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The Ken Holt Series |
The summaries for #13-18 have been adapted from the front flaps of the dust jackets. | ||
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#10 The Mystery of the Green Flame | ||
![]() Right after this encounter, the boys are approached by Mort Phillips, who claims to be a student from Mexico City. Phillips needs a ride back to Mexico City, and the boys reluctantly let him hitch a ride. The boys soon realize that Mort is not the student that he claims to be and is instead a government agent. Phillips agrees to let the boys aid him as he follows several suspects through Mexico in an attempt to discover their hideout. One suspect is captured but refuses to talk. The other suspects continue to elude Phillips and his men. |
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Ken and Sandy, following one of Ken's unlikely hunches, discover the crooks' hideout. Unfortunately, no one knows about the boys' trip to the hideout, and the boys find themselves in grave danger with no possible escape. | ||
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#11 The Mystery of the Grinning Tiger | ||
![]() The boys' suspicions grow after a man matching the description of the Crandalls' chauffeur turns up in a nearby hospital. The boys suspect that someone attacked the chauffeur and took his place in the Crandalls' limousine in order to kidnap Timothy. The man disappears from the hospital before anyone can identify him for certain. Ken and Sandy begin looking into the chauffeur's background. |
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The trail of clues finally proves that Timothy has indeed been abducted, and Ken and Sandy face grave danger as they attempt to rescue him. | ||
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#12 The Mystery of the Vanishing Magician | ||
![]() Later, Magnus is hospitalized due to an accident, and he is revealed to be Chris Bell, who is wanted for a jewel store robbery. Charges are filed, but Bert knows that Bell can't be a criminal. Ken and the Allens speak to Bell and decide to help clear him of the charges. Unfortunately, the other men involved in the robbery have named Bell as their primary accomplice. Bell maintains that they forced him to do it. |
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Ken and Sandy try to find some means to prove Bell's innocence. They finally get a break, but their adversaries will stop at nothing to prevent them from revealing their knowledge. | ||
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#13 The Mystery of the Shattered Glass | ||
![]() Before they are fully aware of it, the boys are matching wits with one of the wiliest adversaries of their experiencea criminal clever enough to discredit every move the boys make. |
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In an exciting climax, deep in the ship's cargo hold, Ken and Sandy discover almost too late that their quarry is as ruthless as he is clever. Their very lives are at stake when the boys face a man determined to let nothing interfere with the success of his evil plans. | ||
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#14 The Mystery of the Invisible Enemy | ||
![]() But before the evening is over, Ken and Sandy find themselves agreeing to match wits with a criminalan extortioner who quickly proves himself even more clever than the boys at first suspect, who seems to anticipate their very move to uncover his identity. |
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It is only when their lives are in jeopardy that the boys realize their invisible adversary is as deadly as he is clever. Trapped and helpless, Ken and Sandy face the fact that their enemy will stop at nothing to ensure the success of his criminal scheme. | ||
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#15 The Mystery of Gallows Cliff | ||
![]() Working feverishly to find the border leak that has so far defied detection by skilled investigators, Ken and Sandy soon begin to realize the crafty ability of the smuggling ring. Outwitted at almost every turn, the boys are ready to admit defeat when they hit on an idea that leads them to the ruthless criminal brain behind the smuggling operationand into a terrifying trap from which there seems to be no escape. |
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How Ken and Sandy solve the most complex mystery they have ever faced will keep the reader taut with suspense until the very last page of this spine-tingling, adventure-packed story. | ||
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#16 The Clue of the Silver Scorpion | ||
![]() It is when the boys are following the cuff-link clue that they are led into a trap and finally discover why the criminals are after them. But by then it looks as if neither Ken nor Sandy will ever have the opportunity to reveal this information to the police. |
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How the boys manage to avoid the fate intended for them makes this adventure one of the most action-packed and suspenseful they have ever experienced. | ||
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#17 The Mystery of the Plumed Serpent | ||
![]() What begins innocently as a short excursion to show their new friend the wonders of New York City becomes an adventure that takes the three boys thousands of miles to a Mexican city, high in the mountains. There a desperate battle of wits develops between the boys and two sinister strangers intent on possessing the amuletthe key to a long-forgotten treasure. |
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How Ken and Sandy pit all their ingenuity against the criminals' diabolical cleverness, and how they uncover the amazing secret of the plumed serpent, makes another suspense-charged Ken Holt Mystery. | ||
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#18 The Mystery of the Sultan's Scimitar | ||
![]() Minutes after they view the invaluable Knossos cylinderthe Golden Key to the language of the ancient Cretansthis prize artifact is stolen form the Athens Museum. What can they do? Nothing, Ken and Sandy decide. They're just tourists in Greecestrangers in a strange country where they don't know the language. But before twenty-four hours have passed, the boys find themselves involved in this bizarre mystery. A suspicious-acting peddler sells them a Turkish scimitar. A newspaper clipping about the daring theft of the artifact mysteriously vanishes. And a friend from Athens flees when he sights them in the ancient city of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. |
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Unraveling the clues to a weirdly complex international gang takes as much brainwork as bravery. But the Golden Key is worth the effort. And, of course, there's a front-page story in it for the young newsmen. | ||
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