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.
2CHAPTER II. SEARCHING FOR CLEWS.
3CHAPTER III. THE IDENTIFICATION.
4CHAPTER IV. A PECULIAR INTERVIEW.
5CHAPTER V. AN IMPORTANT PACKAGE.
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6CHAPTER VI. THE THREAT.
7CHAPTER VII. EAVESDROPPING.
8CHAPTER VIII. A WOMAN SCORNED.
9CHAPTER IX. MORE EVIDENCE.
10CHAPTER X. LENA’S STORY.
11CHAPTER XI. ACTING A PART.
12CHAPTER XII. CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
13CHAPTER XIII. BLACKMAIL.
14CHAPTER XIV. TIGHTENING THE COILS.
15CHAPTER XV. MURDER IN HELL’S KITCHEN.
16CHAPTER XVI. THE MILLIONAIRE’S GUEST.
17CHAPTER XVII. BACK TO THE RED SPOT.
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE FATE OF A SPY.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE KNOCK-OUT DROPS.
20CHAPTER XX. AN INCORRUPTIBLE DETECTIVE.
21CHAPTER XXI. THE CARD CLEW.
22CHAPTER XXII. THE BIRD IN THE DEATH TRAP.
23CHAPTER XXIII. CARTER AND HIS QUARRY.
24CHAPTER XXIV. STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS.
25CHAPTER XXV. A TERRIBLE COMPACT.
26CHAPTER XXVI. THE DARK JAILERESS AGAIN.
27CHAPTER XXVII. FOUND IN THE TIDE.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. A FAIR FOE.
29CHAPTER XXIX. THE BACK TRAIL.
30CHAPTER XXX. THE MASTER DETECTIVE’S LITTLE GAME.
31CHAPTER XXXI. IN MOTHER FLINTSTONE’S DEN AGAIN.
32CHAPTER XXXII. MULBERRY BILLY’S “FIND.”
33CHAPTER XXXIII. THE COST OF A SECRET.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. BETWEEN THE WALLS OF DOOM.
35CHAPTER XXXV. A COMPLETE KNOCK-OUT.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. THE PARRICIDE.
37CHAPTER XXXVII. CARTER’S ESCAPE.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. JUSTICE’S ROUND-UP.
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