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Woman at Bay

Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". Nick is customarily to be found among the rich and powerful but in this latest offering, he is to be found with his three assistants sitting around a makeshift campfire made of railroad tires. "These four men were about as rough-looking specimens of humanity as can be imagined." Is Nick down on his luck? Or is it just another case? (7 hr 10 min)

Chapters

The King of the Yeggmen

The Yeggmen’s Camp Fire

The 'King's' Lieutenant

The Outlaw’s Home

Nick’s Wonderful Strength

Nick Carter Robs a Bank

The Detective’s Predicament

The Detectives Face a Crisis

The Escape from the Swamp

Escape of the Hobo Queen

Patsy’s Dangerous Mission

Bill Turner, the Woodsman

Black Madge’s Lieutenant

Black Madge Gives Judgement

Nick's Cleverest Capture

Nick Makes Bad Medicine

A Wholesale Roundup

Black Madge’s Threat

The Band of Hatred

A Chapter of Accidents

Curly John, the Bank Thief

At Mike Grinnell's Dive

Black Madge's Defiance

The Flight Through the Cellar

The Man in the Bed

The Criminal’s Compact

The Glare of a Match

Black Madge Caught in a Trap