The Wailing Octopus (A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story, Book 11)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Reprint, MAD-49500-11-3, front jacket flap lists through The Egyptian Cat Mystery, prelim lists through The Flaming Mountain, 15 Ken Holt titles on rear panel, 8 Tom Corbett titles on rear flap. Very good in good jacket. A few tears and creases along jacket edges with minimal loss from corners, ink stamp on front jacket panel. 1956 Hard Cover. 209 pp. Reddish pink tweed boards, black titles, map of Spindrift Island on endpapers. "Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24. In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the Spindrift Foundation, a group of scientists. Rick and Scotty are involved in various adventures at home and abroad.