Rick Brant Science Adventures Series by John Blaine
Rick Brant Science Adventures #1
Rick Brant 1 The Rocket's Shadow
John Blaine
Rick Brant, son of the famous electronic scientist Hartson Brant, finds himself and his new pal Scotty in danger as they seek to unravel a mystery. A traitor is trying to spoil an important experiment being conducted by the Spindrift Island scientists, all for a cut of a two-million-dollar grant. The deadline is only a few days away and still the finger of guilt points to more than one suspect. Who can it be? Join Rick and Scotty in this thrilling adventure which is first volume of the Rick Brant Electronic Adventure Series.
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #3
Rick Brant 3 Sea Gold
John Blaine
Today's pioneers find their frontiers in the tremendous achievements of modern science. Rick Brant is no exception and his interest in electronics, as readers of The Rocket's Shadow and The Lost City well know, often leads Rick and his friend Scotty into adventures both amazing and perilous. This summer the boys decide to get jobs at the new sea mine plant where minerals are being extracted from sea water. From the start they encounter inexplicable opposition to their plan - opposition that seems to have a peculiar element of personal malice. In spite of this they manage to land jobs at the plant, but it soon becomes apparent that not only is the sea mine being systematically sabotaged but that also the unknown enemies are determined to liquidate Rick and Scotty themselves. Finally, after Rick foils a murderous attempt on their lives, the boys are fired - for their own good. But Rick and Scotty sense that the climax of the diabolical plot is not far off and refuse to stay fired. Sea Gold is a trigger-paced story in which the mounting suspense culminates in a surprise ending that will catch the reader off guard and gain a new host of friends for this brand-new electronic series. - Publisher.
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #7
Rick Brant 7 Smugglers' Reef
John Blaine
Rick Brant and his pal, Scotty, have the kind of adventures all young men would like to have. They live on an island called Spindrift where Rick's father heads a group of scientists working in the field of electronics. Here and abroad the young men encounter many thrilling adventures and solve many baffling mysteries. In "Smugglers' Reef" Rick and Scotty use an infrared camera to gather evidence against smugglers.
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #8
Rick Brant 8 The Caves of Fear
John Blaine
The telegram from Singapore was a coded message from Chahda, their friend from Bombay. (What he as doing in Singapore, none of them could imagine.) It was a big pile of numbers that looked like gokum until the island's brain trust had been over it. But they did go over it, and found a message --
Come both. Bad troubles. Am in danger. My boss, Carl Bradley, disappeared. Government will ask scientific father do special work. Must take. Get jobs, meet me Hong Kong Golden Mouse. Watch Chinese with glass eye, he dangerous. And beware long shadow. . . .
The message was an adventure getting ready to happen, was what if was. But what's to expect? This is a book called The Caves of Fear. It's a Rick Brant science-adventure story! Of course there are improbable puzzles and peculiar circumstances!
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #10
Rick Brant 10 The Golden Skull
John Blaine
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The Ifugaos, faces distorted with hatred and fury, pursued them.
Rick Brant is a boy who with his pal Scotty lives on an island called Spindrift and takes part in so many thrilling adventures and baffling mysteries involving science and electronic.
Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24.[1]
In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the Spindrift Foundation, a group of scientists. Rick and Scotty are involved in various adventures at home and abroad. Besides Hartson Brant, the recurring supporting characters in the series include:
Barbara Brant (Barby), Rick's younger sister
Chahda, a resourceful youth from India
Janice Miller (Jan), daughter of Dr. Walter Miller, a Spindrift scientist, and Rick's girlfriend
Dismal [Diz], the Brant family dog
Steve Ames, an agent of "JANIG", the fictional Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Group
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #14
Rick Brant 14 The Pirates of Shan
John Blaine
Rick Brant and his pal, Scotty, are plunged into danger and excitement when they encounter the cutthroat pirates of Shan in the heart of the Pacific tropics. During an expedition to locate two missing scientists, Rick, the son of a famous scientist and youngest member of the Spindrift Scientific Foundation, finds that piracy exists in a new and modem form. How he and his friends rescue the lost scientists and help to eradicate organized piracy in the Sulu Sea through the use of modern electronics makes one of the most thrilling adventures in the Rick Brant series.
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #17
The Flaming Mountain
John Blaine
Rock, melting like butter on a hot stove! It is hard to believe, but that is what happens on San Luz, a small island off the coast of South America. When Rick Brant and his pal Dan Scott fly to the famous resort island to join Rick's father, head of the Spindrift Scientific Foundation, a seemingly inactive volcano is about to explode in an eruption which could easily blow San Luz off the map.
The immediate threat is to a small town at the foot of the volcano, where the air reeks with the fumes of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and it is here that Rick and Scotty help Dr. Brant and his scientist associates set up headquarters, in the hope of finding a way of controlling an eruption that is growing into a certainty with fantastic speed.
But their efforts to save the island town are hindered by the superior forces of nature, the superstitious fatalism of the people - and sabotage!
With the earth opening up all around them, Rick, Scotty, and the scientists have little hope of preventing a catastrophe, until a decision is made to unleash the awesome power of atomic energy in a desperate last attempt to fight the volcanic eruption.
Jam-packed with excitement and swift, tense action, The Flaming Mountain has all the elements that have made the Rick Brant Science Adventure series a favorite with boys all over the world.
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Rick Brant Science Adventures #22
The Deadly Dutchman
John Blaine
"Rick Brant and his pal Scotty have the kind of adventures everone would like to have. They live on an island called Spindrift where Rick's father heads a group of scientists. At home and abroad the boys encounter many thrilling adventures and solve many baffling mysteries"--P. 4 of cover
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