Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery

Biff Brewster Mystery Adventures #1

by Andy Adams

"Guard this letter as you would your life!"
With these words ringing in his ears, Biff Brewster boards the Brazil-bound plane to join his father on a safari to the headwaters of the Amazon River - a safari that, to Biff’s amazement, becomes a deadly contest for fabulous riches.

Genres: Mystery, Juvenile

182 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Andy Adams is the Grosset & Dunlap pseudonym for three writers who authored the Biff Brewster series of adventure and mystery novels for adolescent boys in the early and mid-1960s. The real-world authors were Walter B. Gibson, Edward Pastore, and Peter Harkins.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Biff Brewster starred in a series of thirteen boys' adventure novels published between 1960-1965 by Grosset & Dunlap. The books were written by three authors under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house name pseudonym Andy Adams, one of whom was none other than Walter B. Gibson, the famous author of The Shadow series. (Yeah, -that- guy, the one who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men!) In this first book Biff is introduced, and goes off to the wilds of the Amazon River with his father, a mining engineer, for adventure and intrigue. Though the particulars of social aspects and technological developments of the stories are now pretty dated, they were intelligent and interesting books, with a good depiction of exotic locations and a sympathetic view of foreign cultures.

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of old-school fun. A mystery with plenty of adventure and suspense. What's not to like?

[Janelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun adventure for kids that I’m sure I would have enjoyed when I was young. Though now as an adult I couldn’t help thinking of indigenous rights and mining abuses. Growing up is boring.

[Rex Libris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Biff and his dad go up the Amazon to look for a lost gold mine. Bad people want to stop them. The good guys win.

[Finn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book first published in 1960 but the kind of classic adventure story I loved reading as a kid, when I was still dreaming of becoming an explorer and going on adventures around the globe.
This would definitely have been a book I'd picked up from the library in my youth, if it had been there in the first place.

It's an adventure -- with a twist at the end I didn't see coming. I was as surprised as Biff was. *wink* (not gonna spoil it)

It's very well written with interesting characters.
Looking forward to more in this series.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

How about an Amazon adventure for a teen boy and his dad, just after WW2, in search of mythical gold? This was a fun romp of a story with shades of Indiana Jones and a mystery as well. Listened on LibriVox.

[Steve Rutherford]

Biff Brewster #1 - PC

[Ronald · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice intro to the series