Books with author Josie Blaine

Rick Brant and his friend Scotty are bound for the islands of the South Pacific. But beaches and the tropical climate are not what they have in mind. Deeper than divers have ever been lies the ancient temple of Alta-Yuan. Is the Spindrift's new experiment, the Submobile, capable of withstanding the pressures of the deep? If so, there may be others interested in using it for purposes other than scientific studies. Why is Captain Turk Mallane so anxious to make friends and why does the man with the broken nose keep turning up? Things are just going too smoothly for this adventure on the high seas. Join Rick and Scotty along with Hartson Brant, and Professors Gordon and Zircon as they are forced to defend themselves from a tribe of angry natives and mutineers.

With the success of the lunar rocket in the previous book, The Rocket's Shadow, Rick and Scotty learn that they have been chosen as part of the expedition to Tibet for the second stage of the experiment. From the beginning of the expedition, however, they discover that someone does not want the experiment to succeed. As the date for the lunar relay looms closer, they are still miles away from their destination and in the hands of a dangerous criminal. Their one friend only a small Indian boy who has disappeared. Can they make it in time? Find out in this second volume of the Rick Brant Electronic Adventure Series.

Summer vacation has just begun and Rick and Scotty plan to get jobs at the new Sea Mine Plant in Crayville. But plans are not going so smoothly at the new plant. After several coincidental accidents the boys begin to wonder if it could be sabotage? Doug Chambers' new processes for mining minerals from sea water are extremely valuable. Tom Blakely tries to work the books on a shoestring budget that gets thinner with every accident. What about the guy with the peculiar white face who avoids the two boys like the plague? Why doesn't Cunner Stoles want the plant in Crayville? Will the plant ever open? Join Rick and Scotty as they meet new friends and old enemies in this exciting adventure.

Rick Brant, son of the famous electronic scientist Hartson Brant, finds himself and his new pal Scotty in danger as they seek to unravel a mystery. A traitor is trying to spoil an important experiment being conducted by the Spindrift Island scientists, all for a cut of a two-million-dollar grant. The deadline is only a few days away and still the finger of guilt points to more than one suspect. Who can it be? Join Rick and Scotty in this thrilling adventure which is first volume of the Rick Brant Electronic Adventure Series.

The 7th installment of the young Rick Brant's scientific adventures with his ex-Marine bodyguard Scotty and scientist father. Rick and Scotty use an infrared camera to gather evidence against smugglers in this volume.This is rip-snorting near-future science fiction action from the 1940s-60s, anticipating many inventions that we take for granted today.

Rick Brant and his friends become involved in an attempt to find evidence for sabotage after witnessing the sinking of an oil rig off the Spindrift coast during the passing of a hurricane. What begins with Rick's typical curiosity turns into a hazardous situation when the bad guys start playing with sharks. Somehow, Rick and Scotty must get to that wreck, but now it lays beneath 200 fathoms of water. Will they be able to do a deep-sea dive to find out? What might be waiting for them down there? Join Rick, Scotty, the Spindrift family and a few new friends as they explore the wreck and find there is definitely Danger Below!

It's midnight in Copenhagen when the phone rings in the hotel room of Rick Brant and his pal Scotty. It's Steve Ames with JANIG, the secret intelligence agency in Washington D.C. He has a special job for the boys, tailing a high-profile scientist. It isn't supposed to be anything dangerous, just simply following the guy around. What Steve doesn't know is that he just assigned the boys to follow a man into a deadly rendezvous with Russian and Chinese Communists, Humanitarians, and Anti-Communists radicals. All are bent on their own goals regardless of the other groups. Rick and Scotty find themselves in the middle of a caravan going who knows where. Who is following who? Was the agent in the alley one of their own or an enemy. Join Rick and Scotty as they face off with agents, radicals, and patriotism in this fast-paced adventure through Switzerland and the beautiful Alpine foothills. Will they make out with their lives and the life of the man they've been assigned to follow or is death waiting for them around the corner?

The Rocket's Shadow is the first book in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels. It was written by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin and Peter J. Harkins. It was published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1947. The first edition was published in reddish-tan cloth-bound hardcovers with an illustrated dust jacket. The series title on the front panel of the dust jacket was "A Rick Brant Electronic Adventure." Later printings into the fifties and sixties were published in pictorial hardcovers with no dust jackets. In addition to this change in binding, the series title appearing on the front cover of each book was changed to "A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story." Although the binding and the series subtitle was changed, the cover illustration remained the same. The storyline of the series features teenaged Rick Brant and his former-Marine pal, Don "Scotty" Scott, who live on Spindrift Island, off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the Spindrift Foundation, a group of scientists. Throughout the series, Rick and Scotty are involved in various adventures at home and abroad. In The Rocket's Shadow, the first book of the series, Rick meets Scotty and investigates the sabotage of the Spindrift Foundation's experimental moon rocket.