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A BIFF BREWSTER MYSTERY ADVENTURE

MYSTERY OF THE AMBUSH IN INDIA

[Illustration: Compass]

By ANDY ADAMS

                      GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
                                NEW YORK

(c) BY GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC. 1962

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE I A Mysterious Message 1 II The Boy and the Basket 9 III The Rajah's Ruby 16 IV Biff Vanishes 25 V Danger at Dawn 33 VI The Cry of Death 42 VII The Temple of Kali 49 VIII Chandra Finds a Way 57 IX The Man in the Jeep 65 X The Tiger Hunt 74 XI A Thief in the Night 83 XII A Double Surprise 91 XIII Biff's Mission 99 XIV The Valley of Doom 106 XV The Caravan Halts 114 XVI The Bamboo Bridge 123 XVII The Monster of the Mountains 133 XVIII The Frozen Waterfall 142 XIX The Lost City 151 XX The Master Spy 158 XXI Secret of the Snows 164

MYSTERY OF THE AMBUSH IN INDIA

                                   I
                          A Mysterious Message

It was sunset along the Calcutta waterfront. The reflection of the vividtropical sky turned the murky water of the Hooghly River into a ripplingrainbow. The river was alive with a variety of craft, including nativesailboats, side-wheel steamers that plied up and down the Hooghlybetween Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal, eighty miles south, as well assturdy tugs, launches, and lighters that served the ocean-going shipsmoored in midstream along the strand.

Biff Brewster was standing at the bow of a big freighter, the 10,000-tonNorthern Star, which only that afternoon had cast anchor in the Portof Calcutta. Biff was a blond-haired youth of sixteen, with broad,square shoulders and blue-gray eyes that were as keen and expressive ashis strong, well-formed f

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