#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $400: In "The Mystery of the Ivory Charm", this teen sleuth & her friends uncover a stolen cache of jewels & thwart a kidnapping Nancy Drew |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $800: A misfit computer hacker teams up with a reporter in Sweden in this 2005 novel, the first in a series The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1200: Craig Alanson created this series of novels, exforce for short, as a "military space opera" Expeditionary Force |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $2000: In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral Horatio Hornblower |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | PENNY ANTE $1000: Aka "bloods", they were inexpensive Victorian novels with violent crime or adventure plots penny dreadful |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1600: The Folio Society sells mail-order illustrated editions of famous books, like this 1880s pirate adventure Treasure Island |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $400: In 1887's "She" by H. Rider Haggard, a lost civilization is discovered in the jungles of this continent Africa |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $800: Robert E. Howard's only novel-length tale about this Cimmerian is sometimes titled him "the Conqueror" Conan the Conqueror |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $1200: A professor of geology plans a subterranean expedition in this Verne novel Journey to the Center of the Earth |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: This C.S. Forester naval hero debuted in "Beat to Quarters" (a call to battle stations--not a chicken recipe instruction) (Horatio) Hornblower |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $3,000 (Daily Double): Rafael Sabatini wrote a novel about this sanguine "Captain", a doctor turned pirate Captain Blood |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NOVELS $600: In addition to the tales of his fabled detective, this man penned "The White Company", an adventure of the Middle Ages Arthur Conan Doyle |
#6604, aired 2013-05-09 | CLASSIC NOVELS $200: It's the adventure tale in which you'll find Jim Hawkins & Long John Silver Treasure Island |
#1905, aired 1992-12-11 | JACKs $500: One of his last adventure novels, "Jerry of the Islands", told of an Irish terrier pup in the South Seas Jack London |
#1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: "A Study in Scarlet" was this famous sleuth's 1st published adventure Sherlock Holmes |
#992, aired 1988-12-20 | NOVELS $200: Graham Greene's adventure novel "The Comedians" is set in this country during the regime of "Papa Doc" Haiti |