Books with author john d. fitzgerald

Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tomas ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.as attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesnat have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D. finds that his little brain may not be so ordinary after all....

The book falls on the adventures of two brothers in a small Utah settlement in the late 1890's, one of which tends to swindle money and belongings out of every boy in that town for his own personal enjoyment with his "Great Brain" in a series of funny adventures. In this book, they believe that the swindling boy, Tom, had reformed his ways in order to get a bike for Christmas, but is back at it again simply to stop the bragging of one boy and his coonskin cap. But his ways also tend to help a lot of people in the town, like how Tom tutors the way of a rebellious girl named Dotty who wears boys clothes and is completely uneducated in all matters of sense, and also starting his own newspaper which solves the mystery of a bank robbery in that town with the theft of $10,000, which is quite a huge sum of money to a pair of boys who get an allowance of 10 cents a week. (Amazon customer)