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by Hugh Lloyd


  Good, clean football at its best—and in addition, rattling stories ofmystery and schoolboy rivalries.

  GARRY GRAYSON’S HILL STREET ELEVEN; or, The Football Boys of Lenox. GARRY GRAYSON AT LENOX HIGH; or, The Champions of the Football League. GARRY GRAYSON’S FOOTBALL RIVALS; or, The Secret of the Stolen Signals. GARRY GRAYSON SHOWING HIS SPEED; or, A Daring Run on the Gridiron. GARRY GRAYSON AT STANLEY PREP; or, The Football Rivals of Riverview. GARRY GRAYSON’S WINNING KICK; or, Battling for Honor. GARRY GRAYSON HITTING THE LINE; or, Stanley Prep on a New Gridiron. GARRY GRAYSON’S WINNING TOUCHDOWN; or, Putting Passmore Tech on the Map. GARRY GRAYSON’S DOUBLE SIGNALS; or, Vanquishing the Football Plotters. GARRY GRAYSON’S FORWARD PASS; or, Winning in the Final Quarter.

  BOB CHASE BIG GAME SERIES By FRANK A. WARNER

  In these thrilling stories of outdoor life the hero is a younglumberjack who is a crack rifle shot. While tracking game in the Mainewoods he does some rich hunters a great service. They become interestedin him and take him on various hunting expeditions in this country andabroad. Bob learns what it is to face not only wildcats, foxes and deerbut also bull moose, Rocky Mountain grizzly bears and many other speciesof big game.

  BOB CHASE WITH THE BIG MOOSE HUNTERS BOB CHASE AFTER GRIZZLY BEARS BOB CHASE IN THE TIGER’S LAIR BOB CHASE WITH THE LION HUNTERS

  _A Skippy Dare Mystery Story_ AMONG THE RIVER PIRATES

  _By_ HUGH LLOYD

  Nearly all the boats and barges on the River that was “home” to Skippybelonged to old Flint. A grasping and merciless man, Flint alsocontrolled the lives of most of the people who tried to earn theirliving on the River. For many years Skippy’s father had worked for him;loading and unloading illicit merchandise—aware that he was involved incrooked business but reaping little benefit beyond a meager livingtherefrom.

  Honest, courageous young Skippy finally persuades his father to leaveFlint’s employ—but it is impossible to escape the evil net in which theyare caught. Before they succeed in getting away from the illicit rivertraffic, they become involved with the police—the boy’s father isaccused of murder—Skippy is forced into a crooked game—and the Basin,where the condemned river barges provide homes for the river people isblown up. In one great blast men, women, children and all their worldlygoods are destroyed in a sea of lapping flames.

  In the end Skippy’s fearless honesty and loyalty bring happy freedom tohimself and his best pal—his father.

  Hal Keen Mystery Stories

  _By_ HUGH LLOYD

  Follow Hal Keen on his hunts for clues and criminals. There are plentyof thrills and shivers in these stories of adventure and mystery.

  THE HERMIT OF GORDON’S CREEK

  The disappearance of two airmail pilots leads to a mystery that centersabout an abandoned mine.

  KIDNAPPED IN THE JUNGLE

  A hint of buried treasure leads Hal deep into the Central Americanjungle.

  THE COPPERHEAD TRAIL MYSTERY

  What was the meaning of the baffling and blood curdling events thatcentered about the ranch where Hal Keen had gone in search of gold?

  THE SMUGGLERS’ SECRET

  Hal Keen sets out to get to the bottom of a mystery that threatens thesafety of a whole community.

  THE MYSTERIOUS ARAB

  Mystery, excitement, murder in a scientist’s camp in the jungles ofAfrica.

  THE LONESOME SWAMP MYSTERY

  The lonely and mysterious swamp gave up its secret only after a seriesof terrifying events.

  THE CLUE AT SKELETON ROCKS

  Hal Keen finds mystery and adventure in and about a lonely lighthouseoff the Maine coast.

  THE DOOM OF STARK HOUSE

  A menacing cloud of mystery hangs over the isolated and snow bound Starkhouse.

  THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON

  Hal’s sympathy for an exiled white family leads him on to solve thetragic mystery that surrounds the lost mine.

  _Skippy Dare_

  courageous—honest—loyal

  A young “detective” who keeps his head when trouble starts. And Skippy has a way of being in the thick of things

  HIS ADVENTURES MAKE TENSE READING

  He learns the trickery of crooked men on his father’s river barge; hisexperience stands him in good stead when he becomes an office boy in adetective agency—and he proves an invaluable aide to Conne, the greatdetective.... Fearless, fast thinking Skippy is a hero well worthknowing!

  Skippy Dare Mystery Stories by HUGH LLOYD author of the “_Hal Keen Mystery Stories_”

  AMONG THE RIVER PIRATES PRISONERS IN DEVIL’S BOG HELD FOR RANSOM

  GROSSET & DUNLAP · _Publishers_ · New York

  Transcriber’s Notes

  --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.

  --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.

  --Relocated the illustrations (printed on unnumbered pages) to the corresponding paragraph in the text.

  --In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)

 


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