The Mad Scientists' Club

The Mad Scientists' Club is a series of four books written for children by Bertrand R. Brinley (1917 – 1994) and illustrated by Charles Geer. The books focus on the adventures of the seven boys who make up the club. The original stories that form the majority of the first book were first published in Boys' Life. All the books are set in the 1960s, contemporary at the time of the first story's publication. The setting is the fictional town of Mammoth Falls, which is on the edge of the also fictional Strawberry Lake. Interactions with the setting and many of the townspeople are an important part of the narrative. All of the stories include scientific and technological solutions to problems, which vary from pranks carried out by the boys themselves, to the rescue of a crashed Air Force pilot.