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100 1 _aCarter, Nicholas
_q(House name)
245 1 0 _aNick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-08-22
505 0 _aHalf a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine -- Ruby light [continued] -- A double trick.
508 _aDavid Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Privately printed, University Press, 1950
653 _aPopular literature -- Periodicals
653 _aDetective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals
700 1 _aJenkins, Burke
700 1 _aSmall, A. L.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68803
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