Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr read

A spooky invitation, death at Costin's Creek, an old mine, and a glowing blue ghost that seems to have nowhere it could have gone, a science-adventure mystery for young inventor Rick Brant.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1960 novel is a brisk juvenile science-adventure from the beloved Rick Brant series. Fast, clever, wholesome period SF. Read it for a rousing boys' mystery where scientific method and pluck confront an eerie glowing apparition, and the ghost proves to have a very earthly explanation.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).