Motor Matt's Make-and-Break; or, Advancing the Spark of Friendship

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Motor Matt's Make-and-Break; or, Advancing the Spark of Friendship

by Stanley R. Matthews

EN·~3 hours·25 chapters

Chapters

25 total
1

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0:03
2

MOTOR STORIES

1:15
3

CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.

1:23
4

CHAPTER I.

10:29
5

CHAPTER II.

9:59
6

CHAPTER III.

10:02
7

CHAPTER IV.

10:21
8

CHAPTER V.

9:24
9

CHAPTER VI.

10:45
10

CHAPTER VII.

9:47

Description

A young tinkerer known as Motor Matt roams the dusty towns of the early West, turning scrap into daring inventions and pulling friends into his high‑octane schemes. When a nervous clerk named Prebbles receives an ominous, hand‑written letter addressed to a missing loan broker, the quiet office erupts into suspicion and urgency. Matt’s quick wit and his eclectic crew—a loyal cowboy, an eager Chinese assistant, and a handful of daring locals—draw the mystery out of the shadows.

The first act follows their scramble to uncover what the letter truly means, as hidden motives and a long‑kept “skeleton” begin to surface. Along the way, Motor Matt’s inventive spirit sparks tentative alliances, testing the limits of trust and daring in a world where engines roar louder than guns. Listeners will be swept into a blend of rugged frontier life and inventive escapades that celebrate the spark of friendship amid rising tension.

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Language

en

Duration

~3 hours (179K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/))

Release date

2016-05-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Stanley R. Matthews

Stanley R. Matthews

Best known as the house name behind the fast-paced Motor Matt adventures, this early pulp-era writer worked at astonishing speed and helped shape popular dime-novel fiction for young readers.

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