Nick Carter Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama first introduced in 1886, based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter from Street & Smith’s dime novels and pulp magazines. Nick Carter first came to radio as The Return of Nick Carter, a reference to the character’s pulp origins, but the title was soon changed to Nick Carter, Master Detective. A veteran radio dramatist, Ferrin Fraser, wrote many of the scripts. “Yes, it’s another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in detective fiction!