adventure stories

In 1873, seventeen-year-old Vesper Holly and her guardians travel to an obscure European grand duchy, where their archenemy Dr. Helvitius is pursuing a lost art treasure and engineering the country's annexation by a neighboring kingdom.

Presents graphic novel adaptations of a selection of stories and short pieces by Robert Louis Stevenson, including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.".

Abuse suffered at the hands of his father and in foster homes and orphanages has left Clay Blaisdell with reduced mental skills, making him the perfect partner to seasoned criminal George Rackley who has a plan to kidnap the infant heir to a huge fortune, and who continues to aid and abet Clay even after he is murdered. Includes a short story.

Two anthropologists who are currently academic rivals join forces to discover the reason their mentor has disappeared while on an expedition, leading them to discover a tribe of prehistoric beings.

At bedtime, a young boy enters the outer space-patterned wallpaper in his room and has adventures with a band of spacemice.

When Thea Stilton travels to Ireland to search for a missing agent, she finds that the whole fantasy Land of Erin is being threatened by earthquakes, and soon Will Mystery and the Thea sisters follow to help her find the secret of the fairies.

A simple guide to writing adventure stories.

An abridged version of an adventure in seventeenth-century France, when young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

James Bond, vacationing in Mexico at the home of ex-flying ace Jack Stone, is called to duty when thieves rob Stone's safe and kidnap his children in the midst of a hurricane, forcing James into a perilous chase through the jungle in pursuit of the criminals.

Young Ven Polypheme and his friends find adventure--and a very angry dragon--when King Vandemere sends them afar to learn the cause of a dispute between two warring kingdoms.