YELLOW “It's the footprint of a left hand said Nick

YELLOW “It's the footprint of a left hand said Nick.-I also notice that the last phalanx of the ring finger is unmarked.” The character of investigator Nick Carter, invented by Ormond Gerald Smith and first developed in a short story by John Russel Coryell in 1886, was taken up as the protagonist by countless authors of cheap novels. His popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century was such that he deserved a weekly dedicated completely to him, as well as the attention of the emerging world of cinema. Cover of the Italian edition of “The House Of Whispers (La voce misteriosa)”. The investigator and his assistant are examining fingerprints left by a thief on a safe. Street & Smith Publishers, Series II No 24, New York, 1910.