![]() So, much of this collection got built by buying him presents for Christmas, birthdays, father's days, etc. My dad got around the world quite a bit and he was impressed with the accuracy of the Nick Carter writers in depicting places he'd been. My dad was a huge reader of Westerns but I had a couple of Nick Carter books around and told him to try them, and he got into them in a big way. Luckily, I got the bulk of these really cheap, by haunting used bookstores, where they were a buck at most, and a lot of 'em were fifty cents, a quarter, etc. Naturally, I didn't go back to the 1800's and collect the old detective pulps and dime-novels ( info on those here) - I stuck to the Killmaster books. That's 261 books, as detailed here on this wonderful website which was invaluable to me in this insane endeavor. ![]() I collected all the freakin' Nick Carter series.
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