TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Nicholas
AU  - Jenkins,Burke
AU  - Small,A.L.
TI  - Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Popular literature -- Periodicals
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals
N1  - Release date is 2022-08-22; Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine -- Ruby light [continued] -- A double trick; David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library); Originally published; United States: Privately printed, University Press, 1950
N2  - "Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a Million Ransom; or, Nick..." is a fiction work likely written in the early 20th century. The story follows the astute detective Nick Carter as he investigates the abduction of a young girl, Amy Madden, unveiling a nefarious plot entwined with deception and manipulation. Alongside his junior assistant, Patsy Garvan, Carter navigates through layers of intrigue, leading to a confrontation with a cunning gang.  The opening of this tale begins with Nick Carter spotting a woman who appears to be in distress in Central Park, which piques his interest as a detective. After assisting the woman, he soon realizes that her fainting spell may have been a ploy, coinciding with the disappearance of the nurse's charge, a child named Amy. As Carter pieces together the suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident alongside his assistant, they urgently set out to locate both the child and a woman linked to the deceitful scheme, implying the tensions and risks that lie ahead in their journey to thwart a ransom demand. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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ER  -