Bingham Harvard, former prot g of a banker named Chester, is wrongfully accused of robbing Chester's bank. Escaping from the police, Harvard must flee to England. While his private detective wife attempts to clear Harvard's name, how can sudden appearance in New York of the mysterious Night Wind be explained, when Bingham Harvard and the Night Wind are one and the same?Varick Vanardy was the pseudonym of prolific dime-novel producer Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, the author of over one thousand Nick Carter stories. His Night Wind novels were written for The Cavalier magazine during the last years of Dey's amazing writing career, as dime novels gave way to the new pulp magazine field pioneered by Argosy.