The Rover Boys in Business

The Rover Boys was a popular juvenile series authored by Arthur M. Winfield a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer. 30 titles were published between 1899 and 1926 and the books remained in print for years afterward. While there are better-known and longer-running juvenile series such as The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew and Tom Swift the Rovers were very successful and influential. They established the template for all later Stratemeyer Syndicate series to come.Brothers Tom Sam and Dick Rover were students at a military boarding school: adventurous prank-playing flirtatious and often unchaperoned adolescents. They were frequently causing mischief for authorities as well as criminals. This is volume 19 in the series.