Nick Carter Strikes Oil

About this eBook

Author

Bradshaw, Alden F.

Title

Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a Murder

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. 67082

Release Date

January 2, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NICK CARTER STRIKES OIL; Or UNCOVERING MORE THAN A MURDER.
2. 2.CHAPTER I. THE CLERGYMAN.
3. 3.CHAPTER II. WAITING FOR NICK CARTER.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. A SUSPECT AND AN ALIBI.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. NICK’S JOURNEY TO HANK LOW’S.
6. 6.CHAPTER V. THE DETECTIVE MAKES AN ARREST.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EVIDENCE.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. DADDY DREW’S DIVE.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. HANK LOW’S LUCK. — WHAT IS A DAY?
10. 10.CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF JACOB MOORE.
11. 11.CHAPTER II. ON THE TRAIN.
12. 12.CHAPTER III. CONSTABLE BRAGG.
13. 13.CHAPTER IV. DETECTIVE KEENE MAKES AN IMPRESSION. — THE GREAT SALT BEND. — SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. — PLANT BURGLARS—READ RIGHT THROUGH BEFORE SUSPECTING YOUR TULIP BED. — TERRIBLE FATES POSSIBLE. — HOW CANTILEVER BRIDGES ARE CONSTRUCTED. — TRADE IN TRIFLES.
14. 14.THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS. — A Great Cotton Year in England. — Famous Animal Trainer Dies. — An Airship Like a Hotel. — Columbia Sophomores’ Curious Idea of Sport. — Buys Island for Bird Refuge. — $10,000 Straus Memorial for Harvard. — Brave Man Faces Death from Rabies. — Social Institute for Young Men and Women. — Indian Tribes Claim Chicago Lake Front. — This Big College Man a Needle Expert. — Hazers Expelled from New York University. — New York Taxes Increase. — Youngest Postmistress. — Few Left-hand Pitchers in Minor League. — Italy Wants Porter Charlton for Lake Como Crime. — Heir to $50,000,000 Born. — Parcels-post Stamps Are Novel in Design. — Had 96 Shot Wounds in His Body. — Relics of Spanish Armada Found. — Language of Lower Animals. — Shoots Self During Nightmare. — Korean Plotters Get Heavy Sentences. — Oppose Capital Punishment in Austria. — Statistics Show 31,517 Books Published in Russia in 1911. — Large Crops Vindicate Colorado Dry Farmers. — Arkansas Has 10,175 School-teachers. — Would Compel Girls to Join German Army. — Prisoner Blows Up Police Auto. — Three Killed in Clan Fight. — Graft Sister’s Skin on Burned Boy. — Training a Pleasure, Says Veteran Coach. — Revolution Has Drained the Treasury of San Domingo. — Instrument to Detect Hurricanes. — “Dead” Animals Made to Live. — Indians Poison Mexican Wells. — A Good Use for Grasshoppers. — Slim Build Lets this Convict Escape. — Former Dive Keeper Tells of Wrath to Come. — Indians Buy Baby Carriages. — Unsuspected Bank Clerk Pleads Guilty of Robbery. — Gaynor Stands Up for the Hatpin. — Cripples Play Exciting Ball Game. — Killed 3,750,000 Flies. — Factories in Canada Behind on Orders. — Danish Swindler Makes Fortune by Clever Coup. — Chained to Post in Public for Refusing to Pay Fines. — For Not Cashing Vouchers Woman May Lose Savings. — Illinois Central Railroad Has Decrease in Business. — The Recent Distribution of Immigrants. — Delegate Gives Banker a Shock. — Pardoned Banker Back to Wall Street Game. — Methodist Ministers Must Not Joke. — Carried Out to Sea While Being Baptized. — A Blind Stenographer. — Brave Newsboy Offered Fifteen Artificial Legs. — Three New Rescue Stations for English Miners.
15. 15.The Nick Carter Weekly

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