Nicholas (House name) Carter Audiobooks

Nicholas (House name) Carter

Best known as the house name behind the wildly popular Nick Carter detective stories, this byline helped fuel one of the longest-running phenomena in American dime-novel fiction. It came to stand for fast-moving mysteries, cliffhangers, and a steady stream of adventures published for a mass audience.

About the author

"Nicholas Carter" was not a single writer but a house pseudonym used for the Nick Carter detective stories, a hugely successful series launched by Street & Smith in the late 19th century. The character first appeared in The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime at Madison Square Garden in 1886, and the name soon became closely tied to popular American pulp and dime-novel publishing.

John R. Coryell is widely credited with writing the first Nick Carter story, and many other writers later contributed to the series under the same shared name. Because it was a house name, the exact author of any given title is not always easy to confirm, but the byline became famous in its own right and helped make Nick Carter one of the era's most enduring fictional detectives.

For readers today, "Nicholas Carter" represents a style of storytelling as much as an individual author: brisk plots, sensational cases, and the serialized excitement that kept generations of readers coming back for the next installment.

Nicholas (House name) Carter

59 Audiobooks

Nick Carter Stories No. 133, March 27, 1915: Won by Magic; or, Nick Carter's Mysterious Ear.

Nick Carter Stories No. 155, August 28, 1915: The Gordon Elopement; or, Nick Carter's Three of a Kind.

A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts

New Nick Carter weekly; No. 28. July 10, 1897; Nick Carter at the track; or, How he became a dead game sport.

Nick Carter Stories No. 139, May 8, 1915: The Pressing Peril

Nick Carter Stories No. 131, March 13, 1915: A fatal message; or, Nick Carter's slender clew

New Nick Carter weekly no. 197: The little glass vial; or A beautiful blackmailer brought to bay

With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown

Nick Carter Stories No. 136, April 17, 1915: The Man They Held Back

A Broken Bond; Or, The Man Without Morals

Nick Carter Stories No. 134, April 3, 1915; The Secret of Shangore; Or, Nick Carter Among the Spearmen

Nick Carter Stories No. 124, January 23, 1915: The girl kidnaper; or, Nick Carter's up-to-date clew.

The Babbington case; Or, Nick Carter's strange quest

Nick Carter Stories No. 149, July 17, 1915: A Network of Crime; or, Nick Carter's Tangled Skein.

Following a Chance Clew; Or, Nick Carter's Lucky Find

The Great Diamond Syndicate; Or, The Hardest Crew on Record

Nick Carter Stories No. 152, August 7, 1915: The Forced Crime; or, Nick Carter's Brazen Clew.

Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trail

The Twin Mystery; Or, A Dashing Rescue

Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.

Nick Carter Stories No. 147, July 3, 1915: On Death's Trail; or, Nick Carter's Strangest Case

The Photographer's Evidence; Or, Clever but Crooked

Nick Carter Stories No. 137, April 24, 1915: The Seal of Gijon; Or, Nick Carter's Ice-House Fight

Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line Case

Nick Carter Stories No. 145, June 19, 1915: An Unsolved Mystery; Or, Nick Carter's Goverment Case

Nick Carter weekly No. 186, July 21, 1900: Nick Carter rescues a daughter; or, The junior partner's strange behavior.

A Cigarette Clew; Or, "Salted" For a Million

Captain Sparkle, Pirate; Or, A Hard Man to Catch

A Stolen Name; Or, The Man Who Defied Nick Carter

Nick Carter Stories No. 156, September 4, 1915: Blood Will Tell; or, Nick Carter's Play in Politics

Nick Carter Stories No. 141, May 22, 1915: The duplicate night

Nick Carter Stories No. 160, October 2, 1915: The Yellow Label; or, Nick Carter and the Society Looters.

Nick Carter Stories No. 120, December 26, 1914: An uncanny revenge; or, Nick Carter and the mind murderer.

Out of Death's Shadow; Or, A Case Without a Precedent

Nick Carter Stories No. 151, July 31, 1915: The Mystery of the Crossed Needles; or Nick Carter and the Yellow Tong

Nick Carter Stories No. 135. April 10, 1915; Straight to the Goal; Or, Nick Carter's Queer Challenge

A Sharper's Downfall; Or, Into the Net

Under the Tiger's Claws; Or, A Struggle for the Right

Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.

Nick Carter Stories No. 154, August 21, 1915: The mask of death; or, Nick Carter's curious case.

A Battle for Right; Or, A Clash of Wits

Nick Carter Stories No. 150, July 24, 1915: The House of Fear; or, Nick Carter's Counterstroke.

Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head

Nick Carter Stories No. 138 May 1, 1915; The Traitors of the Tropics; or, Nick Carter's Royal Flush

Hidden Foes; Or, A Fatal Miscalculation

Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous Venture

The Four-Fingered Glove; Or, The Cost of a Lie

Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.

Nick Carter Stories No. 140, May 15, 1915: The Melting-Pot

Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistant

Snarled Identities; Or, A Desperate Tangle

Nick Carter Stories No. 159, September 25, 1915: Driven from cover; or, Nick Carter's double ruse.

The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

Toying with fate; or, Nick Carter's narrow shave

Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a Murder

The Stolen Brain; Or, A Wonderful Crime

The Man Without a Conscience; Or, From Rogue to Convict

The Plot That Failed; or, When Men Conspire

New Nick Carter weekly, No. 11, March 13, 1897: Trim in the wilds; or, hunting a criminal on the dark continent

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