[Ken Holt 18] • The Mystery of the Sultan's Scimitar

News reporter Ken Holt and his photographer friend, Sandy Allen, are vacationing in southern Europe. True-born newsment that they are, things just happen when they're around

Minutes after they view the invaluable Knossos cylinder––the Golden Key to the language of the ancient Cretans––this prize artifact is stolen from the Athens Museum. What can they do? Nothing, Ken and Sandy decide. They're just tourists in Greece––strangers in a strange country where they don't know the language.

But before twenty-four hours have passed, the boys find themselves involved in this bizarre mystery. A suspicious-acting peddler sells them a Turkish scimitar. A newspaper clipping about the daring theft of the artifact mysteriously vanishes. A bossy American librarian has an odd acquaintance. And a friend from Athens flees when he sights them in the ancient city of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

Unraveling the clues to a weirdly complex international gang takes as much brainwork as bravery. But the Golden Key is worth the effort. And, of course, there's a front-page story in it for the young newsmen.