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by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
CHAPTER I. A SECRET CONFERENCE.
CHAPTER II. THE GOVERNMENT ENGINEER.
CHAPTER III. A CURIOUS CLEW.
CHAPTER IV. NICK CARTER’S DEDUCTIONS.
CHAPTER V. PAVING THE WAY.
CHAPTER VI. NICK SHOWS HIS HAND.
CHAPTER VII. INTO A TRAP.
CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN DILLON’S VISITOR.
CHAPTER IX. CHICK CARTER’S QUEST.
A bustling October afternoon at Washington’s Union Station sets the stage for a puzzling encounter. An unassuming old gentleman slips a cryptic instruction to a stranger, sending him toward a hotel where a hidden agenda awaits. The scene quickly shifts to the Treasury Building, where the same figure walks straight into Chief Welden’s office, flashing a card that bears the name of the famed New York sleuth, Nick Carter.
Carter is drawn into a covert government operation that promises to affect the very fate of the nation. As he follows the trail of secret messages and shadowy meetings, he must outwit both bureaucratic red tape and a network of unseen adversaries. The story weaves suspense with the classic hallmarks of Carter’s razor‑sharp intuition, inviting listeners to unravel the mystery alongside the detective, step by tense step.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (196K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Street & Smaith, 1914,copyright 1915.
Credits
David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library)
Release date
2022-05-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

Best known as the shared pen name behind the classic Nick Carter detective adventures, this byline helped shape one of the most popular dime-novel sleuths in American popular fiction. Rather than belonging to one writer, it stood for a long-running storytelling tradition built by multiple hands.
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A newspaperman turned prolific magazine fiction writer, he published fast-moving mysteries, adventure tales, and popular serials in the early 1900s. He also wrote under the name Charles Carey, a byline that appears on much of his best-known work.
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