The Diamond Cave Mystery

Troy Nesbit

Chuck Bennett discovers from an old family bible that many years ago a man from Missouri cached his diamonds somewhere in the area of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. When news gets out about the discovery, so-called descendants of the man are eager to question Chuck and his friend and make off with the loot. The boys manage to foil all of these would-be heirs and ultimately put their discovery to good use.

The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena—caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes, and forests—and a sense of the past as seen through archaeology. In many of the narratives, events of long ago are seen to have left traces of their passing. Notwithstanding the fact that the books were written in the 1950s, the progressive Franklin Folsom (alias Troy Nesbit) had refreshing views of women, Native Americans, and the environment, and he was prescient in having his characters often oppose corporate and government efforts to develop wilderness areas.

Taylor Trade Publishing

Pages: 280 • Trim: 5½ x 7¼

978-1-58979-809-0 • Paperback • May 2013 • $12.95 • (£9.99)

978-1-58979-810-6 • eBook • May 2013 • $6.99 • (£4.99)

Series: The Wilderness Mystery Series

Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Westerns

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Summary

Chuck Bennett discovers from an old family bible that many years ago a man from Missouri cached his diamonds somewhere in the area of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. When news gets out about the discovery, so-called descendants of the man are eager to question Chuck and his friend and make off with the loot. The boys manage to foil all of these would-be heirs and ultimately put their discovery to good use.

The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena—caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes, and forests—and a sense of the past as seen through archaeology. In many of the narratives, events of long ago are seen to have left traces of their passing. Notwithstanding the fact that the books were written in the 1950s, the progressive Franklin Folsom (alias Troy Nesbit) had refreshing views of women, Native Americans, and the environment, and he was prescient in having his characters often oppose corporate and government efforts to develop wilderness areas.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

Pages: 280 • Trim: 5½ x 7¼

978-1-58979-809-0 • Paperback • May 2013 • $12.95 • (£9.99)

978-1-58979-810-6 • eBook • May 2013 • $6.99 • (£4.99)

Series: The Wilderness Mystery Series

Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Westerns

Author

Troy Nesbit was a nom de plume of the late Franklin Folsom, a graduate of the University of Colorado and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1928. The author of over eighty books under various names, he was also an avocational anthropologist and wrote several scholarly books on Native Americans of the American Southwest.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: “There’s More to This”
Chapter 2: The Mysterious Drawer
Chapter 3: Clues
Chapter 4: Caves to Explore
Chapter 5: Under the Stones
Chapter 6: Millions of Bats
Chapter 7: The Name on the Wall
Chapter 8: Knock and It Shall Be Opened
Chapter 9: A Low-down Genius
Chapter 10: Collecting Evidence
Chapter 11: Trouble at the Bide-a-Wee
Chapter 12: Sammy Again
Chapter 13: In Carlsbad Caverns
Chapter 14: The “Ghost” of Abijah Jones
Chapter 15: Trouble at Black River
Chapter 16: The Missing Clue
Chapter 17: Where Was a Cave
Chapter 18: Discovery
Chapter 19: Spies on the Highway
Chapter 20: Through the Enemy Lines
Chapter 21: The Creature in the Cave
Chapter 22: Surrounded!
Chapter 23: The Second Row
Chapter 24: Trapped
Chapter 25: Sammy’s Nickel
Chapter 26: The Last of the Joneses

Reviews

[Folsom] brought high ideals to the [mystery] genre, and he deserves to be better known among those who read and collect series literature.

— The Mystery & Adventure Series Review

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