In this tense 1915 Nick Carter adventure, a secret summons from the president sends the detective to Washington, D.C., where the theft of top-secret coastal defense plans threatens national security itself. Chief Welden of the U.S. Secret Service explains that trusted engineer Harold Garland discovered his portfolio had been switched with a dummy packet of blank paper, a brazen act that suggests inside knowledge and possible foreign espionage. Nick quickly takes command of the inquiry, que...

Nick Carter's latest New York case opens with a frantic Fifth Avenue appeal that seems like a simple abduction, but quickly reveals a tangle of false names, hidden errands, and dangerous deception. When the missing woman is linked to Lord Waldmere, the Imperial Loan Company, and a shady businessman named Stuart Floyd, Nick calls in Chick and Patsy and begins tracing a scheme built on stolen jewels, skimmed money, and carefully planted lies. By following Floyd through secret meetings and a ...

Nick Carter's latest case plunges him into fogbound rivers, hidden rooms, and a conspiracy that could decide the fate of a kingdom. When a collision on the Hudson lets kidnappers snatch two prisoners from his launch, Nick learns that Prince Marcos must reach Joyalita by the eighteenth to stop an annexation plot—and that ruthless men like Larry Dugan, Foxey, Pet Carlin, Don Solado, and Prince Miguel will do anything to delay him. At Crownledge, the mystery deepens as Claudia Solado fears fo...

The Melting Pot opens with Nick Carter facing an old enemy whose hatred has only sharpened with time. Stuart Floyd, once exposed as a crook, now vows revenge, while the long-buried Waldmere scandal resurfaces in a new and more dangerous form. When a priceless family plate collection vanishes during shipment from England to America, Nick is drawn into a case of forged papers, false identities, and hidden betrayal that points to someone inside the Waldmere household. Questioning truckmen, ch...

Summoned from New York by a cryptic telegram, Nick Carter arrives in Boston to investigate the supposed heart failure of wealthy Samuel Rogers—and immediately senses murder beneath the surface. A hidden hypodermic point, a broken syringe, and a vial of deadly South American poison reveal that the death was staged to look natural, while the family's inheritance terms and Dr. Lord's impending marriage expose a deadly motive. As Nick probes the anxious young heir, he uncovers a secret wife, a...

At a glittering masked ball in the Carrington mansion, Nick Carter and Chick stand guard amid costumed guests, priceless jewels, and a danger hidden beneath the elegance. Nick is drawn to two women dressed alike as Night, and when one meets a masked toreador and slips away, the evening's glamour gives way to a baffling disappearance involving Archie Waldmere, his wife Mollie, and a forged summons that may have been designed to split husband and wife apart. As Nick probes deeper, he discove...

Nick Carter arrives at the Borden Building on a cryptic summons and steps into the aftermath of a murder that is anything but straightforward. In the offices of Bridgely & Byke, he finds young stenographer Estelle Langdon dead from a bullet wound, with the anxious office boy, the clerk Oscar Gay, and the guarded junior partner Victor Redway all entangled in the scene. What first looks like a possible suicide quickly becomes a puzzle of missing motives, contradictory behavior, and telling p...

In Kimberley, young detective Trim sets out to catch the elusive criminal Jemmy Miller, only to learn that the case reaches back to a darker scandal: a brutal strangler named Mulvey, an ex-convict believed to have vanished into the African interior and found sanctuary among the Narugas. Warned that this hidden refuge has become a haven for desperate men, Trim refuses to wait while justice fails and prepares an expedition into dangerous country with his steadfast companion Dobbin. What foll...

The Third Nick Carter MEGAPACK® assembles 5 more classic mystery novels by the famous detective. Included this time are:OUT OF DEATH’S SHADOWA WOMAN AT BAYWITH LINKS OF STEELCAPTAIN SPARKLE, PIRATETHE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EVIDENCEIf you enjoy this installment in the MEGAPACK® series, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press MEGAPACK" to see the 400+ additional entries in the series, covering not just mysteries, but science fiction, adventur...

Nicholas Carter is the name of a popular fictional detective, who first appeared in a dime novel entitled The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square in 1886. Publishers Street & Smith of New York published over 1,000 Nicholas Carter books, none of which carried author credits, although it is known that the first was by John R. Coryell, and many of the earliest volumes were by Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, Thomas C. Harbaugh and Eugene T. Sawyer. The Nicholas Cart...

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. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and fo...

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 reconstituted as the New Model Army. Sparrow, veteran of a dozen battles, sieges and scrapes, is exp...