The sources for the following stories come from a variety of places. Some are scans and OCR-ings of books from my library, some are from legitimate sources found on the Internet (and edited/corrected where it is obvious that source is full of errors) and a few are from a Russian source that have posted files of several of these stories that may still be covered under U.S. copyrights.
The covers are conglomerations from various sources, from the Internet to my own books. In every case, a fair amount of work was necessary to make them as presentable as possible. This is especially true with several for which I was only able to locate low-quality, small artwork and had to go through a process of enlarge/fix/enlarge/fix/enlarge until I had something that can work as both a screen-quality image as well as one capable of being used in the printing industry. This was done with varying success.
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Rick and his friend/protector Donald Scott (Scotty) have the sort of lives teenage boys dream about, full of adventure and action. Rick's father is trying to build a rocket to reach the moon. A large monetary prize has been offered for the first group able to do so and the Brant group is the leading contender. However, there are other groups in the chase and one of them is a criminal group that does everything it can to sabotage the Brant effort.
Rick and his friend Scotty join several other Spindrift scientists on an expedition in Tibet to place a special transmitter/receiver they hope will allow signals to be bounced off the Moon. But, things turn out strange as a hidden city is discovered, and our hero andhis friends are taken captive by decendents of Genghis Khan! Adding to their troubles is a mystery man who seems bent or ruining their chances from the outset!
Rick and Scotty want some summer work so they go to see the owners of a new company that hopes to mine the ocean waters for valuable minerals. But, the townspeople have been stirred up to believe the harmless process will destroy their fishing areas and set out to disable/destroy the mine before it can get into production. Sabotage of the plant occurs while the boys set about finding who is responsible for both the rumors and the damage. What and who they find shocks them both!
Rick and Scotty join Dr. Brant and several of the Spindrift scientists on a South Pacific adventure in search of a fabled sunken temple. They employ a small crew and cargo ship to take them and their undersea vessel, the Submobile, to a specific site only to find that the natives on a nearby island are less than friendly, the crew is out for other purposes, and they are soon abandoned on the island. As their former crew take their salvage vessel for their own use, Rick and his father figure out a way to get back into command and undertake a daring scheme.
Book 5: The Whispering Box Mystery.
Rick and Scotty accept an assignment as assistants in Washington D.C. only to find that they are the targets of criminals who have developed an incredible box that can paralyze people. The bad men are using these devices to invade government science buildings to rob top secret project plans. Rick helps discover a counter weapon to the "whispering box," so-called for the sound it makes when triggered, but can it be deployed before the thieves make their final strike and disappear forever?
What starts as a working vacation for Rick, Scotty and Barby Brant--Rick's sister--quickly becomes a South Pacific mystery as tales of a Phantom Shark--man or beast that kills in order to steal pearls--are told to them by several people. A mysterious American with a lust for Pearls shows them his pride and joy: a nearly complete necklace of matched pearls. But he is soon under suspicion when Rick sees him meeting with a man clad only in black on a deserted beach. The giant shark is spotted near an atoll by the boys and they discover a giant trove of pearl-laden oysters nearby.
This adventure sees Rick Brant and Don Scott tracking down a band of smugglers who are operating in the north Atlantic. Using an infrared camera and sniperscope Rick traces the criminals and their activities, but each time they elude the grasp of the police: somehow the stolen goods vanish before they can be captured and arrested. How Rick and Scotty are at last able to track down the smugglers makes for some fantastic, fast-paced reading.
A telegram from Singapore holds a coded message from Chahda, their friend from Bombay. It was a grouping of numbers that look like gibberish until the island's brain trust go over it. But they do, thoroughly, and find a message--a deeply coded message and a mystery... "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"
While Rick and Scotty are supposed to be helping with a new, top secret, DOD project they become involved in hunting down the man who hit-and-ran Rick's kittle sister. When it turns out that the man is a notorious and wanted gangster, and his minions have been seen living in an abandoned amusement park near to the lab, the young adventurer's curiosity gets so much the better of him that his very life is placed in jeopardy. And, more than once as the gangsters try to keep him from finding out the truth.
Rick and his sidekick Scotty join Dr. Anthony Briotti, archaeologist for the world-renowned Spindrift Scientific Foundation, which is directed by Rick’s father, on an expedition to the Mountain Province of Luzon in the Philippine Archipelago. Their goal is to unearth a cache of artifacts, including a fabled golden skull, hidden in mountainous rice terraces of central Luzon, an area now occupied by the fiercely independent Ifugao peoples. Trouble dogs the Spindrifters from the very outset and even before setting foot on Philippine soil.
Strange sounds have been detected and some people believe they come from an octopus. Knowing this can't be, the Spindrift team fo into action. As Rick checks over his aqualung and underwater camera, he can't realize the mystery he and Scotty will find hidden along the bottom of the ocean in the Caribbean. They stumble across a group of deadly spies with other things in mind. But, what can their intent be? And, can Rick unravel the mystery before they can do him harm and unlock the octopus's secret?
Book 12: The Electronic Mind Reader.
This time the Splindrift Scientists are asked to help solve a mystery for the government. The case they get assigned to is a troubling one. Rick and Scotty are shocked as one scientist after another falls victim to a diabolical mind reading electronic machine that appears to wipe their brains, making them almost non-functional. As they investigate, Rick and Scotty find themselves at risk of the same fate as the other scientists. But, is it possible that a little gizmo Rick built for fun holds the key to the problem?
Book 13: The Scarlet Lake Mystery.
Giant rockets that probe the borders of space provide authentic scientific background for this breath-taking adventure. When Rick and Scotty go to work at a secret rocket base in Nevada, only two men at the base know their real mission: to track down a saboteur who calls himself 'The Earthman'. But, once their enemy discovers their secret, will their lives end in murder, or and "accident" or will they be able to unmask him in time?
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 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.
Book 15: The Blue Ghost Mystery.
A shimmering ghost walks by night with his spectral henchmen in the shadow of an old deserted lead mine. Is it the phantom ghost of a Union captain killed so long ago in the days of the Civil War--or is it a fraud? At the urgent request of his sister Barby, Rick Brant and his sidekick Scotty fly down to the sleepy Virginia town from the Spindrift Scientific Foundation to see for themselves the eerie apparition at Old Mine Campground. Unconvinced the ghost is real, Rick sets out to unmask the truth.
Book 16: The Egyptian Cat Mystery.
In Chicago, a man speaks into the telephone: "The cat is ready!" With these four words a chain of harrowing events is set into motion which involves Rick Brant and his pal Don Scott in which they are thrown into ten days of danger, intrigue, and suspense. The action centers around a cat... but what sort of cat could it be? That's Rick's first mystery to solve. That one is fairly easy. The others are not and could lead to his and Scotty's doom!
Book 17: The Flaming Mountain.
Rick discovers a mystery of rock melting that is like butter on a hot stove! It is hard to believe, but that is what is happening on San Luz, a small island off the coast of South America. When Rick and his pal Don 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. Solving the why and how is nearly more than Rick can manage.
Book 18: The Flying Stingaree.
What's shaped like a sting ray and flies over Chesapeake Bay? This is the eerie riddle which confronts Rick and Scotty when, seeking shelter from a storm, they anchor the houseboat Spindrift in a lonely cove along the Maryland shore and spot the flying stingaree. The "thing," they learn, is not the only one of its kind--one is actually suspected of having kidnapped a man! As clues mount up, the trail leads to Calvert's Favor, a historic plantation house and to the very bottom of Chesapeake Bay.
Book 19: The Ruby Ray Mystery.
Rick and Scotty are asked by their friend Steve Ames of JANIG to shadow a famous doctor while he is in Copenhagen at a medical conference. With no real explanation as to why, they agree. This begins them on a hide and seek game that sees them following Dr. Keller and at least three or perhaps four other groups of people through Europe. Without knowing who is who and who is or is not friendly, the boys have to rely on their own wits to remain out of trouble. It comes to find them and they soon discover themselves face-to-face with a man who admits he will kill them if he believes they are not on his side. But, what side is it?
Rick and Scotty take part in setting up for a historic laser-powered communication project in Africa. But, as they go about locating the place where their end of the equipment must be set up, they are kidnapped along with one of the Spindrift scientists. Finding themselves unwilling slaves to a Emir who seeks to revenge for a supposed slight, they plot and plan their escape. They do, but only to find themselves in the hands of rival slavers. It is one of Rick's worst and most painful adventures and one he hopes to see the back of as quickly as possible, but the unrelenting desert may have other plans!
A brand new, top secret Mach-5 aircraft is under development in Nevada, and Rick and Scotty volunteer to help their friend, Steve Ames of JANIG, keep an eye on supposed technology thefts by becoming workers on the project. Only the head of the project knows their real reason for being there, and puts them to work as any other technician. Rick's sister, Barby, and her friend Jan come along seeking adventure and to get the chance to fly Rick's new rocket-propelled backpack. As the first test day nears, word of a failure leaks and the race is on to find out where and who. But, the girls get into trouble when the bad guys find them snooping, and set a deadly fire to shut them up!
After attending a science convention in Copenhagen, Rick is joined by Scotty for what is supposed to be a vacation. But, even before it begins, their room is ransacked and strange people begin to approach them insisting that Scotty "give it" to them.
From a motorcycle gang who try to kill then in a windmill to a pretty girl who finds Scotty attractive, the mystery deepens until they discover what "it" is and set out to find the criminal behind their troubles.
Even an old friend can't help them once they confront the Deadly Dutchman!
Rick and the Sprindrift gang spot a tugboat off shore towing an oil rig through a hurricane. But, it flounders and must be cut loose where it sinks. The problem is, Rick and Scotty spotted a mysterious man near shore just as the hurricane hit and can't figure why he would be there. Then, a mysterious visit by the tug captain and company owner set his senses tingling as they seek to get him to agree the tugboat did "everything right."
After diving and finding the rig in 200 feet of water, they are shocked when the tug comes back and drags it over to a deep ocean trench as if trying to hide it. But, why? They must deep dive to find out the secret and to get the bad guys!
Taken from a printing a very limited run of ONLY 500 COPIES made available 20 years after the series was cancelled. The story concerns Rick, Scotty, Barby and Jan as they befriend a trio of magicians who have just moved into an old house, one that was originally built by the greatest modern day magician, Mysto. But, with Mysto having died in an asylum, and only the bank holding control of the property, why is it that strange, magical, impossible things are happening to the new magicians?
In this final Rick Brant story, he must unravel the mystery, find out who the ghost haunting the house is, what's thumping, and restore things to the way they should be.
