The Radio Detectives

The year is the 1920s. Radio is the miracle of the age, crackling with voices and signals from across the globe, and for fourteen-year-old Tom Pauling, building a crystal set isn't just a hobby, it is a doorway to adventure. When Tom and his friend Frank pick up strange, encrypted messages flickering through the airwaves, they find themselves drawn into a world of adult danger they barely understand: smugglers, spies, secrets that could get them killed. The boys have one advantage no criminal expects: they are just kids with radio equipment, invisible in a world that does not look twice at teenage tinkerers. This is the first Radio Detectives book, a charming period piece that captures the breathless excitement of an era when radio was new, when the airwaves seemed full of mysteries waiting for someone brave enough to tune in.