Project Gutenberg 2022-08-06 Public domain in the USA. 132 Carter, Nicholas (House name) Carter, Nick Toying with fate; or, Nick Carter's narrow shave $aUnited States :$bStreet & Smith,$c1903. New magnet library, no. 835 David Edwards, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Toying with Fate; or, Nick Carter's Narrow Shave" by Nicholas Carter is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. The book follows the famed detective Nick Carter as he becomes involved in a murder mystery that revolves around a recently released convict named Alfred Lawrence. The narrative opens with an old man wandering the streets of New York City, revealing his tragic past and hinting at a deeper conspiracy tied to his wrongful imprisonment. The opening of the novel introduces an aged and weary man, newly released from Sing Sing Prison, who is haunted by his tragic history and the memories associated with a long-abandoned house. After he is found murdered in a boarding house, Nick Carter arrives at the scene, ready to investigate. As he begins to unravel the mystery, details emerge about Lawrence's past, his unjust conviction for forgery, and key figures like the mysterious Isabella Porter and her association with dangerous individuals. This gripping start sets the stage for a complex web of intrigue, revenge, and hidden motives that Carter must navigate to uncover the truth behind the murder. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20210123063233carter 1903 us Reading ease score: 85.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 496851 2025-07-27T08:19:22.238384 text/html 482596 2024-10-18T23:45:13 text/html 780716 2025-07-27T08:19:33.477315 application/epub+zip 777400 2025-07-27T08:19:24.443386 application/epub+zip 436695 2025-07-27T08:19:23.191381 application/epub+zip 1661930 2025-07-27T08:19:39.146281 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1400688 2025-07-27T08:19:32.315340 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1282451 2022-09-30T22:05:32.214954 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 437595 2025-07-27T08:19:18.919391 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 417620 2024-10-18T23:45:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17115 2025-07-27T08:19:39.302279 application/rdf+xml 29568 2025-07-27T08:19:23.466342 image/jpeg 4589 2025-07-27T08:19:23.341353 image/jpeg 1217037 2025-07-27T08:19:22.293363 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Burton, Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) More titles under Rathborne, St. George More titles under Cox, Stephen Angus Douglas