Dave Porter on Cave Island is the eighth volume in the Dave Porter series. Dave joins with some of his schoolmates to again take on two of villains of earlier books. The bad guys give the heroes an opportunity to do a piece of detective work that starts with an expedition that takes them to the desert island -- the Cave island -- of the title.
Edward Stratemeyer wrote more than 1,300 books himself, selling over 500 million copies. In addition to 10 Dave Porter books, Stratemeyer wrote seven series with mostly a military nature. He also created Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Rover Boys, The Dana Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy, and Tom Swift. He wrote under seven pen names and employed a number of ghost writers for whom he wrote plot outlines. The "Stratemeyer Syndicate" was a large organization and controlled a number of publishers.