NICK CARTER: The Key Ring Clew (a 1904 Dime-Novel DETECTIVE story of OLD New York) Review

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NICK CARTER: The Key Ring Clew (a 1904 Dime-Novel DETECTIVE story of OLD New York) ReviewThis is definitely "one from the vaults," but still provides lots of action and adventure, despite the parts which audibly creak. BEST of all to recommend it, this 1904 dime-novel provides a great document of the time, from details like the "Elevated" trains of NYC, or the fact a typist was called a "typewriter" and a crook's blackjack was a "slungshot." These are the kinds of details a modern writer penning historical fiction would have to laboriously research to come up with, but this actual product of the time provides details like these in abundance.
As for the plot, it is contrived, but contrived to throw the heroes and villains into the most precarious positions imaginable, and it's full of quick-change disguises, lethal death-traps, impossible trick-shots, and fresh corpses at every turn.
As usual Nick Carter, master detective, presides over events with compassion and dogged pursuit, as he leads a manhunt for a "murderous pervert," (as one confederate describes him).
This book has a great original cover and an intriguing title, but the "clew" of the key ring comes very little into play, except symbolically at the end, but plenty more "clews" along the way ultimately lead Nick and his two assistants, Chick and Patsy, to lay hands firmly on their slippery quarry, the evil Henry Gray.
Very fast read and diverting.NICK CARTER: The Key Ring Clew (a 1904 Dime-Novel DETECTIVE story of OLD New York) OverviewNICK CARTER: The Key Ring Clewby Nicholas Cartera Dime-Novel DETECTIVE Adventure of 19th-century MASTER DETECTIVE, Nick Carter.Nick Carter Challenged: "I should like to see you run down a murderer without ever viewing the body of the victim or the scene of the crime."24 CHAPTERS OF RIP-ROARING turn-of-the-19th-century DETECTIVE ACTION and INCREDIBLE ESCAPES!THE TELEGRAM THAT SET OFF THE MURDER INVESTIGATION and MANHUNT in THE CASE of DRAGON KEY RING CLEW:"MY DEAR CARTER: Our friend, Col. Langworthy, was found dead in his room this morning. He has been murdered. The deed was evidently done late last night before he retired. The murderer used a knife, which is still in his body. I found the window unlocked, and there are footprints outside; in the tracks I found part of what seems to be a key ring, a heavy silver semi-circle, the design being apparently a dragon with its tail in its mouth. Have informed no one as yet. Will you take the case?"REVENGE-INSURANCE FRAUD-MASS MURDER-BURIED TREASURETHE KEY RING CLEWor,ON THE EDGE OF DOOMby Nicholas CarterCONTENTSChapter I: THEORY AND PRACTICEChapter II: TWO STRANGERSChapter III: A MIDNIGHT VISITORChapter IV: "LET THE LAW TAKE ITS COURSE"Chapter V: AT THE INQUESTChapter VI: IN THE DESERTED FORTChapter VII: CLINCHING EVIDENCEChapter VIII: FRUITLESS SEARCHChapter IX: PATSY SEES A BOATChapter X: TO THE RESCUEChapter XI: NICK'S DISCOVERYChapter XII: PATSY'S TEN-STRIKEChapter XIII: THE SURPRISE PARTYChapter XIV: WHAT THE TYPEWRITER KNEWChapter XV: OLD MARVIN'S DEATHChapter XVI: THE THIEFChapter XVII: PATSY'S DELICATE GAMEChapter XVIII: THE DEPOSIT CHECKChapter XIX: ON THE PIERChapter XX: A BREAK FOR FREEDOMChapter XXI: ACROSS THE RIVERChapter XXII: PICKING UP THE TRAILChapter XXIII: AT RED MOLL'SChapter XXIV: CRAFT'S CONFESSION

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