author
Robert Maitland
Adventure, teamwork, and brisk old-school plotting run through the Boy Scout stories published under this name. The books became part of an early 20th-century series tradition in which fast-moving tales were often produced under a shared house pseudonym.
3 Audiobooks
The Boy Scout Fire Fighters; Or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed
by Robert Maitland
The Boy Scout Automobilists; Or, Jack Danby in the Woods
by Robert Maitland
The Boy Scout Pathfinders; Or, Jack Danby's Best Adventure
by Robert Maitland
About the author
"Robert Maitland" appears to have been a house name rather than a single, clearly documented author. The name is closely associated with the Boy Scout adventure books published by the Saalfield Publishing Company in the 1910s, a series built around outdoor action, rescues, travel, and wartime exploits for young readers.
Sources found during this search indicate that several writers may have worked behind the name, including J. W. Duffield and, in the form Major Robert Maitland, authors linked to Saalfield's fictional bylines. Because the surviving record is a little tangled, the safest way to understand Robert Maitland is as part of the era's publishing practice of using a strong, consistent pen name to present a long-running series.
That background helps explain the books' appeal: readers were not just following one title, but returning to a familiar brand of energetic juvenile adventure. Even today, the Robert Maitland name is remembered mainly through those Boy Scout stories and the larger world of early series fiction for young readers.