Bruce Campbell
Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone; "Machine Gun" Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope.
This gripping true-crime classic was originally written in 1963 and published just weeks after the last prisoner was escorted off Devil's Island,
...12 tales featuring boy detectives, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Dective" to entries in the Mercer Boys, Ken Holt, Hal Keene, and Skippy Dare series, and lots more -- over 1,400 pages of great reading! Here are:
THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST, by Capwell Wyckoff
THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON BOX, by Bruce Campbell
THE AIR MYSTERY OF ISLE LA MOTTE, by E. J. Craine
THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON, by Hugh Lloyd
PRISONERS IN DEVIL’S BOG, by Hugh