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 ten days of danger,
intrigue, and suspense.
Simultaneously, on Spindrift Island off the New Jersey
coast, Rick and Scotty accept the well-meant invitation from Dr. Parnell
Winston, of the Spindrift Scientific Foundation staff, to join him on an
assignment in Egypt to investigate mysterious signals from a radio telescope
recently constructed by the Egyptian Astronomical Society.
And when an affable merchant asks Rick and Scotty to
deliver a small statue of a stylized Egyptian cat to a bazaar in Cairo, the
boys agree, never dreaming that the harmless-looking model will place them
directly between two ruthless adversaries both dead set on one objective --
gaining possession of the Egyptian cat.
In the shadows of the ancient pyramids, while fiercely
guarding the mysterious cat at great personal risk, and working with Dr.
Winston on an outer-space puzzle five thousand light years old, the boys
find the surprising answers to both mysteries.
Follow Rick and Scotty through all their challenging
science-adventures. If your local bookseller does not have them in stock, he
will be glad to order them for you."
Copyright © 1961, The John Blaine/Rick Brant Trust |
