![]() ![]() Nicholas (“Nick”) Carter, assisted by Chick, Patsy and Ten-Ichi, was heavily involved in solving these crimes.The 1907 book, A Woman at Bay or A Fiend in Skirts begins with Nicholas and his partners posing as “yeggmen”, crooks who rob the railway companies.įour men were seated around a camp fire made of old railroad ties, over which a kettle was boiling merrily, where it hung from an improvised crane above the blaze. In the early 1900s many detectives were concerned with railway robberies – whether on the trains themselves or on railway property. Over 250 Killmaster stories were published. Following in the footsteps of James Bond in the 1960s, Nick Carter became a secret agent, aka ‘Killmaster’ and as such continued to 1990 when Nick Carter was finally “terminated with prejudice”. By 1915 Nick Carter had been replaced with a more varied cast of characters but was revived in the early 30s due to the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage in this incarnation he through the 1950s. ![]() The author “Nick Carter” in reality was a number of different writers for a number of different publications. Nick Carter began as a pulp fiction private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of roles for just over a century. ![]()
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