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Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc

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Publication Date

1878 - 1911
(years)

Genre

  • Detective and mystery stories (18) + -
  • Bildungsromans (3) + -
  • Sea stories (3) + -
  • Adventure stories (1) + -
  • Ghost stories (1) + -
  • Historical fiction (1) + -
  • Success stories (1) + -

Series

  • Five cent wide awake library (16) + -
  • Fame and fortune weekly (3) + -
  • Beadle's new dime novels (1) + -

Author

  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (3) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (2) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (2) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (2) + -
  • Raymond, P. T. (2) + -
  • A New York detective (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Howard, Police Captain (1) + -
  • Kellogg, Lieut. E. H. (1) + -
  • Lennox, Robert (1) + -
  • Starbuck, Roger, 1837- (1) + -
  • U. S. detective, A (1) + -
  • Willett, Edward, 1830-1889 (1) + -
  • Wood, N. S. (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (17) + -
  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (1) + -
  • Tousey & Small (1) + -

Topic

  • Murder (15) + -
  • Larceny (3) + -
  • Pirates (3) + -
  • History (2) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (2) + -
  • Revenge (2) + -
  • Robbery investigation (2) + -
  • Secret societies (2) + -
  • Abduction (1) + -
  • Blind (1) + -
  • Burglars (1) + -
  • Circus (1) + -
  • Comanche Indians (1) + -
  • Derringer pistols (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • False imprisonment (1) + -
  • Fees (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Ghosts (1) + -
  • Gold (1) + -
  • Grave robbing (1) + -
  • Greeks (1) + -
  • Hanging (1) + -
  • Hunters (1) + -
  • Impersonation (1) + -
  • Kidnapping (1) + -
  • Lawyers (1) + -
  • Mexicans (1) + -
  • Missing persons (1) + -
  • Opera (1) + -
  • Outlaws (1) + -
  • People with disabilities (1) + -
  • Scalping (1) + -
  • Singers (1) + -
  • Sleepwalking (1) + -
  • Spies (1) + -
  • Steamboat workers (1) + -
  • Steamboats (1) + -
  • Vigilance committees (1) + -
  • Warships (1) + -
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Character

  • Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character) (2) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (3) + -
  • New York (State) (2) + -
  • Cornwall (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • East River (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • Fordham (England) (1) + -
  • Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) (1) + -
  • India (1) + -
  • London (England) (1) + -
  • Michigan (1) + -
  • Mississippi River (1) + -
  • Mozambique (1) + -
  • Texas (1) + -
  • Trinity River (Tex.) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (19) + -
  • Dime novels (1) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (18) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (2) + -

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Billy Button, the young clown and bareback rider
Chased around the world, or, The detective's mistake
Ferret, the little detective, or, The man of many faces
North Woods Tom, the athlete hunter
Under the gallows
Rob Rudder, the boy pilot of the Mississippi
Adrift in a haunted lake, or, The mystery of a lost war-ship
The mysterious man of the mountain
Tom Topp, or, Fighting against fiends
Little Blind Joe, or, The sharks of New York
The maniac rider, or, The mystery of Hawkeswood Grange
Seven bags of gold, or, How a plucky boy got rich
The nemesis, or, Tracked to their doom
The red circle
Dick, the boy lawyer, or, Winning a big fee
Harkaway, the avenger
Harkaway on Magic Island
Red Leary, the bill-poster, or, The murder on the pier
Arrow, the avenger, or Judge Lynch on the border
Bound to rise, or, Fighting his way to success

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