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The Blue Ghost Mystery

Harold L. Goodwin

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straight in, past the range of light filtering in from the entrance. Nowhere was there a sign of human occupancy or activity, except for the ancient marks on the tunnel walls made by tools in the hands of miners long dead.

"Nothing here," Rick said, and his voice was lost in the emptiness of the shaft.

Scotty grunted. "Another dead end. Okay, where did the ghost come from?"

Rick didn't know. He couldn't even imagine. He puzzled over it as they walked outside, then suddenly snapped his fingers. "Did you see any sign of water in there? Or a pipe?"

"No. It was dry. No pipes. Why?"

"How was the original artesian well driven? Right into the hillside? If so, why didn't the mine tunnel strike water?"

Scotty scratched his chin. "Now that you mention it, I haven't the faintest idea. Have you?"

"Negative. I can't ever remember having so few ideas. But it's strange. We'll have to ask Dr. Miller about it."

"Maybe the answer is deeper in the mine," Scotty replied. "Let's go back and see."

Rick reminded him that they had no lights. "I suppose we could make torches out of junk from the trash cans."

"Easy, if we can find some newspapers."

There were several trash cans spotted around the picnic area, and it was indicative of the kind of neat people in the vicinity that they were used. There was no litter.

The second can yielded two entire newspapers, one a bulky edition of a Washington paper, the other a ten-page local sheet. The boys split the papers evenly, then rolled them tightly. They frayed one end with a jackknife to make the torch.

"Got a match?" Rick asked.

Scotty looked at him blankly, then grinned. "No, have you?"

"No match, no flint or steel, no ... hey, wait! I've got a pocket lens!"

Rick's enthusiasm for microscopy had extended to the purchase of a twelve-power pocket lens to supplement the mic

Rose 11/11/2022
A nice, low-stakes spooky mystery that's got a lot of science mixed in, but in a way that's natural to the story.
Rex 07/07/2021
Rather pedestrian as far as these kinds of stories go. Rick and Scott investigate a civil war ghost haunting a farm in Virginia. The ghost is created by dry ice and film projector. It is used to scare people away from a mining scam put on by a con man.
Josiah 05/03/2021
Of all the youth book series in the mid-1900s that strove to emulate the Stratemeyer Syndicate's Tom Swift franchise, the Rick Brant Science-Adventures is among the more prominent. Harold Leland Goodwin (writing under the pseudonym John Blaine) had a gift for writing about innovative science, and th
Kent 08/13/2020
This is a pretty straight forward mystery.
It was nice to see Jan and Barbie involved although they didn't contribute enough to the solution.
The science/engineering stuff was weaker than most of the books, but there was some good geology.
The foxhole radio they make was pretty cool to read about in th
Craig 11/08/2018
The Blue Ghost Mystery is the fifteenth Rick Brant adventure, and is one of my favorites of the series; it's definitely the best of the later books. It was published in 1960, and I can't help but wonder if it wasn't an influence on the Scooby-Doo cartoons; the formula is all there, except for the do
Elizabeth 05/21/2017
I fell in love with The Blue Ghost Mystery almost at once, but then again, I am an old school Scooby Doo fan. Barby and Jan Miller have sighted a Civil War ghost while vacationing in Virginia. Rick and Scotty fly out and join them hoping to solve the mystery.
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