More Adventures of the Great Brain

Has Tom Jenkins, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle? Not for long. Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there’s a prehistoric monster on the loose. But when someone robs the bank, even the police are stumped. Can the Great Brain solve the crime and put the crooks behind bars?

John D. Fitzgerald was born in Utah and lived there until the age of eighteen, when he began a series of interesting careers ranging from jazz drummer to foreign correspondent. He wrote several adult best-sellers, including Papa Married a Mormon, which was set in the same Utah environment as the Great Brain books. His most beloved works, however, are his children's books, which have been enormously popular since Dial's first publication of The Great Brain in 1967. By 1975, Fitzgerald had published six more Great Brain books; a seventh, The Great Brain Is Back, was discovered and published after his death. John D. Fitzgerald died in Florida, his home of many years, at the age of eighty-one.