Dick Hamilton's Touring Car; Or, a Young Millionaire's Race for a Fortune
1913
Dick Hamilton's Touring Car; Or, a Young Millionaire's Race for a Fortune
1913
It's 1913, and sixteen-year-old Dick Hamilton has just received the ultimate prize for academic excellence: a brand new touring car, big enough to live in, waiting to carry him and his friends across America. Named the Last Word, this magnificent automobile promises an unforgettable summer adventure as the boys set out for San Francisco. But fate intervenes on the salt desert when they discover a distressed stranger on the railroad tracks, Frank Wardell, a man whose fortune is being systematically stolen by Dick's own unscrupulous Uncle Ezra. What begins as a carefree cross-country road trip becomes a high-stakes race to save Wardell's inheritance, pitting youthful courage against adult greed. The novel captures the raw excitement of early automobile travel, the open roads, the mechanical marvels, the freedom of going anywhere, as it delivers a satisfying adventure about friendship, loyalty, and doing what's right even when it costs you. For readers who love period adventure stories and tales of young people outsmarting villains, this is a charming time capsule of an era when cars were new and anything seemed possible.
