Motor Matt's Prize: The Pluck that Wins

by Stanley R. Matthews

Overview

Motor Matt's Prize, the 23rd in a series of 32, is another splendid adventure of this mechanical genius, and while his adventures are unusual, they are drawn so true to life that the reader can clearly see how it is possible for the ordinary person to experience them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800646455
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	10/10/2021
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Stanley R. Matthews was a pseudonym used by William Wallace Cook (1867-1933). Cook was the uncredited author of the Motor Matt series. He was an incredibly prolific writer, turning out so much pulp fiction that he was called "the man who deforested Canada."

At one point, Cook was churning out material so fast that he used three stenographers at once to take dictation and type it up, but in the end he went back to working solo because they couldn't maintain the surprisingly exacting standards of the fiction markets of the day. He was a technology buff who always had the latest model of typewriter. But what really set him apart was his elaborate filing system. He took in many newspapers and magazines, and anything interesting was carefully cut out, filed, and indexed for later reference. The point of this was to front-load his research so that he could whip out a story at a moment's notice, using the material at hand.