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!!Tropes in the series:
* AbnormalAmmo: In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
* AbnormalAmmo: In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
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* AbnormalAmmo: In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any barefoot pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
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* ScoobyDooHoax: 'The Blue Ghost Mystery'' features an apparent ghost from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar as part of a real estate scam.
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* ScoobyDooHoax: 'The ''The Blue Ghost Mystery'' features an apparent ghost from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar as part of a real estate scam.
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Written by Harold L. Goodwin and Peter J. Harkness (who use the pen name John Blaine), ''Rick Brant'' is a science fiction series that lasted from 1947 to 1968 (with one unpublished book finally being released in 1990). The series shares many similarities with the ''Literature/TomSwift'' books (especially the second series), but the science and the stakes of the adventures are more realistic. Teenaged Rick Brant is the adventurous son of the founder of the Spindrift Foundation, a benevolent scientific organization based on an island off the coast of New Jersey. Many of the books are set in exotic locales the protagonists travel to for foundation business.
Books
# The Rocket's Shadow (1947)
# The Lost City (1947)
# Sea Gold (1947)
# 100 Fathoms Under (1947)
# The Whispering Box Mystery (1948)
# The Phantom Shark (1949)
# Smugglers' Reef (1950)
# The Caves of Fear (1951)
# Stairway to Danger (1952)
# The Golden Skull (1954)
# The Wailing Octopus (1956)
# The Electronic Mind Reader (1957)
# The Scarlet Lake Mystery (1958)
# The Pirates of Shan (1958)
# The Blue Ghost Mystery (1960)
# The Egyptian Cat Mystery (1961)
# The Flaming Mountain (1962)
# The Flying Stingaree (1963)
# The Ruby Ray Mystery (1964)
# The Veiled Raiders (1965)
# Rocket Jumper (1966)
# The Deadly Dutchman (1967)
# Danger Below! (1968)
# The Magic Talisman (1990)
!!Tropes in the series:
* AbnormalAmmo: In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Most of the action in ''Stairway to Danger'' takes place in a run-down amusement park that was closed after the rollercoaster proved to be dangerous.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The villain of ''Stairway to Danger'' causes a car accident that injures Rick's younger sister Barby while fleeing the police. Rick has a personal beef with the guy for the rest of the book.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Spindrift scientists Hobart Zircon (a towering GeniusBruiser physicist) and Julius Weiss (a short mathematician) frequently appear together.
* EvilPoacher: Cunner, a henchman from ''Sea Gold,'' is locally despised for his illegal and unethical fishing methods.
* FakingTheDead: The villain of [[spoiler:the first book leaps off a cliff to his apparent death, but its later revealed that he swam back to shore, as he reappears as the villain two books later.]]
* FriendlySniper: Rick's good-natured sidekick Scotty is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran who is very attached to his rifle and uses it to injure or intimidate villains in several books.
* HarpoonGun: Rick, Scotty, and a trio of villainous divers shoot at each other with spear guns in ''The Wailing Octopus.''
* HiddenElfVillage: ''The Lost City'' feature a valley inhabited by the descendants of Genghis Khan's subjects, who have had almost no contact with the modern world since Khan's death.
* IAteWhat: In ''The Phantom Shark,'' Barty is appalled when her dinner turns out to be a kind of bat.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: TagAlongKid Chahda is the fourteenth child of his parents.
* PreciousPuppy: The Brant family's puppy Dismal is a bright and adorable dog who shows [[ComicBookTime even fewer signs of aging than the human characters.]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Scotty lied about his age to join the army in his early teens.
* RuthlessModernPirates: The villains of ''The Pirates of Shan'' are a massive gang of heavily-armed South Pacific pirates who kidnap and threaten people at will, although they also have enough PragmaticVillainy not to commit needless murders that will attract the authorities.
* ScoobyDooHoax: 'The Blue Ghost Mystery'' features an apparent ghost from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar as part of a real estate scam.
Books
# The Rocket's Shadow (1947)
# The Lost City (1947)
# Sea Gold (1947)
# 100 Fathoms Under (1947)
# The Whispering Box Mystery (1948)
# The Phantom Shark (1949)
# Smugglers' Reef (1950)
# The Caves of Fear (1951)
# Stairway to Danger (1952)
# The Golden Skull (1954)
# The Wailing Octopus (1956)
# The Electronic Mind Reader (1957)
# The Scarlet Lake Mystery (1958)
# The Pirates of Shan (1958)
# The Blue Ghost Mystery (1960)
# The Egyptian Cat Mystery (1961)
# The Flaming Mountain (1962)
# The Flying Stingaree (1963)
# The Ruby Ray Mystery (1964)
# The Veiled Raiders (1965)
# Rocket Jumper (1966)
# The Deadly Dutchman (1967)
# Danger Below! (1968)
# The Magic Talisman (1990)
!!Tropes in the series:
* AbnormalAmmo: In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Most of the action in ''Stairway to Danger'' takes place in a run-down amusement park that was closed after the rollercoaster proved to be dangerous.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The villain of ''Stairway to Danger'' causes a car accident that injures Rick's younger sister Barby while fleeing the police. Rick has a personal beef with the guy for the rest of the book.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Spindrift scientists Hobart Zircon (a towering GeniusBruiser physicist) and Julius Weiss (a short mathematician) frequently appear together.
* EvilPoacher: Cunner, a henchman from ''Sea Gold,'' is locally despised for his illegal and unethical fishing methods.
* FakingTheDead: The villain of [[spoiler:the first book leaps off a cliff to his apparent death, but its later revealed that he swam back to shore, as he reappears as the villain two books later.]]
* FriendlySniper: Rick's good-natured sidekick Scotty is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran who is very attached to his rifle and uses it to injure or intimidate villains in several books.
* HarpoonGun: Rick, Scotty, and a trio of villainous divers shoot at each other with spear guns in ''The Wailing Octopus.''
* HiddenElfVillage: ''The Lost City'' feature a valley inhabited by the descendants of Genghis Khan's subjects, who have had almost no contact with the modern world since Khan's death.
* IAteWhat: In ''The Phantom Shark,'' Barty is appalled when her dinner turns out to be a kind of bat.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: TagAlongKid Chahda is the fourteenth child of his parents.
* PreciousPuppy: The Brant family's puppy Dismal is a bright and adorable dog who shows [[ComicBookTime even fewer signs of aging than the human characters.]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Scotty lied about his age to join the army in his early teens.
* RuthlessModernPirates: The villains of ''The Pirates of Shan'' are a massive gang of heavily-armed South Pacific pirates who kidnap and threaten people at will, although they also have enough PragmaticVillainy not to commit needless murders that will attract the authorities.
* ScoobyDooHoax: 'The Blue Ghost Mystery'' features an apparent ghost from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar as part of a real estate scam.
