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Nicholas (House name) Carter
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.
59 Audiobooks
Nick Carter Stories No. 131, March 13, 1915: A fatal message; or, Nick Carter's slender clew
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips
A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
New Nick Carter weekly; No. 28. July 10, 1897; Nick Carter at the track; or, How he became a dead game sport.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 155, August 28, 1915: The Gordon Elopement; or, Nick Carter's Three of a Kind.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Bertram Lebhar
Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trail
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
Nick Carter Stories No. 139, May 8, 1915: The Pressing Peril
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips
With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 133, March 27, 1915: Won by Magic; or, Nick Carter's Mysterious Ear.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips
Nick Carter Stories No. 124, January 23, 1915: The girl kidnaper; or, Nick Carter's up-to-date clew.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins
A Broken Bond; Or, The Man Without Morals
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 136, April 17, 1915: The Man They Held Back
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips
New Nick Carter weekly no. 197: The little glass vial; or A beautiful blackmailer brought to bay
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 147, July 3, 1915: On Death's Trail; or, Nick Carter's Strangest Case
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
The Babbington case; Or, Nick Carter's strange quest
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 134, April 3, 1915; The Secret of Shangore; Or, Nick Carter Among the Spearmen
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Following a Chance Clew; Or, Nick Carter's Lucky Find
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Great Diamond Syndicate; Or, The Hardest Crew on Record
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Captain Sparkle, Pirate; Or, A Hard Man to Catch
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
A Cigarette Clew; Or, "Salted" For a Million
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Twin Mystery; Or, A Dashing Rescue
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 141, May 22, 1915: The duplicate night
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
A Sharper's Downfall; Or, Into the Net
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 135. April 10, 1915; Straight to the Goal; Or, Nick Carter's Queer Challenge
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 152, August 7, 1915: The Forced Crime; or, Nick Carter's Brazen Clew.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
Nick Carter Stories No. 149, July 17, 1915: A Network of Crime; or, Nick Carter's Tangled Skein.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
Out of Death's Shadow; Or, A Case Without a Precedent
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 150, July 24, 1915: The House of Fear; or, Nick Carter's Counterstroke.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
Nick Carter Stories No. 138 May 1, 1915; The Traitors of the Tropics; or, Nick Carter's Royal Flush
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 120, December 26, 1914: An uncanny revenge; or, Nick Carter and the mind murderer.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line Case
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
Nick Carter Stories No. 137, April 24, 1915: The Seal of Gijon; Or, Nick Carter's Ice-House Fight
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips
The Photographer's Evidence; Or, Clever but Crooked
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, A. L. Small
A Battle for Right; Or, A Clash of Wits
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
A Stolen Name; Or, The Man Who Defied Nick Carter
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Four-Fingered Glove; Or, The Cost of a Lie
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 156, September 4, 1915: Blood Will Tell; or, Nick Carter's Play in Politics
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Bertram Lebhar
Nick Carter Stories No. 154, August 21, 1915: The mask of death; or, Nick Carter's curious case.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Bertram Lebhar
Nick Carter Stories No. 160, October 2, 1915: The Yellow Label; or, Nick Carter and the Society Looters.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 140, May 15, 1915: The Melting-Pot
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
Nick Carter weekly No. 186, July 21, 1900: Nick Carter rescues a daughter; or, The junior partner's strange behavior.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 151, July 31, 1915: The Mystery of the Crossed Needles; or Nick Carter and the Yellow Tong
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston
Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, E. K. Nostwell
Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistant
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins
Under the Tiger's Claws; Or, A Struggle for the Right
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous Venture
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
Nick Carter Stories No. 145, June 19, 1915: An Unsolved Mystery; Or, Nick Carter's Goverment Case
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell
Hidden Foes; Or, A Fatal Miscalculation
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Snarled Identities; Or, A Desperate Tangle
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 159, September 25, 1915: Driven from cover; or, Nick Carter's double ruse.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Stolen Brain; Or, A Wonderful Crime
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Toying with fate; or, Nick Carter's narrow shave
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a Murder
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Alden F. Bradshaw
The Plot That Failed; or, When Men Conspire
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
The Man Without a Conscience; Or, From Rogue to Convict
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
New Nick Carter weekly, No. 11, March 13, 1897: Trim in the wilds; or, hunting a criminal on the dark continent
by Nicholas (House name) Carter
About the author
Used as a house name rather than a single personal identity, Nicholas Carter is closely tied to the hugely popular Nick Carter detective stories. The character was introduced in the late 19th century, and the name became associated with a steady stream of mysteries and adventures published for mass audiences.
Sources available here agree that these stories were produced by multiple writers, often anonymously, for commercial series and magazines. Reference works connect the character's beginnings to publisher Street & Smith and identify John R. Coryell as the creator of the original Nick Carter story, while later installments were continued by many other authors under the shared byline.
That makes "Nicholas Carter" less a conventional author biography than a window into how popular fiction was made in the dime-novel and pulp eras: fast-moving, serialized, and collaborative. For readers today, the name still carries the promise of brisk plots, disguises, conspiracies, and old-school detective fun.