A Ticket to Adventure is a mystery story for boys written by Roy J. Snell, a novelist who wrote many fiction stories for boys such as Mystery Wings, Hour of Enchantment, and A Ticket to Adventure. Mary Hughes had walked the entire length of the long dock at Anchorage, Alaska. Now, having rounded a great pile of merchandise, tents, tractors, groceries, hammers, axes, and boxes of chocolate bars she came quite suddenly upon the oddest little man she had ever seen. Even for a girl in her late teens, Mary was short and slender. This man was no larger than her.