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Title: The Flying Stingaree

Author: Harold Leland Goodwin

Release Date: November 3, 2009 [EBook #30401]

Language: English

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THE FLYING STINGAREE

BY JOHN BLAINE

A RICK BRANT SCIENCE-ADVENTURE STORY

GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK, N. Y.

BY GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC., 1963

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Printed in the United States of America_

[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence
that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

To
my sons,
Chris and Derek,
who have watched the stingarees
from the sun deck of the
cruising houseboat
Spindrift

THE FLYING STINGAREE

What's shaped like a sting ray and flies over Chesapeake Bay? This is
the eerie riddle which confronts Rick Brant and his friend Don Scott
when, seeking shelter from a storm, they anchor the houseboat
_Spindrift_ in a lonely cove along the Maryland shore and spot the
flying stingaree.

The "thing," they learn, is not the only one of its kind--one is
actually suspected of having kidnaped a man!

The residents of the Eastern Shore of Maryland believe the strange
objects are flying saucers, but, weary of ridicule, have ceased
reporting the sightings.

Rick and Scotty, their scientific curiosity aroused, begin a
comprehensive investigation, encouraged by their friend Steve Ames, a
young government intelligence agent, whose summer cottage is near the
cove.

As the clues mount up, the trail leads to Calvert's Favor, a historic
plantation house--and to the very bottom of Chesapeake Bay. How Rick and
Scotty, at the risk of their lives, ground the eerie menace forever
makes a tale of high-voltage suspense.

[Illustration: _Little Choptank River_]

Contents

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