The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery at Missile Town by West, Jerry - 1961

Doubleday, 1961. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Hamilton, Helen S. Includes oft-misplaced jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. 1961 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 186 pp. The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery at Missile Town (#19 in the Happy Hollisters series). A slender missile, fire streaming from its tail, rose majestically into the blue sky over the waters of Cape Kennedy. Suddenly it exploded into a thousand pieces, showering the ocean and beaches with debris. This was the first sight to greet the Hollisters on their arrival in Florida for a visit with their cousins, Sharon and Randy Davis. Anxious to help Uncle Walt, a rocket expert at Patrick Air Force Base, they join in the search for the rocket’s nose cone, which is lost among the debris. The payload lodged in the nose cone is a very special “treasure,” for on it depends the success of future launchings. The holiday becomes an adventure when their new friend, Lady Rhesus, the space monkey, is stolen and they discover that her tracks lead to a fisherman’s beach shack. The secretive manner of the fisherman, plus a strange encounter with his friend, leads Pete to suspect that they are engaged in something more villainous than stealing a monkey.