Tom Swift Books in Order

Tom Swift takes his new airship, the Red Cloud, on a trial voyage just as the Shopton bank is robbed. Accused while already airborne, he must return home and clear his name before pursuit overtakes him.

Tom prepares an electric racing car for a demanding competition, only to discover a scheme threatening the local bank. Before testing his invention against rival drivers, he must protect his family's savings and expose the criminals.

Tom buys a motorboat at auction, unaware that criminals have hidden a stolen diamond aboard. As he improves its engine and contends with rival Andy Foger, the thieves' interest turns his lake adventures into a dangerous pursuit.

After buying and improving a motorcycle, Tom Swift undertakes an errand involving his father's turbine invention. Men determined to steal the design turn an ordinary ride through country roads into a struggle to protect the family's work.

Tom and his father launch the submarine Advance, then pursue gold aboard a sunken ship off Uruguay. A rival crew follows them, making the underwater search a contest against competitors as well as the dangers of the ocean.

A stranger's account of manufactured diamonds sends Tom and his friends toward Colorado's Phantom Mountain. The scientists behind the operation guard their secret ruthlessly, placing the expedition in danger as it investigates their unusual source of wealth.

Tom takes a newly invented electric rifle and replacement airship on an African expedition. An ivory-hunting journey becomes a rescue mission when he discovers that friends are being held captive, testing both his equipment and his judgment.

A large aviation prize inspires Tom to build a faster airplane for the Eagle Park meet. Missing plans force him to begin again, while sabotage and his father's illness complicate preparations for the demanding race.

A storm sweeps Tom's experimental airship out to sea and strands its passengers on Earthquake Island. Joined by survivors of another wreck, he must assemble a radio from salvaged equipment before the unstable island leaves them without refuge.

Tom and his friends fly north in search of Alaska's legendary Valley of Gold. Andy Foger steals the expedition's map and follows in a rival airship, turning the treasure hunt into a race through dangerous Arctic conditions.

An escaped Russian exile tells Tom of a hidden Siberian platinum mine and a brother still imprisoned there. Tom organizes an expedition with a specially designed glider, combining a search for valuable metal with a dangerous rescue.

Tom develops a powerful searchlight to use aboard his quiet airship while helping the government investigate smugglers. The ability to illuminate their activities from above gives him an advantage, but also draws him into their opposition.

A film producer asks Tom to travel the world capturing unusual sights for cinema audiences. Tom builds an automatic camera and prepares an airship expedition, finding that obtaining dramatic footage brings real dangers beyond the workshop.

A circus owner recruits Tom to locate a missing hunter who reported finding unusually tall people in South America. Traveling by airship, Tom undertakes a search that involves rival interests and eventually threatens his own freedom.

A missionary's message sends Tom toward a lost underground city in Mexico said to contain gold. Andy Foger and other treasure seekers follow, turning exploration into a contest complicated by local opposition and the hazards of the ruins.

Tom develops an enormous cannon intended to defend the Panama Canal. Meanwhile, gratitude to a man who saved his life draws him into financing an opal expedition, linking engineering ambitions with the risks of a treasure search.

Tom experiments with a telephone capable of transmitting photographs while a dishonest businessman presses him over his inventions. When Mr. Damon suffers financial trouble and disappears, Tom's unfinished device becomes entangled with an urgent personal mystery.

Tom prepares a heavily armed airship for government evaluation while unexplained sabotage threatens his workshops. A naval officer warns that foreign agents want his inventions, and the project becomes a struggle to keep military technology from their hands.

Peruvian contractors ask Tom to develop explosives capable of piercing rock that has halted a railway tunnel. Facing a deadline and rival builders, he travels into the Andes, where an archaeologist's search adds another mystery to the work.

Professor Bumper recruits Tom for an expedition seeking a Honduran lost city and golden idol. A rival archaeologist joins the pursuit while also courting Mary Nestor, giving Tom a personal reason to enter the competitive treasure hunt.

Neighbors question Tom's patriotism as other young men enlist during the Great War. He is secretly developing an improved tank for the government, but maintaining that secrecy becomes harder when enemy agents attempt to steal his design.

Tom sets out to silence an airplane engine after a noisy flight with Mary Nestor. A competing aircraft company sees his invention as a threat to its government contracts, subjecting the project to espionage, intimidation and theft.

A stranger recruits Tom to recover gold from a sunken Atlantic ship. Doubts about his partner's honesty grow when Tom discovers links to an oil-rights fraud affecting Mary's relative, complicating an already demanding submarine expedition.

A fireworks factory blaze leads Tom to consider fighting fires from the air. While developing a chemical suppressant and delivery system, he also helps a rescued scientist who believes his valuable dye formula has been stolen.

A struggling railroad hires Tom to build an electric locomotive fast enough to compete with its rival. The rival company's dishonest owner sends men to sabotage the project, turning technical development into a fight for the railway's survival.

Tom builds a flying boat capable of reaching remote places by air and water. When Mr. Damon and Amos Nestor become stranded on an Arctic iceberg, the new craft faces a rescue mission complicated by weather and hostile agents.

Swift Construction agrees to supply drilling equipment to Texas oil prospectors, but their conduct raises doubts about the deal. Tom develops a faster rotary drill while Ned handles financial trouble and rivals interfere with work in the oilfields.

Concerned about theft, Tom stores valuable plans, models and formulas in a heavy guarded chest. After an attack, he discovers that both the chest and its guard have vanished, threatening the secrets behind his inventions.

Tom develops an air transport system intended to carry passengers across the country in a single day. Disgruntled former employees challenge ownership of the idea, using theft and violence while weather and mechanical failures threaten the service.

Tom's father wagers that his son can circle the globe in fewer than twenty days. Building the Air Monarch, a craft for land, water and air, Tom faces sabotage and a competing expedition before beginning the journey.

Tom invents a system for transmitting moving images and sound, threatening established entertainment businesses. Attempts to sabotage the project place him and his friends in danger, forcing him to defend the invention while unraveling the interference.

Tom builds a motor home while Swift Construction faces financial trouble and a dishonest businessman threatens him. A test trip near the mysterious Dismal Mountain brings danger, while a rival's interest in Mary adds another complication.

Tom begins building a giant dirigible, only to discover his client's contract is invalid. Left with mounting costs and no buyer, he must also contend with a forest fire threatening loved ones at a mountain resort.

Tom's experimental sky train suffers repeated accidents while a rival firm develops its own version. A race to a San Francisco exposition offers badly needed prize money, but possible sabotage threatens his invention and financial survival.

Competing scrap dealers ask Tom to develop stronger magnets, leading him to test an underwater version. When a new Navy submarine becomes disabled, his invention faces a much more urgent challenge: rescuing the vessel and its crew.

A deadly war-gas formula vanishes from Tom's protected vault, forcing him to pursue a mysterious thief known as the Leopard. When Ned is kidnapped, a television detector and secret wireless code become crucial to the search.

After a friend's disappearance over the Atlantic, Tom builds a floating airport to protect ocean-crossing aviators. Disputes over its special construction timber bring a hostile navy to the site, while a storm threatens an approaching aircraft.

Tom struggles to perfect a lamp intended to heal illness, then accompanies Koku and Tola to their homeland. News of a fallen meteorite offers a possible breakthrough, but the journey brings dangerous animals and hostile opposition.

Tom needs a rare element to make glass for a telescope capable of observing Mars. Recovering its supply from the Caribbean seabed pits him against deep-sea hazards, industrial spies, and saboteurs determined to stop him.

Tom discovers a substance that absorbs sound and could transform noise control. Its poisonous properties and tendency to disrupt electrical equipment at high temperatures turn the challenge of producing it safely into a dangerous laboratory problem.