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Publication Date

1879 - 1930
(years)

Genre

  • Western stories (6) + -
  • Bildungsromans (4) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (2) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -

Series

  • Deadwood Dick library (16) + -
  • Pluck and luck (6) + -
  • New Nick Carter weekly (New York, N.Y. : 1903) (5) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (1) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (1) + -
  • Nugget library (1) + -

Author

  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (16) + -
  • Wade, William (6) + -
  • Carter, Nick (5) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (2) + -
  • Warden, Ex-Firechief (2) + -
  • Arnold, Allan (1) + -
  • Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 (1) + -
  • Dowd, Jno. B. (John B.), 1841-1906 (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Old scout (1) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (1) + -
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Publisher

  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (16) + -
  • Street & Smith (6) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (6) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

  • Inheritance and succession (6) + -
  • Missing persons (5) + -
  • Murder (5) + -
  • Private investigators (5) + -
  • Rescues (4) + -
  • Shoe shiners (4) + -
  • Impostors and imposture (3) + -
  • Women detectives (3) + -
  • Women heroes (3) + -
  • Women outlaws (3) + -
  • African American men (2) + -
  • Bank robberies (2) + -
  • Child detectives (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Escapes (2) + -
  • Fathers and sons (2) + -
  • Female offenders (2) + -
  • Fire fighters (2) + -
  • Fires (2) + -
  • French (2) + -
  • Gambling (2) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (2) + -
  • Indentured servants (2) + -
  • Jews, German (2) + -
  • Kidnapping (2) + -
  • Mentally ill women (2) + -
  • Outlaws (2) + -
  • Revenge (2) + -
  • Street children (2) + -
  • Wealth (2) + -
  • Abandoned children (1) + -
  • Abandoned houses (1) + -
  • Accidents (1) + -
  • Actors (1) + -
  • Actresses (1) + -
  • Alcoholics (1) + -
  • Amphitheaters (1) + -
  • Apparitions (1) + -
  • Arabs (1) + -
  • Arson (1) + -
  • Awards (1) + -
  • Body snatching (1) + -
  • Brigands and robbers (1) + -
  • Brothers (1) + -
  • Caves (1) + -
  • Children (1) + -
  • Church buildings (1) + -
  • Circus (1) + -
  • Clubs (1) + -
  • Conduct of life (1) + -
  • Conspiracies (1) + -
  • Counterfeiters (1) + -
  • Cults (1) + -
  • Danites (Mormon Church) (1) + -
  • Debtor and creditor (1) + -
  • Department stores (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Dueling (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Heroes (1) + -
  • Interpersonal relations (1) + -
  • Investigation (1) + -
  • Jews (1) + -
  • Lakota Indians (1) + -
  • Light (1) + -
  • Mephistopheles (Legendary character) (1) + -
  • Mills and mill-work (1) + -
  • Mistaken identity (1) + -
  • Money laundering (1) + -
  • Mormons (1) + -
  • Paramours (1) + -
  • Pirates (1) + -
  • Polygyny (1) + -
  • Psychiatric hospitals (1) + -
  • Quartz mines and mining (1) + -
  • Remorse (1) + -
  • Robbery (1) + -
  • Secret societies (1) + -
  • Smuggling (1) + -
  • Spaniards (1) + -
  • Spires (1) + -
  • Suicide victims (1) + -
  • Sumatran orangutan (1) + -
  • Tarantulas (1) + -
  • Taxicabs (1) + -
  • Train robberies (1) + -
  • Traitors (1) + -
  • Treasure troves (1) + -
  • Undercover operations (1) + -
  • Vendetta (1) + -
  • Weddings (1) + -
  • Women school principals (1) + -
  • Young men (1) + -
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Character

  • Carter, Nick (5) + -
  • Sam Slocum (Sierra Sam) (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Denver Doll (Fictitious character) (1) + -
  • William Bethel (Little Bill) (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (8) + -
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (6) + -
  • California (2) + -
  • Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) (2) + -
  • San Francisco (2) + -
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (2) + -
  • Arizona (1) + -
  • Atlantic City (N.J.) (1) + -
  • Boston (Mass.) (1) + -
  • Cuba (1) + -
  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (30) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ New Buffalo Bill weekly
  • (-) ≠ Colorado
  • (-) ≠ Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character)
  • (-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  • (-) ≠ Tousey, Frank
  • (-) = Detective and mystery stories

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The phantom fireman, or, The mystery of Mark Howland's life
Phil, the boy fireman, or, Through flames to victory
100 feet above the housetops, or, The mystery of the old church steeple
Lost in the great basin, or, The wonderful underground city
Shiner, the New-York bootblack, or, The secret of a boy's life
The merry ten, or, The shadows of a social club
The vampire's prey, or, Nick Carter's blow at policy
The taxicab mystery, or, Nick Carter closes a deal
The child of the jungle, or, Nick Carter's ingenious ruse
A clue from the clouds, or, Nick Carter's mysterious evidence
The black flag of piracy, or, Nick Carter's daring venture
The red circle
Tried for his life, or, The chain of guilt
The detective road-agent
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy
Buck Hawk, detective, or, The messenger boy's fortune
Denver Doll as detective, or, Little Bill's bold risk
Sierra Sam's sentence, or, Little luck at Rough Ranch
Sierra Sam's double, or, The three female detectives
Sierra Sam, the detective
The frontier detective, or, Sierra Sam's scheme
Detective Josh Grim, or, The young gladiator's game
The ventriloquist detective
New York Nell, the boy-girl detective, or, Old Blakesly's money
Tony Fox, the ferret, or, Boss Bob's boss job
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