Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot

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Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot

by Stanley R. Matthews

EN·~3 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

MOTOR STORIES

0:38

CHAPTER I.

10:15

CHAPTER II.

9:22

CHAPTER III.

9:14

CHAPTER IV.

10:45

CHAPTER V.

8:43

CHAPTER VI.

9:50

CHAPTER VII.

9:43

CHAPTER VIII.

11:18

CHAPTER IX.

8:13

Description

A bustling early‑1900s street pulse beats through the adobe courtyard, where Motor Matt’s routine laundry run turns into a chaotic showdown. A brawny Dutch newcomer, flamboyantly dressed in noisy plaids, rattles the neighborhood with a wild mix of broken English and sudden aggression, prompting a frantic scramble among the Chinese laundrymen and their makeshift weapons. The clash is as much comic as it is tense, with wash‑boards flying, irons clanging, and a tumble of suds that leaves everyone drenched and dizzy.

In the thick of the uproar, Matt observes a cryptic exchange that hints at a hidden motive behind the Dutch boy’s erratic behavior. He senses a larger scheme brewing beneath the surface—one that could involve the local community, secret plans, and perhaps a looming danger. Listeners are invited to join Matt as he pieces together clues, navigates cultural clashes, and prepares to foil a plot that threatens more than just a few bruised egos.

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Language

en

Duration

~3 hours (173K 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

2014-10-23

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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