Project Gutenberg 2004-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 67 Carter, Nicholas (House name) Carter, Nick The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. The crime of the French Café -- Nick Carter's ghost story -- The mystery of St. Agnes' Hospital. Produced by Steven desJardins and Distributed Proofreaders "The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories" by Nicholas Carter is a collection of detective stories written during the early 20th century. The book features Nick Carter, an intrepid detective known for his sharp wit and resourcefulness, as he solves various criminal puzzles, with the first story centering on a mysterious murder in a French restaurant. The opening of the first story presents Nick Carter on a routine case involving a robbery. As he waits outside a French café for a suspect, he witnesses a waiter fleeing the establishment, which piques his interest. Upon entering the café, Nick discovers a grisly scene in an empty dining room: a beautiful woman has been murdered, and the detective sets out to unravel the circumstances surrounding her death. The suspense builds as Nick questions witnesses and examines clues, leading him to a complex web of identities, motives, and unexpected twists crucial to solving the crime. This opening sets the stage for a thrilling investigation filled with intrigue and clever deductions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mystery fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 327269 326145 2024-10-05T15:21:36.109389 2023-10-05T13:57:19.964590 text/html text/html 324046 2020-12-26T08:02:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 110338 2020-12-26T08:02:13 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 193011 2024-10-05T15:21:44.821240 application/epub+zip 198411 2024-10-05T15:21:39.355268 application/epub+zip 181535 2024-10-05T15:21:38.045268 application/epub+zip 384775 2024-10-05T15:21:48.559228 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 373653 2024-10-05T15:21:43.979226 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 331718 2022-09-06T18:08:28.528133 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 294492 294451 2024-10-05T15:21:34.376264 2023-10-05T13:57:18.569575 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 295898 2020-12-26T08:02:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 106679 2020-12-26T08:02:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 295897 2020-12-26T08:02:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 106655 2020-12-26T08:02:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21633 2024-10-05T15:21:48.696194 application/rdf+xml 14397 2024-10-05T15:21:38.613243 image/jpeg 3424 2024-10-05T15:21:38.328429 image/jpeg 186030 2024-10-05T15:21:36.137266 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Burton, Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) More titles under Rathborne, St. George More titles under Cox, Stephen Angus Douglas