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

Nick Carter, the celebrated private detective known for his cool logic and unflinching integrity, is drawn into a tangled web of high‑stakes gambling and missing money. A nervous Wall Street broker, James Wheeler, confides that twenty thousand dollars belonging to two orphaned heirs vanished during a daylight robbery, and that he has staked the same sum on a dubious horse race to try to recover it. The race in question, the Brooklyn Handicap, features Denver Bay, a dark‑coated colt whose odds look suspiciously favorable to a notorious track sharp. Carter senses a deeper plot and agrees to investigate before the children lose everything.

The story unfolds in the bustling streets of late‑19th‑century New York, where horse‑track intrigue collides with the cut‑throat world of finance. As Carter follows leads from shady bookmakers to the shadowy figures who may have fixed the race, he must untangle rumors, confront dangerous gamblers, and protect the innocent heirs from a costly gamble gone wrong. Readers are treated to a brisk, dialogue‑rich adventure that captures the grit and excitement of early detective fiction while keeping the mystery alive.