The Caves of Fear

by John Blaine

Hardcover, 1951

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Available

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Fic Childrens Rick Brant

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Publication

Grosset & Dunlap (1951), Hardcover

Description

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… (more)

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LibraryThing member wirkman
The Rick Brant Science-Adventures were already getting scarce, hard to find, when I was a kid devouring all the series mystery fiction I could. But I persisted, judging the Rick Brant books especially interesting, in no small part because of the science-based storylines. This book, "The Caves of
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Fear," in particular, stands out in my memory. This mystery begins with cryptography and soon there's mention of heavy water, which at the time this was written meant one thing: nuclear energy. Before the end, the team of science-minded sleuths are deep underground in a lake, racing against Chinese secret agents in what turns out to be a very clever espionage tale of nuclear proliferation, c. 1951.
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1951

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Rick Brant, 8

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Fic Childrens Rick Brant

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½ (10 ratings; 3.6)
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