The Secret of Thunder Mountain by Fran Striker - 1952: A Tom Quest Adventure

A rare and unique find. 'Inside I'm like new!' (though old). This is a 'Tom Quest' young-adult western adventure tale, from the "Tom Quest Adventure Stories" series as listed on the back cover. Tom Quest is the central character in a series of eight adventure novels for adolescents set in the American West and Mexico, written by Lone Ranger series author Fran Striker. Nice young reader's book.

Found this review online: ""The Secret of Thunder Mountain" (#6), utilizes Gulliver's Texas ranch as a setting- a ranch that Gulliver seems to spend precious little time on. Here a cavern in a nearby peak is being utilized by ruthless killers who robbed an armored car of three million dollars in gold several years before. At Thunder Mountain, the gang has high-powered electric furnaces to melt the gold and local rocks together to form an appearance of ore which they then hope to be able to "legitimately" reprocess without suspicion. But their huge electrical generators and furnaces produce a loud static interference on television and high-frequency radio bands, and in an effort to track down the location of this static in order to help out a friendly old man whose television reception is being ruined, Tom builds a radio direction-finder which is, incidentally, described with complete technical accuracy. Plotting on a map from two different locations the directional readings for the static, Tom finds that the two lines on his map meet at Thunder Mountain. Was the mine on Thunder Mountain haunted? Tom Quest had to go through an amazing adventure before he found out. This book contains some of Fran Striker's very best writing, from the descriptions of Hamilton Quest's somber victorian apartment in New York City to the killer waiting in the weeds of a vacant lot in Texas, sweating in the hot sun and slapping at a bug on his hand. The tone, detail, and pace of this book are unsurpassed."

Good+! Well-preserved considering its age however there is age-tanning to pages. All pages are intact with NO highlighting! NO MARKS! NOT ex-library, name stamped on FEP. The spine is very good except for a minor tear at the top & bottom, the binding is tight and the hinges strong, with no creases. Good boards with bright colors; no stains, but minor corner bumps. The pictures depict the actual book you will receive. Generally, ships on the same business day! This larger and heavier volume may require a small additional shipping charge. Ships with Tracking Number! Countries other than the USA will require an additional shipping cost