The Call of Death, or, Nick Carter's Clever Assistant (eBook, ePUB)
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Excerpt: ?There?s no question in my mind, inspector, as to who did the job,? said Nick Carter. ?You feel sure of it, then?? ?As sure as water runs downhill. I refer, of course, to the mechanical part of the work. I looked it over on the morning following the burglary, every part of the looted vault, and I am as sure of the cracksman?s identity as if I had seen him getting in his work. Only one yegg in the business has the mechanical genius to crack a vault as that was cracked.? ?James Nordeck?? ?Surely. I have seen Nordeck?s work before, and I know it when I see it. It is invariably stamped wi...
Excerpt: ?There?s no question in my mind, inspector, as to who did the job,? said Nick Carter. ?You feel sure of it, then?? ?As sure as water runs downhill. I refer, of course, to the mechanical part of the work. I looked it over on the morning following the burglary, every part of the looted vault, and I am as sure of the cracksman?s identity as if I had seen him getting in his work. Only one yegg in the business has the mechanical genius to crack a vault as that was cracked.? ?James Nordeck?? ?Surely. I have seen Nordeck?s work before, and I know it when I see it. It is invariably stamped with his mechanical ingenuity. Jim Nordeck is in a class of his own at that business.? ?Here is his mug, front and profile, chief, also his record. Have a look at them.? The last came from Chick Carter, the celebrated detective?s senior assistant, and the remarks of both were addressed to Inspector Mallory, then head of the detective force identified with the New York police department. They were discussing the recent burglary of a savings bank up in Westchester County, a crime committed about a week before, in which the remarkably skillful drilling of the vault for the use of explosives, as well as other details of the felonious work, plainly showed it to have been that of professional cracksmen.
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