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·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

MOTOR STORIES

1:15

CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.

1:23

CHAPTER I.

10:29

CHAPTER II.

9:59

CHAPTER III.

10:02

CHAPTER IV.

10:21

CHAPTER V.

9:24

CHAPTER VI.

10:45

CHAPTER VII.

9:47

CHAPTER VIII.

9:42

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

A fast-moving name from the dime-novel era, this author is best known for the action-packed Motor Matt adventures full of machines, danger, and cliffhangers. The name appears to have been a pen name tied to popular fiction written for young readers in the early 1900s.

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