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MOTOR STORIES
CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
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.
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.

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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