NICK CARTER: The Crystal Mystery (a DIME-NOVEL Detective story about America's 19th-century SHERLOCK HOLMES Book 3)

HAND-TYPED from the original 1908 edition, COPY-EDITED, and illustrated with original COVER (front and back) and facsimilie of first page of this RARE classic pre-PULP dime-novel magazine.
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A CHASE THAT ENDS IN SUDDEN DEATH:

"Running at full speed, Nick Carter only about twenty paces in the rear of his prey.
But then the man stopped and turned at bay; and as he did so, he drew from some place of concealment a weapon the sight of which the detective knew only too well.
It was a “strangler’s cord”—a terrible weapon indeed in the hands of a man who knows how to use it.
As Nick ran on, the strangler leaped toward him.
Nick made an effort to strike the man with his fist, but the man dodged it, and the very next instant Nick felt the pressure of the terrible cord against his throat tightening. It was a case of instant action or none at all!"
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ANOTHER EXCITING ADVENTURE OF NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE, ON THE TRAIL OF A CUNNING THIEF WHO USES MESMERISM TO COMMIT HIS CRIMES IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!


CONTENTS
Chapter I: Mysterious Occurrences
Chapter II: The Strangest Robberies on Record
Chapter III: Tracing a Peculiar Circumstance
Chapter IV: The Detective Explains His Theory
Chapter V: Nick Carter Clinches an Argument
Chapter VI: The Seventh Robbery
Chapter VII: The Mystery About Percy Monmouth
Chapter VIII: A Masterful Robber of Men
Chapter IX: The Hindu Finds Two Victims
Chapter X: The Scene at the Waldorf
Chapter XI: Nick Carter Applies the Test
Chapter XII: The Capture