Toying with Fate, or, Nick Carter's Narrow Shave
By Nick Carter
Length8h 48m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: ""Move on, old man, and go home!" It was the stern voice of one of New York's finest policemen that uttered these words. "Home! I wonder where it is?" muttered the old man to whom the policeman had spoken, and a shudder ran through his frame, as he slowly moved down the street. As he reached the corner near old St. John's Church, on Varick Street, he paused, rubbed his eyes and gazed dreamily around him. For some time before the policeman had addressed him he had been standing inside the church, looking through the railings into the churchyard. His form was bent by decrepitude and sorrow, and his hair was as white as the flaky snow that clung to the steeple of the old church, the bells of which had just sounded the knell of the dying year. The old man only halted on the corner for a minute, and then, crossing Beach Street, he shuffled along until he reached the center of the block, where he came to a standstill in front of an old-fashioned house, which was unoccupied. Then, as if a faintness had come over him, he grasped the rusty iron railing to prevent himself falling to the ground, and he closed his eyes, as though[6] the sight of the snow-covered houses was too much for him."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERIOUS OLD MAN.
20CHAPTER XX. AN INCORRUPTIBLE DETECTIVE.
2CHAPTER II. SEARCHING FOR CLEWS.
21CHAPTER XXI. THE CARD CLEW.
3CHAPTER III. THE IDENTIFICATION.
22CHAPTER XXII. THE BIRD IN THE DEATH TRAP.
4CHAPTER IV. A PECULIAR INTERVIEW.
23CHAPTER XXIII. CARTER AND HIS QUARRY.
5CHAPTER V. AN IMPORTANT PACKAGE.
24CHAPTER XXIV. STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS.
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6CHAPTER VI. THE THREAT.
25CHAPTER XXV. A TERRIBLE COMPACT.
7CHAPTER VII. EAVESDROPPING.
26CHAPTER XXVI. THE DARK JAILERESS AGAIN.
8CHAPTER VIII. A WOMAN SCORNED.
27CHAPTER XXVII. FOUND IN THE TIDE.
9CHAPTER IX. MORE EVIDENCE.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. A FAIR FOE.
10CHAPTER X. LENA’S STORY.
29CHAPTER XXIX. THE BACK TRAIL.
11CHAPTER XI. ACTING A PART.
30CHAPTER XXX. THE MASTER DETECTIVE’S LITTLE GAME.
12CHAPTER XII. CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
31CHAPTER XXXI. IN MOTHER FLINTSTONE’S DEN AGAIN.
13CHAPTER XIII. BLACKMAIL.
32CHAPTER XXXII. MULBERRY BILLY’S “FIND.”
14CHAPTER XIV. TIGHTENING THE COILS.
33CHAPTER XXXIII. THE COST OF A SECRET.
15CHAPTER XV. MURDER IN HELL’S KITCHEN.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. BETWEEN THE WALLS OF DOOM.
16CHAPTER XVI. THE MILLIONAIRE’S GUEST.
35CHAPTER XXXV. A COMPLETE KNOCK-OUT.
17CHAPTER XVII. BACK TO THE RED SPOT.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. THE PARRICIDE.
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE FATE OF A SPY.
37CHAPTER XXXVII. CARTER’S ESCAPE.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE KNOCK-OUT DROPS.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. JUSTICE’S ROUND-UP.
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