Victor Appleton 3 hr 14 min read

When a chest holding the secrets of his greatest inventions is at stake, Tom Swift must outwit thieves and enemies to protect the priceless knowledge locked within.

Victor Appleton's 1925 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a coveted chest of inventive secrets, plotting villains, and clever heroics, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 14 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).