02482cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324501100014826400510025830000470030933600260035633700260038233800360040850000310044450501070047550801470058252011240072953400840185365300380193765300590197570000190203470000170205385600430207099900190211368803UtSlPG20260610134606.0mcr n260607r20221950utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCarter, Nicholasq(House name)10aNick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine. 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2022  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2022-08-220 aHalf a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine -- Ruby light [continued] -- A double trick.  aDavid Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cUnited States: Privately printed, University Press, 1950  aPopular literature -- Periodicals  aDetective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals1 aJenkins, Burke1 aSmall, A. L.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68803  c109607d109607