Powell, Van
Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1886-? ) US screenwriter and author of some sf interest for at least two of his series of adventures for boys: the Mystery Boys series of adventures for boys, all five volumes – including The Mystery Boys and the Inca Gold (1931), a Lost Race tale – being published simultaneously; and the Sky Scout Airplane Boys sequence beginning with The Mystery Crash (1932), in which advances in Technology push mildly beyond the probable in 1932. The stories tend to slide carelessly from the improbable to the possibly science-fictional; we list them for convenience. [JC]
Ardon Van Buren Powell
born Macon, Georgia: 31 March 1886
works
series
Mystery Boys
- The Mystery Boys and the Inca Gold (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [Mystery Boys: hb/]
- The Mystery Boys and Captain Kidd's Message (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [Mystery Boys: hb/]
- The Mystery Boys and the Secret of the Golden Sun (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [Mystery Boys: hb/]
- The Mystery Boys and the Chinese Jewels (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [Mystery Boys: hb/]
- The Mystery Boys and the Hindu Treasure (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [Mystery Boys: hb/]
Sky Scout
- The Mystery Crash (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932) [Sky Scout: hb/]
- The Haunted Hanger (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932) [Sky Scout: hb/]
- The Vanishing Air Liner (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932) [Sky Scout: hb/]
- The Ghost of Mystery Airport (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932) [Sky Scout: hb/]
individual titles
- The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1937) [hb/uncredited]
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