Tom Swift Series
A popular series of forty boys' novels published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1910 and 1941, the Tom Swift books were mostly published under the pen name "Victor A...
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A MOTOR-BOAT AUCTION
“Where are you going, Tom?” asked Mr.
Barton Swift of his son as the young man was slowly
pushing his motor-cycle out of the yard toward the
country road. &ldqu...
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TOM WANTS EXCITEMENT
“Have you anything special to do to-night, Ned?”
asked Tom Swift, the well-known inventor, as he paused
in front of his chum’s window, in the Shopton
National Ba...
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CHAPTER I — A STRANGE OFFER
“Some one to see you, Mr. Tom.”
It was Koku, or August, as he was sometimes called,
the new giant servant of Tom Swift, who made this
announcement to th...
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A STRANGE REQUEST
Tom Swift closed the book of adventures he had been
reading, tossed it on the table, and got up.
Then he yawned.
“What’s the matter?” asked his chum,
Ned Newt...
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AN APPEAL FOR AID
Tom Swift stepped from the door of the machine shop,
where he was at work making some adjustments to the
motor of his airship, and glanced down the road.
He saw a cloud of dust...
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CHAPTER
I A suspicious jeweler
II A midnight visit
III A strange story
IV Andy Foger gets A fright
V A mysterious man
VI Mr. Damon is on hand
VII Mr. Parker predicts
VIII ...
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CHAPTER
I wonderful news
II an unsuspected listener
III Andy is whitewashed
IV A perilous flight
V news from Africa
VI “Beware the head-hunters!”
VII tom makes A promise
VIII...
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Tom Swift Series
Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa