Nick Carter Weekly No. 186, July 21, 1900: Nick Carter Rescues a Daughter; Or, The Junior Partner's Strange Behavior.
1900
Nick Carter Weekly No. 186, July 21, 1900: Nick Carter Rescues a Daughter; Or, The Junior Partner's Strange Behavior.
1900
In the sweltering summer of 1900, the famous detective Nick Carter receives a cryptic summons to a law office, where he discovers the lifeless body of Estelle Langdon in room 59 of the Borden Building. The two men present when the body was found, the smoldering Oscar Gay and the strangely nervous junior partner Victor Redway, each harbor secrets that could hang them. As Carter digs deeper into the dead woman's past, he uncovers a tangle of jealous lovers, betrayed trusts, and a business partnership poisoned by something far darker than greed. The junior partner's "strange behavior" may be the key to solving this murder, or the perfect cover for a killer still breathing. This is Nick Carter at his finest: sharp, relentless, and always three moves ahead of the criminals who think they're untouchable. For readers who crave the raw, pulpy thrills of early American detective fiction, where justice arrives in cheap paper packages and heroes are made of sharper stuff than the villains.
