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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 1/17/01, 6:10 PM

I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the Hardy
boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger series.
Now I need to help him find another author.

He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as well as
mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free

Thank for your help

Donna
[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/17/01, 6:38 PM

Tom Swift? There was ususally some popular science and some sort of problem
or mystery solved.

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I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the Hardy
boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger series.
Now I need to help him find another author.

He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as well as
mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free

Thank for your help

Donna
[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca

FROM: Claudia C Breland <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 1/17/01, 9:35 PM

I would suggest the Three Investigators series (by Robert Arthur and
various other authors); other favorites of mine are The Mad Scientist's
Club (& sequels) by Bertrand Brinley, and the Henry Reed books (& others)
by Keith Robertson.

Claudia Breland
King County Library System
Seattle, WA
[removed]@juno.com

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:10:04 -0600 "Fiction_L Administrator"
<[removed]@webrary.org> writes:
> I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the
> Hardy
> boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
> back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger
> series.
> Now I need to help him find another author.
>
> He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as
> well as
> mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free
>
> Thank for your help
>
> Donna
> [removed]@caledon.library.on.ca
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/17/01, 11:32 PM

How about the Sebastian Barth mystery series
by James Howe?

Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/01, 12:33 AM

In a message dated 1/17/2001 7:10:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@webrary.org writes:

<<
I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the Hardy
boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger series.
Now I need to help him find another author.

He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as well as
mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free

Thank for your help

Donna
[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca
>>

How about the old Tom Corbett novels? I have a friend who scours old
bookstores and buys the books for her 2 middle schooler sons.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/01, 12:38 AM

In a message dated 1/17/2001 7:35:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us writes:

<<
Tom Swift? There was ususally some popular science and some sort of problem
or mystery solved.
>>

I think I meant Tom Swift, although I think there were a series of Tom
Corbett novels too. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet? I'm sure Dennis knows!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 8:36 AM

Tom Corbett and Tom Swift were indeed 2 separate series.
Another Stratemeyer mystery series for boys my brother and I loved starred Rick Brant.
Keith Robertson wrote a 2nd mystery series for older boys with continuing characters--3 titles were 3 Stuffed Owls, The Money Machine, and The Crow and the Castle.
John Bellairs wrote 3 fantasy-mystery series for boys--one featured Johnny Dixon, another Anthony Monday, and the 3rd Lewis Barnavelt.
HTH,


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@webrary.org 01/17/01 06:10PM >>>
I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the Hardy
boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger series.
Now I need to help him find another author.

He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as well as
mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free

Thank for your help

Donna
[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca

FROM: Mary Van Dyke <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 9:19 AM

Donna,

After I finished all the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys, I started reading
Sherlock Holmes--your patron may be ready for the master.

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 10:25 AM

Lockhart Amerman wrote a short series of three books which might be interesting to this reader. The main character (whose name I cannot recall) is a teenage boy whose father is a secret agent. As a result, he and his freinds get involved in trying to solve various mysterious schemes. They're written with considerably more style than the Stratemeyer books. Unfortunately they are out of print; however, I think they would still appeal to intelligent young teenagers. (Are you listening, O Mighty Publishers?)

The titles are: Guns in the Heather; Cape Cod Casket; The Sly One.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:10:04 -0600

>I have a patron about 13 years old. He is a tremendous fan of the Hardy
>boys and has now finished all that our system has. He has even gone
>back and read the new ones that have come out in the younger series.
>Now I need to help him find another author.
>
>He likes the fact that the Hardy boys are a continuing series as well as
>mysteries. The mother would like any suggestions to be sex free
>
>Thank for your help
>
>Donna
[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 12:49 PM

At 08:31 AM 1/18/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Tom Corbett and Tom Swift were indeed 2 separate series.
>Another Stratemeyer mystery series for boys my brother and I loved starred
Rick Brant.
>Keith Robertson wrote a 2nd mystery series for older boys with continuing
characters--3 titles were 3 Stuffed Owls, The Money Machine, and The Crow
and the Castle.
>John Bellairs wrote 3 fantasy-mystery series for boys--one featured Johnny
Dixon, another Anthony Monday, and the 3rd Lewis Barnavelt.
>HTH,
>
>
>Marsha Valance

Yup. Specifically:

TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET by "Carey Rockwell" consisted of eight books
published from 1952 through 1956; first was STAND BY FOR MARS!

TOM SWIFT by "Victor Appleton" (later as by "Victor Appleton II" etc.)
originally consisted of 38 books published 1910 through 1935; first
was TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR CYCLE. Series was sort of continuted
in 33 volumes 1954-1971 (first volume TOM SWIFT JR AND HIS FLYING LAB)
as the adventures of the original inventor's son, Tom Swift Jr., who
was himself an inventor. (Tom Sr. and other regular characters from
the first generation also appeared in small parts.) A third series
then appeared in trade pb (first two series were cheap hcs from
Grossett and Dunlap, though a few of the "Jr." series were reprinted
in pb also) consisting of 11 volumes from 1981 through 1984; first
being THE CITY IN THE STARS. A fourth series contained about ten
mass market pbs (six issued in 1991, which was the cutoff point for
R. Reginald's SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE, which is where
I'm getting these dates and figures, and I believe there were at
least three or four thereafter), the first of which was THE BLACK
DRAGON. In the last series, there were at least a couple of "Super
Adventures" in which Tom Swift teamed up with The Hardy Boys--so the
original patron, a Hardy Boys fan, probably already knows this
incarnation (at least) of Tom Swift. (The third and, I think, fourth
series of Tom Swift books ignore the "original" characters and
background of the first two serieses as though they'd never existed.)

RICK BRANT, SCIENCE ADVENTURER was a favorite of mine too, and I've
gone to some trouble to complete my set in recent years, though I've
not had the courage to reread them yet. The pseudonomous author was
"John Blaine," the format again Grosset and Dunlap hcs, and the
series consisted of 23 volumes from 1947 (THE ROCKET'S SHADOW)
through 1968, with the 24th volume--written in the late sixties but
unpublished when G&D dropped the series--finally appearing from a
fan press in 1990 (THE MAGIC TALISMAN).

Unfortunately, most of the above books are collectible and some are
Highly Collectible (and Expensive); I've seen copies of RICK BRANT
#21 through 23 quoted at around one hundred dollars each, and the
last original TOM SWIFT (TOM SWIFT AND HIS PLANET STONE) and the
last four or five of the TOM SWIFT JR. books are also near that
range. (Eighteen of the original TOM SWIFT series are available
free on the Web; check the On-Line Books Page at

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

However nostalgic such a semi-geezer as I may get about the original
Tom Swift, I doubt that a contemporary teen with a Hardy Boys jones
would find him other than risible. But Tom Jr. and especially
Rick Brant might still be attractive to him.

On John Bellairs, it might also be worth noting that one or more of
his serieses (Johnny Dixon, at least) has been continued by Brad
Strickland.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/01, 2:35 PM

In a message dated 1/18/2001 10:18:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us writes:

<<
Donna,

After I finished all the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys, I started reading
Sherlock Holmes--your patron may be ready for the master.

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library >>

Excellent idea! And after he finishes SH, he can try Ellery Queen - also
great mysteries and no sex. After EQ, there's always Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe.

BTW - I used to love the swashbucklers by Rafael Sabatini - and there were
quite a few of them. Of course, they were all costume dramas - but great fun!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/01, 2:47 PM

The reply about Holmes (the master) jogged my memory that my son, who loved the Bellairs books, moved on to Hercule Poirot (who, in his opinion, is the master) at about 13 years.

FROM: "Tom Dillie" <[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 2:53 PM

Donna,
I second the vote for the Three Investigators series. I much preferred
them to the Hardy Boys. It was originally "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three
Investigators" with Hitchcock making a brief appearance at the beginning and
end of the stories. That didn't last too long as I recall. Another
possibility is the Danny Dunn series by Jay Williams and Raymon Abrashkin,
which were mostly published in the 1950s and 60s, although according to our
catalog, there were at least a couple more titles in the 1970s. Abrashkin
died in 1960, and the later books are by Williams alone. As I recall, they
had a contemporary setting, but science fiction plot devices.

Tom Dillie, Adult Services Librarian
Wadsworth Public Library
132 Broad St.
Wadsworth OH 44281

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/18/01, 4:16 PM

At 03:35 PM 1/18/01 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/18/2001 10:18:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us writes:
>
><<
> Donna,
>
> After I finished all the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys, I started reading
> Sherlock Holmes--your patron may be ready for the master.
>
> Mary Van Dyke
> Glenview (IL) Public Library >>
>
>Excellent idea! And after he finishes SH, he can try Ellery Queen - also
>great mysteries and no sex. <snip>


With the possible exceptions of the late works THE LAST WOMAN IN HIS
LIFE and COP OUT (but I wouldn't recommend COP OUT in any case). As
for the former, I can't speak in detail of it without giving away The Big
Surprise Ending, except to say that however admirable in the abstract
the gimmick was, it works only by making the multi-decades-veteran wise
man-of-the-world police commissioner Inspector Queen out as a naive klutz.

I'm not sure of how much crossover appeal there really is between the
Hardy Boys and Ellery Queen, though. (There is the Ellery Queen Jr.
series, which I've never read, which might be a closer match, but I
think the books are long out of print. That one, which was not
written by the Dannay-and-Lee team, featured Ellery's houseboy/adopted
son Djuna as the detective).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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