Rick Brant has sent Ken three Megabucks units which are small units with which the boys can speak to each other over a small distance. This was an agreed-upon bit of cross promotion between the authors of the Ken Holt and Rick Brant series.
I greatly enjoyed this book.
On page one, I saw that the book opens in Greece. Oh, no! I have an aversion to books set in Greece because I can't stand The Greek Symbol Mystery. I hate that book!
Fortunately, this book is better than The Greek Symbol Mystery.
The book opens with the boys touring Greece. Next, the Golden Key is stolen from a museum via a ruse. Hmm... this part reminds me of the Three Investigators book, The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure.
I enjoyed most of this book, although some parts of it weren't that interesting to me.
2 comments:
On "The Sultan's Scimitar," the boys in their suits look like young missionaries going door to door.
The Mystery Of The Plumed Serpent
I liked this book. The first time I read it I did not know about Rick Brant. I assume a youth of the era would get the reference. The medallion reminded me of The Hardy Boys The Clue In The Embers (1955) where Tony Prito inherits a medallion with strange markings on it sparking a Central America adventure. Mayhaps a recycled plot? The ending was more plausible than the comparable Hardy Boy adventure, and was suspenseful.
The Mystery Of The Sultan’s Scimitar
Having decades of TV and movies in my memory I can’t help seeing various scenes when I read some books. The boat in Death On The Nile was in my mental background while reading this book. The cover art did a good job setting the ambiance for the street scapes. I liked that it was difficult to tell who was good, and who was bad. I like this book, and was sad it was the last in the series.
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