A human counterfeit

About this eBook

Author

Lebhar, Bertram

Title

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

Original Publication

United States: Street & Smaith,1914,copyright 1915.

Credits

David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68474

Release Date

July 8, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HUMAN COUNTERFEIT; Or, NICK CARTER AND THE CROOK’S DOUBLE.
2. 2.CHAPTER I. WHY WAS IT DONE?
3. 3.CHAPTER II. AN AMAZING ROBBERY.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. THE WOMAN WHO FAINTED.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. HOW NICK SIZED IT UP.
6. 6.CHAPTER V. PATSY STRIKES A SNAG.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. UNDER TRUE COLORS.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. A LEAF FROM THE PAST.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. NICK WALKS INTO A NET.
10. 10.CHAPTER IX. THE MAN ON THE BED.
11. 11.SNAPSHOT ARTILLERY.
12. 12.CHAPTER XVI. A NIGHT’S WORK.
13. 13.CHAPTER XVII. A BIT OF STRATEGY.
14. 14.CHAPTER XVIII. A GOOD BAG.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIX. THE ENEMY’S MOVE. — WORSE AND WORSE.
16. 16.THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS. — Dies Preaching on Death. — Dyestuff Makers Cheerful. — This Aged Hen is a Real Coop Marvel. — Laborers Kill Two-hundred-pound Shark. — Child Plays With Rattler. — A Municipal Bat Roost. — Knife Melted by Lightning. — Girl Poses as Boy Five Years. — Government’s Movie Shows. — Rains Alligators in Iowa. — Interesting New Inventions. — Sue for Wages Earned Back in Slavery Days. — Dies Close to Time He Set. — Year’s Pickles in the United States. — New Electric Fly Swatter. — Head Clerk’s Ear Is His Own Cash Register. — Apple-sizing Machine Invented in Oregon. — How to Fireproof Clothes. — His Machine Ties Bundles. — Flesh From Body Saves Eye. — Tallest Couple are Wedded. — This Modest Inventor Would Stop World War. — Walks on 113th Birthday. — Flivver is Not Amphibious. — Song Tells of Old Man Who Had a Wooden Leg. — Machine That Remembers. — Fifty Dollars Gone, Flivver May Survive. — Capture Odd Pair of Mice. — Billy Goat is Boss of Town. — Aged Couple Joined at Last. — “Well Broken to Hard Work.” — Snake Swallows China Egg. — Lightning’s Queer Freak. — Sounds Like a Fish Story. — Ghostly Figure That is an Awful Shrieker. — Hoodoo Pursues Two Miners. — Former Water Boy’s Story.

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