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Alec Bull has completed his 'super-charged, straight-eight, two-litre racing car' and intends winning the upcoming championship. Alec is a cub reporter and is called to work when the race favourite is murdered prior to the championship race.

'Famous sleuth, Derick Corder, had to find the murderer in a hurry; in fact before he was arrested on a murder charge himself!' (from Title Page)

Sergeant Dan Nichols is always accompanied by his dog, Nip. When they find the old prospector, Sundowner Joe, dead in his hut, Nip locates the murderer and saves his master.

Caught in a maori skirmish, Joe and Allan were in a dangerous position until a stone carving of a black shark appeared to protect them.

A Cobb and Co. coach has been held up. Rock Brandon figures that the crime could have been committed by Warrigal Barton's gang, who had recently crossed into Queensland from New South Wales, or the work of 'Dinkum' Smith. It's up to Rock and the 'Black Police' to find the bushrangers.

Gibber, the circus orang-outang is faithful to his handler, Jim Jackson. When Jim, is double-crossed by Peblo, the circus's stongman, Jim and Gibber work together to prove Jim's innocence.

The boys in Kynemore like to play cricket in Wishart's paddock, a wilderness where once gold was found. A rambling deserted mansion on the property, Wishart's Folly, is said to hold the ghost of Mark Wishart who died five years earlier. There are more things going on here than just a game of cricket. The young cricketers locate the mysterious Mark Wishart and find a hidden fortune in gold.

John and Ken attempt to catch a plesiosaurus sea monster which is terrorising local fishermen.

Bill and Ron come across a dispute between a gold fossicker and a would be thief. A big croc in the nearby river waits to settle the argument.

When Harry Grange escapes from Shark Bay Convict Settlement, he is saved from recapture by a stranger who introduces himself as Bob Stirling. Bob is seeking a partner to help him expose the man who has swindled he and his brother out of their property. In a turn of chance, it happens that Harry's uncle is responsible for both Harry's convict sentence and Bob's demise.

The Dormitory 5 boys are appalled that a newcomer to their school, John Smith, is placed in their dormitory. They soon discover that someone is trying to kill John and the boys are embroiled in a mystery.