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What is The Great Spy System about?

Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a pulp fiction private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. Nick Carter first appeared in the story paper New York Weekly (Vol. 41 No. 46, September 18, 1886) in a 13-week serial, "The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square" by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith. The character proved popular enough to headline his own magazine, Nick Carter Weekly. By 1915, Nick Carter Weekly had ceased publication and Street & Smith had replaced it with Detective Story Magazine, which focused on a more varied cast of characters. In the 1930s, due to the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage, Street & Smith revived Nick Carter in a Pulp magazine (called Nick Carter Detective Magazine) that ran from 1933 to 1936. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective, which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System network from 1943 to 1955. None of the Nick Carter series of books carried author credits, although it is known that several of the earliest volumes w

Author

John R. Coryell

Publisher

Anncona Media AB

Language

EN