A Game of Graft
★ 9 · 1922 · 20m · Drama
Nick Carter is hired by a rich man to verify his suspicions that the young man that is paying his daughter attentions is deceiving her. It is discovered that the boy is being lured by society crooks into blackmail. Fourth and final episode of the Nick Carter series starring Edmund Lowe.
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