Project Gutenberg 2022-08-22 Public domain in the USA. 152 Carter, Nicholas (House name) Carter, Nick Jenkins, Burke Small, A. L. Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine. $aUnited States :$bPrivately printed, University Press,$c1950. Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine -- Ruby light [continued] -- A double trick. David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library) "Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a Million Ransom; or, Nick..." is a fiction work likely written in the early 20th century. The story follows the astute detective Nick Carter as he investigates the abduction of a young girl, Amy Madden, unveiling a nefarious plot entwined with deception and manipulation. Alongside his junior assistant, Patsy Garvan, Carter navigates through layers of intrigue, leading to a confrontation with a cunning gang. The opening of this tale begins with Nick Carter spotting a woman who appears to be in distress in Central Park, which piques his interest as a detective. After assisting the woman, he soon realizes that her fainting spell may have been a ploy, coinciding with the disappearance of the nurse's charge, a child named Amy. As Carter pieces together the suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident alongside his assistant, they urgently set out to locate both the child and a woman linked to the deceitful scheme, implying the tensions and risks that lie ahead in their journey to thwart a ransom demand. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20211223031234pratt 1950 US Reading ease score: 84.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Popular literature -- Periodicals Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 246455 2025-07-27T08:50:12.401273 text/html 225487 2024-10-19T00:08:18 text/html 214603 2025-07-27T08:50:17.357248 application/epub+zip 215255 2025-07-27T08:50:13.525223 application/epub+zip 203298 2025-07-27T08:50:12.872243 application/epub+zip 907366 2025-07-27T08:50:20.497216 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 881150 2025-07-27T08:50:16.768213 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 762865 2022-09-30T23:17:53.648668 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225504 2025-07-27T08:50:11.787245 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 205192 2024-10-19T00:08:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17638 2025-07-27T08:50:20.678180 application/rdf+xml 23314 2025-07-27T08:50:13.042251 image/jpeg 3893 2025-07-27T08:50:12.954231 image/jpeg 355993 2025-07-27T08:50:12.427270 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 Cox, Stephen Angus Douglas More titles under Rathborne, St. George