAS CARTER

Rival soldiers face off in the final battle of the First English Civil War in this historical adventure. It is more than a year since printer’s apprentice turned Parliamentarian soldier William Sparrow and his royalist rival Hugo Telling last came to blows. Parliament’s armies, bruised beaten and humiliated despite their ever increasing numerical advantage, have been recons...

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STAND BY THE COLOURS

NICHOLAS CARTER

Loyalty is tested when brothers find themselves on opposing sides in this historical adventure set during the English Civil War. In the opening days of 1644, there seems to be little hope for Parliament’s soldiers. To William Sparrow and his men, the woods of Dorset are a snow-covered sanctuary—even on Christmas Day—from the horrors of Penmethock and pursuit by the King’s m...

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