Victor Appleton 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.

Don Sturdy and his uncles join an aerial expedition across the North Pole. A severe blizzard threatens their airship, turning the journey into a struggle with Arctic weather where staying aloft and finding safety become immediate concerns.

Don accompanies his uncles to Alaska to collect specimens and geological samples in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Their scientific expedition takes them through volcanic country, where difficult terrain and natural hazards challenge the young explorer.

A cable from Egypt brings news that Don's father has vanished while pursuing the Tombs of Gold. Don and his uncles travel to investigate, entering a search that leads toward ancient burial places and a family's unresolved mystery.

Don Sturdy travels through the Sahara with his uncles, one a hunter and the other a scientist. Their motor expedition encounters dangerous wildlife and hostile people, requiring the young adventurer to face hazards beyond ordinary travel.

Don accompanies his uncle into the Amazon region to capture large South American snakes alive. The unusual commission requires more than successful hunting, as the expedition must handle powerful reptiles while navigating the dangers of the jungle.

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.

Don explores the Sargasso Sea in a maritime adventure involving derelict vessels and dangerous wildlife. Ship collisions, sharks and a floating mass of seaweed repeatedly threaten his safety, turning exploration into a succession of urgent survival problems.

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.

During an African adventure, Don Sturdy is swept over a major waterfall into territory inhabited by gorillas. Separated by the sudden disaster, the young explorer must confront the dangers of an unfamiliar jungle far from ordinary help.

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.

Don and his traveling party are wrecked in Borneo, leaving them stranded in unfamiliar country. Encounters with local head hunters turn the interruption into a dangerous adventure, testing the young explorer's ability to cope with captivity and escape.

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.

Don and his uncles organize an African expedition to capture unusually large lions alive. Their search places the young adventurer close to dangerous animals, making each encounter a test of hunting skill, caution and teamwork.

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.

Don, Teddy, and their companions travel into Central America's jungles seeking the legendary Temples of Fear. Storms, dangerous wildlife, and warnings about human sacrifice turn the search for a lost Maya civilization into a perilous expedition.

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.

Don and his companions join a whaling ship for an ocean adventure entangled with crime. Alongside the dangers of the voyage, a boy's struggle to prove himself adds personal tension to the expedition's troubles at sea.

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.

Tom Jr. takes his atomic earth blaster to Antarctica in search of molten iron beneath the ice. Rival government spies, severe storms, and the expedition's enormous financial stakes make the venture a test of invention and endurance.

Tom Jr. develops the Sky Queen, a supersonic flying laboratory, despite mechanical difficulties and interference from international enemies. A flight to South America puts him and Bud Barclay in conflict with rivals seeking a uranium-rich mountain.

Tom Jr. builds a remotely controlled robot for work in a dangerous atomic laboratory. Bank robbers and a rogue scientist target the invention, using mechanical crows and sabotage to threaten the laboratory and the young inventor.

Tom Jr. launches his atomic-powered Jetmarine to rescue his father from modern pirates. With Bud Barclay beside him, he faces storms, gunfire, and underwater dangers while pursuing the captors through the Caribbean and their hidden stronghold.

Tom Jr. designs a rocket ship and develops fuel powerful enough for orbital flight. A foreign scientist intent on controlling Earth and space sends spies to undermine the project, forcing Tom and Bud to defend their work.

Tom Jr. plans a vast orbital station with scientific laboratories and broadcasting facilities. Training crews for weightlessness is only part of the challenge, as a hostile enemy and ominous warnings at the launch site threaten the mission.

Tom Jr. uses his underwater helicopter, the Ocean Arrow, to search for a lost space rocket off South America. Evidence of extraterrestrial life makes the missing craft valuable, and unethical scientists race to find it first.

A pilot's report of gas that destroys everything it touches sends Tom Jr. to an African mountain. With his Flying Lab and Terrasphere, he investigates deadly vapors while unexplained events threaten the expedition and its equipment.

A strange glowing moon enters orbit around Earth, and Tom Jr. prepares to explore it with an atmosphere-making machine. Landing reveals rival scientists from a hostile nation determined to claim the satellite and eliminate his expedition.

Bud's plane crashes in the New Guinea jungle, sending Tom Jr. on a rescue mission with his ultrasonic cycloplane. Violent weather, a scientist's ray weapon, and evidence of captivity complicate the search for his missing friend.

Tom Jr. builds an underwater city to collect helium from the ocean floor. While testing his water-repelling invention, he and Bud uncover a dangerous cache, attracting enemies whose attacks threaten both the project and their lives.

Tom Jr. develops a machine to manufacture supplies for a lunar colony, but a scientific group steals a vital secret. Tests at the orbital outpost become a personal emergency when his father disappears into space.

Tom Jr. rushes to complete the Challenger before foreign rivals launch their own moon rocket. An urgent request from extraterrestrial friends facing a deadly disease gives the space race another purpose and even greater stakes.

Tom Jr. travels to Yucatán to test a camera that restores images of worn Maya carvings. Strange symbols suggest a connection with his extraterrestrial friends, while a saboteur threatens his equipment and the jungle expedition.

Exploring a submerged city of gold, Tom Jr. tests inventions to clear ancient buildings and locate a rare metal for a government contract. Equipment failures, a sea monster, and an enemy threaten the underwater expedition.

Tom Jr. seeks a cheaper way to explore space with his experimental Space Kite. A near-disastrous test flight adds technical urgency, while a renegade scientist and an international criminal try to steal his scientific secrets.

An enemy missile disrupts recovery of a Jupiter probe carrying valuable scientific data. Tom and Bud search the sea near St. Paul Rocks, using a new diving device while confronting a submarine with deceptive weapons.

Tom Jr. prepares to receive Exman, an extraterrestrial visitor made of energy. Mysterious earthquakes and Brungarian rebels threaten the encounter, forcing him to develop both a protective body for the visitor and an invention to counter the tremors.

A French scientist's explosive test suggests Tom's unfinished invention has been stolen. While developing a device to observe space, Tom searches for a traitor at Swift Enterprises as Bud prepares for a rival company's Venus mission.

Tom Jr. takes his land, sea, and air vehicle to Kabulistan to help develop the country's resources. Attacks on his expedition conceal a scientific mastermind's effort to keep a long-lost ruby mine from the government.

Tom Jr. designs a floating highway to connect Ngombia's provinces above an impassable jungle swamp. Mysterious attacks threaten construction, while enormous creatures and a scientist missing for twenty years complicate the crews' work deep in the forest.

A supply rocket explodes on its way to the research base on Nestria, leaving personnel stranded. Tom's rescue mission encounters a deadly radiation barrier and a criminal leader determined to seize control of the asteroid base.

A mysterious green object threatens Earth's communications and repels Tom's spacecraft. He sends robots equipped with three-dimensional cameras to investigate, while a hostile scientific group on Earth targets Swift Enterprises at the object's command.

Sabotage interrupts Tom and Bud's underwater Atlantic crossing, and a clue links the attack to a sunken ship. Tom develops an aquatomic tracker to locate its valuable cargo while confronting criminals intent on thwarting the search.

Tom Jr. develops a device to retrieve a stranded Mars probe, but espionage interferes with the mission. A clue leads him to a Himalayan kingdom, where a poisonous lake and mysterious threats create another scientific challenge.

A sonic attack strikes while Tom demonstrates his noise-deadening invention, and scientist John Wyvern disappears. Tom's search leads to Australia as further attacks threaten American cities and the missing scientist holds the key to their defense.

Tom Swift must retrieve an ancient alien capsule from the ocean floor near Easter Island. His new machine makes exploration beneath the seabed possible, but rival extraterrestrial groups offer conflicting claims that complicate the search and whom he can trust.

Commissioned to investigate a passing comet, Tom develops a telesampler for the mission. Brungarian interference and mysterious flying objects complicate his research, while an old clue draws him into a dangerous puzzle with Earth's safety at stake.

Tom's plan to send astronauts around the sun aboard a planetoid is disrupted by a spaceport raid and false accusations. Meanwhile, another small planet captured by Earth's gravity threatens North America, demanding an urgent scientific response.

A strange gas discovered on the moon gives Tom a powerful new energy source. He uses it to develop a high-speed train, but a competing firm's attempts to win a major railroad contract turn the project dangerous.

Tom tests his Dyna-4 submarine in the Mariana Trench while searching for rare metals and encountering mysterious bubble creatures. A government assignment to recover a stolen explosive interrupts the research and leads him into a dangerous undersea pursuit.

Tom plans a tour of the solar system aboard his new Cosmotron Express. A group of criminal scientists wants to seize the ship and destroy Swift Enterprises, forcing Tom and Bud to confront enemies equipped with a powerful weapon.

Tom, Anita and Ben travel to Jupiter's moons aboard the Daniel Boone, aided by Tom's new robot Aristotle. A rival pursuing the moons' mineral wealth threatens their expedition, turning a scientific journey into a struggle to protect the crew.

An alien probe recovered from one of Jupiter's moons contains a disturbing intelligence and a possible breakthrough in starship propulsion. When it is stolen before researchers can uncover its secrets, Tom faces a new mystery involving dangerous extraterrestrial technology.

Returning from Alpha Centauri through hyperspace, Tom and his crew are captured by their enemy David Luna. Imprisoned aboard Luna's astral fortress, they must confront a rival whose control over their journey has turned homecoming into another dangerous adventure.

Sabotage threatens Tom's newly invented fusion-drive spacecraft. Investigating the respected director of an orbiting space colony, he uncovers concerns about another craft and must determine who is endangering Swift Enterprises while concealing serious defects of their own.

Tom and his friends fall into the hands of hostile robots on a distant planet. The machines intend to eradicate biological life, leaving the travelers facing captors whose plans threaten far more than their own chance of escape.

Tom's new hyperdrive carries him and his friends to a distant region of the galaxy. They encounter the peaceful Skree under attack by humanoid invaders and join a struggle whose dangers extend beyond the aliens to Earth itself.

An ecological system called SeaGlobe is stolen from the space colony New America. Tom and his crew travel to Aquilla to recover it, taking their scientific expedition into a search for technology that belongs to the colony.

Tom and his friends confront a mysterious enemy whose plans threaten nuclear destruction. Their investigation becomes a race against time, forcing them to risk their lives before an elusive opponent's actions turn an unfolding crisis into catastrophe.

Accused of causing solar flares that threaten New America, Tom investigates research stations belonging to Swift Enterprises' rival. The search leaves him and his friends trapped on an unstable planet while a wider danger threatens the solar system.

Tom tries to rescue a research vessel caught in a gravitational field near Epsilon III. His photon transfer machine takes the mission into another dimension, where hostile inhabitants imprison the travelers and a new ally offers hope.

Tom's father takes his son, friends and several guests to a mining planet owned by Swift Enterprises. What begins as a holiday becomes a frightening adventure, leaving the visitors confronting dangers instead of enjoying their planned break.

Testing new diving equipment in Bermuda, Tom sets out to investigate the Bermuda Triangle's reputation. Discovering a graveyard of ships on the ocean floor turns his scientific visit into a mystery about what is happening beneath the surface.

Tom's computerized exoskeleton gives his friend Rick extraordinary kickboxing abilities, but its muscle-enhancing power also distorts the user's mind. When another fighter threatens to exploit it, Tom must use the dangerous equipment himself to stop him.

Tom's transforming nuclear-powered vehicle attracts an arms dealer who wants to turn it into a weapon. Kidnapped to a remote South American hideout, Tom must put the untested machine into action against an enemy equipped for battle.