1.   Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.

2.   At the time of the Essex shipwreck, Melville was known mainly as the author of pulp adventure novels, drawing on his youthful experience as a whaler.

3.   Basketball is the backdrop for this compelling adventure novel.

4.   Bill Smith was a writer who turned out adventure novels and short stories for popular magazines, mostly about the Raj.

5.   After World War II, his career moved swiftly as he wrote nearly one adventure novel a year.

6.   He is a former Yonkers councilman and has written several adventure novels.

7.   His love for adventure novels and the outdoors clearly shaped his thematic concerns.

8.   The casual reader of swashbuckling adventure novels just wants to find out what happens next.

9.   The name comes from the classic adventure novel.

10.   There is a famous, perhaps whimsical story about the British writer John Buchan, who wrote dozens of successful adventure novels.