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eBook available: Motor Matt’s Mystery

Motor Matt's MysteryAnother issue of Motor Stories from our collection is now available as an eBook thanks to the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders. Motor Matt’s Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot picks up where the previous volume left off, soon involving heroic Matt King in a pearl theft.

Probably the most frustrating feature of many dime novels is their heavy use of dialect, which not only tends to reinforce negative stereotypes but also makes reading difficult by forcing the reader to interpret nearly incomprehensible text. Unfortunately for readers, this volume has more dialect than any of the previous adventures due to the introduction of Carl Pretzel, an ex-vaudevillian with a German accent. In spite of this impediment, the book does manage to provide the usual action-packed adventure backed up with a reasonably well-constructed plot.

The entire story can be read online or downloaded through Project Gutenberg.


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Last Modified: October 24, 2014

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