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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.

32 Audiobooks

Motor Matt's Hard Luck; or, The Balloon-House Plot

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Red Flyer; or, On the High Gear

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Mandarin; or, Turning a Trick for Tsan Ti

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Daring Rescue; or, The Strange Case of Helen Brady

by Stanley R. Matthews

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

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's "Century" Run; or, The Governor's Courier

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Peril; or, Cast Away in the Bahamas

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Close Call; or, The Snare of Don Carlos

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt Makes Good; or, Another Victory For the Motor Boys

by Stanley R. Matthews

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

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Promise; or, The Wreck of the Hawk

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom Auto

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Make Up; or, Playing a New Rôle

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Reverse; or, Caught in a Losing Cause

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Quest; or Three Chums in Strange Waters

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the Grampus

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Triumph; or, Three Speeds Forward

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Mariner; or, Filling the Bill for Bunce

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road with a Show

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The Amazon

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Double Trouble; or, The Last of the Hoodoo

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Short Circuit; or, The Mahout's Vow

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Prize; or, The Pluck That Wins

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Launch; or, A Friend in Need

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Defiance; or, Around the Horn

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Queer Find; or, The Secret of the Iron Chest

by Stanley R. Matthews

Motor Matt's Enemies; or, A Struggle for the Right

by Stanley R. Matthews

About the author

Stanley R. Matthews was a pseudonym used by William Wallace Cook (1867–1933), an American writer linked to the Motor Matt stories. Sources found during research identify Cook as the uncredited author behind that series, written for the booming world of inexpensive adventure fiction.

Cook was known for extraordinary productivity and for writing across popular commercial fiction. His career stretched into screenwriting as well, and biographical sources place his life between Marshall, Michigan, where he was born on April 11, 1867, and the same town, where he died on July 20, 1933.

For listeners coming to Stanley R. Matthews today, the appeal is the same one that drew readers a century ago: brisk plotting, cliffhanger energy, and a vivid sense of motion and invention that captures the spirit of early adventure storytelling.