Beyond Pursuit — Nicholas Carter

“Beyond Pursuit” is an early American “dime novel” both written by and about America's first great detective-Nick Carter. This story has Nick and his partners, Chick and Patsy, solving several mysteries in the New York to Toronto area using brilliant deductions, amazing disguises, and surviving extreme danger.

The story was published in “The Magnet Detective Library” series (issue #334, March, 1904) by Street & Smith publishers. The author, Nick Carter (sometimes Nicholas Carter), is a pseudonym used by several different authors. The original Nick Carter was a fictional detective created by John Russell Coryell. The character first appeared in the New York Weekly magazine in 1886 which was also published by Street & Smith.

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Here is an excerpt:

His one thought was to get rid of Nick Carter.

He examined the rowboat and cut the rope which bound it to the dock.

Then out came a silver match case and a small match, one of the sort not blown out by the wind.

Scratch!

The match was all aflame.

Bauermann glanced about, hurriedly.

Not over a yard from where Nick lay was some oil-soaked planking.

Full oil barrels were but a short distance away.

For a second the fiend held the match.

Then he cast it from him on to the planking.

There was a flash, and a rapidly running flame followed, leaping straight for the barrels of oil!