Bertrand R Brinley Books In Order

The Mad Scientists’ Club

The boys are back after 40 years! Author’s Edition with previously unpublished text restored from the original manuscripts. A strange sea monster appears on the lake…
a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon…
a valuable dinosaur egg is stolen. Watch out as the Mad Scientists turn Mammoth Falls upside down! Take seven, lively, ‘normal’ boys one an inventive genius give them a clubhouse for cooking up ideas, an electronics lab above the town hardware store, and a good supply of Army surplus equipment, and you, dear reader, have a boyhood dream come true and a situation that bears watching. In the hands of an author whose own work involved technological pioneering, the proceedings are well worth undivided attention, as the boys explore every conceivable possibility for high and happy adventure in the neighborhood of Mammoth Falls. To the unutterable confusion of the local dignitaries and the unalloyed delight of Bertrand Brinley’s fans the young heroes not only outwit their insidious rival, Harmon Muldoon, but emerge as town heroes. Here, captured under one cover, are the fun filled escapades of the young scientists whose exciting capers debuted in Boys’ Life magazine 40 years ago.

The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club

Take cover! The mad, mad, Mad Scientists’ Club of Mammoth Falls is back in action.

Since the publication of the Bertand Brinley’s first book, THE MAD SCIENTISTS’ CLUB, strange things have been happening. Mad Scientists’ clubs have sprouted up, kids and grownups alike have been eagerly reading these incredible adventures, and the persistent, popular demand has been for more adventures!

So our seven young scientists, complete with clubhouse, electronic gear and wild, weird schemes are back again with flying saucers, electronic crime detection, seismographs, rockets, weather control, submarines for real! and well, you won’t believe it until you read it.

Too bad the good and stalwart citizens of Mammoth Falls, university professors, the Air Force and even the Pentagon are sometimes unappreciative of our heroic, creative little group. But then, they were never real scientific geniuses like us, either.

The Big Kerplop!

The whine of jet engines thunders from above as the giant Air Force bomber makes its approach to Westport Field. Suddenly, the citizens of Mammoth Falls are startled to see the bomb bay doors open and an object drop down, down, directly into Strawberry lake. Splash! And what is that object? Why a bomb, what else? Not just a common, ordinary, conventional bomb, but an atomic bomb! But that’s just the beginning of the latest actually the first madcap adventure book length this time of that outrageous, notorious threat to municipal sanity known as The Mad Scientists’ Club. As you know, with these boys anything can happen, and it does! For the first time, this book is now fully illustrated by Charles Geer. It features nine new illustrations covering sixteen pages, including Jaspar Okeby dumping a load of watermelons on Colonel March’s car!

The Big Chunk of Ice

It wasn’t the diamond as big as the Ritz but it was a pretty big chunk of ice and it got the precocious pranksters of The Mad Scientists’ Club entwined in an international intrigue that only the intrepid investigators of Interpol could unravel. Take the seven young mad scientists of Mammoth Falls, stick them in an antiquated blimp bound for the Austrian Alps, along with two ‘hep’ young college girls and a zany professor of mysterious Rumanian origins, and you have the makings of a high flying fun fest that could only come from the author of The Mad Scientists Club and The Big Kerplop! If you’re not already a fan of superbrain Henry Mulligan, d*inky Dinky Poore, fat Freddy Muldoon, and the other unpredictable troublemakers that populate this series of mad, mad adventure stories, you will be, once you read The Big Chunk of Ice.