Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure Series
Summaries

Biff and Kamuka find their days crowded with the hazards and thrills of jungle travel as they trek through a wilderness echoing with the threat of "Macu"—the dreaded headhunters.  And waiting for them at the end of the trail are a shock and a surprise beyond their wildest dreams.

But even with a warning, Biff is still a boy alone in a strange country.  As be disembarks at Rangoon, the young adventurer walks straight into an attempted kidnapping.  Using his wits, Biff escapes from his captors only to learn that his uncle is somewhere in the heart of Red China, perhaps in serious trouble.

With the help of his new friend, Likake Mahenili, Biff soon learns that more than sharpened wits are necessary to defeat the mysterious forces working against them.

More than once, Biff and his friend Miguel must pit courage and ingenuity against possible disaster.  A talking statue, a legendary war god, a rare fire opal, a dagger, and a mask—all become forces of destruction which threaten the lives of everyone involved in the hazardous excavation.

Biff Brewster is no stranger to adventure, but Africa presents him with a lifetime supply of excitement and thrilling experiences.  Stampeding zebras, dog-faced baboons, fleet-footed cheetahs, wild dogs, and death-dealing cobras challenge man's right to invade their primitive domain.  Biff's friend Monda, the native boy, proves himself master of the plains when he saves Biff from an enraged water buffalo.

But "delivery" in Alaska is a word full of hidden danger—Biff and his father must transport the boxes by air and place their lives in the hands of the bush pilot who flies them across the most treacherous terrain known to man.  But Biff has implicit faith in the pilot, and in Tish, a friendly Eskimo boy.  When a fierce squall forces them to land on a 75-foot thickness of ice, they have only their two feet to carry them across vast Ghost Glacier to a mine in the ice.

Ambushed in a ruined temple by converging bands of murderous thugs, attacked by a man-eating tiger, and menaced by the Yeti—the "Abominable Snowman," the boys overcome almost insurmountable odds to accomplish their mission.

Biff and Derek, Brom Zook's seventeen-year-old son, accidentally board the same plane in Miami and innocently exchange "identities" to play a joke.  However, the joke backfires when Biff is kidnapped at the Willemstad Airport by the unscrupulous adventurers who want the pearl fishery.

The curator of the museum, determined to prove his theory that the "forgotten Pharaoh" was banished from the Valley of Kings, arms Biff with a precious golden scarab to guard him in the Valley of Ghosts.  Biff successfully braves the perils of the mummy's menace, only to find himself challenged by worshippers of Thoth, an even older deity of the dead, who supposedly lost the battle of the gods centuries ago.

The color, violence, and mystery of the Forbidden Land are revealed to Biff as he and his Tibetan companion, Taz Norkay, push deeper and deeper into its uncharted trails.

As Biff and his pal cycle along, they become increasingly aware that something they don't understand is going on, and they seem to be in the center of it.

When Biff learns of the disappearance of Suji, the golden stallion, a royal gift to Ahmed, he offers to help in the search.  A trail of horses' hoofs leads the two boys to an isolated village in the middle of the desert where they stumble upon a deserted minaret.  From its top, they view a black Cadillac and a strange outline of an oil mechanism fingered in the sand; they overhear a man in a white abbas speaking with another in Arab dress; and an odor peculiar to oil reaches their nostrils.

Why does the mysterious bearded stranger thrust a huge gold coin into Biff's hand in Market Square?  And who is the sallow, scowling man who follows them in Interlaken?  Most baffling of all, how does the man they suspect manage to vanish from an aerial tram high over the mountain passes?