When the Hardy Boys join their father on a trip to Arizona's magnificent Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the trip becomes dangerous as they set out to find the black marketeers who are stealing rare cacti.
Trouble on the set! A reality-based game show called Warehouse Rumble has come to Bayport, and Frank and Joe Hardy are hoping to be among the first contestants. But when someone finds a skeleton on the set, production comes to a screeching halt. Once filming can begin again, the show is plagued...
When strange things happen on the set of a murdery-mystery play in London, the brothers believe someone is sabotaging the production.
A TRIP TO THE CIRCUS STIRS THE BOYS' SENSES -- AND SUSPICIONS. Frank, Joe, and their friends head to Philadelphia to catch a performance of Aerocirque, an amazing circus act with a twist -- the acrobats swing and flip from helicopters high in the air! But all is not well in the City of Brotherly ...
The aliens are invading! No, they're not from another galaxy. They're not even from Mars. They're from Hollywood! A science fiction convention has come to Bayport, and movie director Simon Devoreaux has lost his billion-dollar baby: the film of his latest blockbuster has dematerialized before his...
The Hardy Boys collaborating on a case with Sherlock Holmes? Well. Almost. A new musical play based on the legendary detective is coming to Bayport. It's called "The Giant Rat of Sumatra," and Joe has joined the cast. There's singing! There's dancing! And there's sabotage!
A Fantastic Vacation Becomes A Fight For Life Visiting San Esteban is supposed to be a vacation for Frank and Joe Hardy and their friends, but it doesn't take long for them to realize that the island is no paradise. Some of the local inhabitants aren't very friendly to tourists, and the island...
Frank and Joe are spending the summer on an archaeological dig on an Italian count's property, and they get to stay in the count's villa -- along with Francesca, his attractive teenage daughter. But no sooner does Joe unearth a fabulous cache of jewelry than it vanishes....
Great Hardy Boys book! I enjoyed the action and mystery. Loved that Frank and his girl Callie, Joe and his girl Iola were in the book. Great seeing Phil Cohen, and their friend from the Bayport PD, Con Riley helping out as well. I've read it twice now and loved it both times. I read it first a co...
Summer is starting off swimmingly for Frank, Joe, and Chet as they land jobs at the Konawa Lake Inn. But sure enough, trouble finds its way to the inn -- and the boys must solve an intricate case involving thievery and international jewel smuggling.
Joe and Frank investigate foul play at a boat race.
Stunt work is dangerous enough, but someone is looking to really push stuntman McCauley over the edge. So when Mr. Hardy agrees to look into Terrence's odd string of accidents, Frank and Joe decide to make it a family affair. Things get really interesting when Joe poses as Terrence to protect him...
Frank and Joe chase a couple of robbers into a junkyard - only to realise the chase was a trick, to lure them away while a real bank heist took place across town. But in the process, they have succeeded in uncovering the blueprint for an awesome criminal underground operation.
Frank and Joe have come north to Anchorage to support their friend, David Natik in his quest for victory. David is a top-rate dogsled racer but his hopes are dashed when a shocking piece of news forces him to withdraw from the famed Iditarod.
CREATURE CARDS ARE HOT, EXPENSIVE -- AND BANNED FROM BAYPORT HIGH! Gaming has already caused too much hassling among the students. But the Hardys' friend Chet is really upset when his confiscated deck is stolen from a teacher's locked desk. It's the latest in a string of thefts, and the big to...
The Hardy Boys head to Oklahoma, where crime is spinning out of control in the wide-open spaces of tornado alleyFrank and Joe encounter a bizarre phenomenon: the aftermath of a fierce twister that defies scientific explanation. To get at the truth, the Hardys will have to put themselves in the pa...
In this all-new adventure, the Hardys have been invited to attend the Bayport Motor Speedway to test-drive the prototype of a world-class sports car. But when the high-performance racer vanishes without a trace, Frank and Joe's investigation leads to the demolition derby, where they run head-on i...
Psychics Can See The Deepest Of SecretsThere's a new family in Bayport: psychics with visions of the past, present, and future. While lots of people are curious about the psychics, Frank and Joe Hardy are skeptical; is this psychic family for real? When Colin, one member of the family, makes an e...
The "Ebony Pearl", shipwrecked some 40 years ago, has risen from the bottom of the sea to haunt Nantucket. For the Hardys, it's full speed ahead as they search for the dark secret of the "Ebony Pearl" before it claims another victim.
When the Hardy's investigate a missing game show host, their investigation leads them to a tangled web of danger, deceit and dirty tricks.
The Clue of the Hissing Serpent (Hardy Boys, Books 53)
The Mysterious CaravanFranklin W. Dixoncopyright 1975mysteryThis book is about two detectives solving a big mystery. They go to a mysterious desert and find that there are random camels just standing with supplies on their back. They then take a closer look and find that there are people illega...
Chet Morton's very first day on the job-driving a Freddy Frost Ice Cream truck - sends him straight into the deep freeze. Two thugs in ski masks hijack the truck and kidnap Chet! When Frank and Joe find him tied up in an empty garage. The only clue to the identity of his kidnappers is the blue st...
THE HARDY BOYS® IT'D BE A CRIME TO LOSE THIS TOOTH While on holiday in London, Frank and Joe Hardy learn that a new invention -- a voice transmitter that can be implanted in a tooth -- has been stolen. The prime suspect is a notorious spy who has recently been spotted in London, but shortly afte...
FRANK AND JOE ARE AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN WHEN THEY GO UNDERCOVER TO EXPOSE SABOTAGE The shorewood Nature Center is a beautiful place -- to hike...to learn about local ecology...or to fall off a cliff. The Hardys learn that the hard way when they go undercover to investigate strange happeni...
THE HARDY BOYS® A VACATION IN PARIS TURNS INTO AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE CITY Frank and Joe Hardy can't resist an invitation to volunteer with the crew for a soccer match in Paris. They will be working at the same stadium where the World Cup was held a few years ago! From the moment the Hardys arr...
Two teenage sleuths help their detective father search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the Firebird Rocket.Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1/1/1978 Pages: 192 Reading Level: Age 8 and Up
by justin hoskins adv 206(1) What did you think the book was about?When I first saw the book’s cover I thought that the whole book was about them crashing a plane and being stranded in the arctic and they had to send a patrol team looking for them. I thought that because on the cover there is a p...
GOLD RUSH! The police in Portugal have asked Fenton Hardy to come help them solve a crime, and Frank and Joe are tagging along. Before they even get on the plane, they're given a mission of their own: Mrs. Rilke, a friend of the grandmother of one of Frank and Joe's classmates, is sending the b...
SOMETHING ROTTEN IS LURKING AT THIS RANCH! It's winter in Bayport, but things are heating up at the Morton family farm. It looks like someone is wreaking havoc with the property, and Chet and Iola Morton are worried that their grandparents are in danger of losing it! With their parents out of rea...
Gold bullion - a million dollars worth - has been stolen from the Wakefield Mint under strange circumstances. Mr. Hardy is asked to investigate but before long his life is threatened, and he asks Frank and Joe to help him.The boys fly to Zurich, Switzerland, hoping to get information at the Swiss...
Frank and Joe get revved up to race for their lives! The Hardy boys and their friend Jamal are thrilled to be participating in a motorcycle exhibition. It's going to be an exciting weekend, with many talented cyclists heating up the competition and a valuable prize for the winner -- a classic mo...
THE JOCKS ARE BRUISING THE HARDYS -- BUT A DETECTIVE END RUN IS ABOUT TO START! At Bayport High, Frank has left the football team to focus on a computer course, and Joe is trailing behind the team's newest star, Terry Golden. College recruiters are after Terry, and all the jocks are eager to join...
The Hardy brothers embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring.
Frank and Joe have come to the Everglades to experience the thrills of the Swampland Rodeo. But the thrills turn to chills when they land in a swamp-full of trouble chasing a gang of fleeing crooks and their loot
Hiking the Appalachian Trail with their friends, Chet, Phil, and Biff, the Hardys hit a snag when daredevil Biff gets hurt. The old mining town of Morgan's Quarry is the nearest place for help. But even the run-down, isolated town turns menacing when two tough locals drop a bag full of money in f...
Hardy Boys: The Wailing Siren Mystery. By Franklin W. Dixon,the book is about two brothers Joe Hardy and Frank Hardy have to find out where a load of rifles were loaded on to a wailing ship that got away because the Harry's mother boat ran out of gas. Throughout the entire book the author explane...
Brothers Frank and Joe try to find Steven Royal, a famous computer game designer who has disappeared with the prototype of his newest game.
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps.The two boys live in the fictional city of Bayport (on Barmet Bay) with their...
SOMETIMES THE BEST ACTING IS DONE BY AMATEURS The Hardys' friend Chet answers an ad in the paper for a role in a student film. There's just one catch: all participants must have a boat, so Chet persuades Frank and Joe to get their motorboat, the SLEUTH, out of mothballs. He even convinces the bro...
When an ancient stone idol disappears, the Hardy Boys are off on another fast-paced adventure. It's a mystery that takes the boys from a primitive village in the Andes Mountains to Antarctica and finally to Easter Island. By using their fine investigative skills, the Hardy Boys find that the myst...
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps. Frank Hardy is the elder of the two and has dark hair. Joe Hardy is the youn...
The Twisted Claw by Frank Dixon was a heavy fighting and traveling adventure story. The Hardy brothers get suspicious about a heist for smuggling museum items. The bros decide to "join" the heist to inspect what's happening. Soon they get trapped in a boat for days because everyone found out they...
For a few years now, I've been interviewing my twins after they finish reading their books, posting those interviews on their own goodreads profile. My boy, Miloš, finished reading The Tower Treasure a couple of weeks ago, and I reread it just this week (I always reread the books they've read.) Y...
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps.The two boys live in the fictional city of Bayport (on Barmet Bay) with their...
I must say I had a very different childhood from everyone else in the neighbourhood or even in the crappy school i went to. Cos, while all the other girls played with dolls and dreamed of an early marriage, I used to spend endless hours reading Hardy Boys mysteries. My dad was the one (as usual) ...
An enjoyable quick read.I did not like the character Vern but Chet, as usual, sparkled like a shining star. I am always amazed how strong the Hardy Boys are as they seem to overpower almost any body-builder they see.A good mystery.Although I must note it is strange reading/rating a children's boo...
This book, " The Sinister Signpost" by Franklin Dixon, is one of the legendary Hardy mysteries. The Hardy's encounter a race car crash, in the heart of Bayport City, because of a reflecting signpost. The Hardy's soon figure out that criminals want to steal a secret engine of one of the racers. Th...
Pulled this off the shelf at Grandma's. Fine plot involving taxidermy and short-wave radios, whatever. What stands out in this particular book (perhaps all Hardy Boys books?) is how often they call Chet (the boys' best chum) "fat." Or "stout." As in, "By the time the two brothers had reached thei...
The Hardy Boys have more traumatic things befall them in one chapter of their books than most real detectives have happen to them in their entire careers. In this book they are knocked out by gas, nearly die of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, have two motorcycle crashes, are almost crushed by a fallin...
Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 6/1/1938 Pages: 192 Reading Level: Age 8 and Up
I love a good mystery!..Mystery books that really take you along on the journey, making you feel like you're one of the detectives working on the case, are extremely fun! Picking up on the clues, thinking it all through and challenging yourself to crack the case before the characters do..Honestly...
I really liked this book a lot because it was related in mystery and adventure. Most adventure and mystery books are about men trying to find bad people. Well this series is a unique series because it is about two kids that are about 18 years old. They help their father who is a detective in find...
My Book ReviewBook title and author: Secret of the Lost Tunnel by Franklin W DixonTitle of review: Review of Secret of the Lost TunnelNumber of stars (1 to 5): 5IntroductionIn the secret of the lost tunnel the hardy’s are at there at the hardy home and they get some strange phone calls and then a...
The Secret of Pirates Hill is your typical rollicking Hardy Boys adventure novel, with one notable and fantastic addition - a scene where Aunt Gertrude steps in and saves her nephews by repeatedly whacking the villain with an antique cutlass! Prim and disapproving Aunt Gertrude is usually relega...
First valuable antique weather vanes are stolen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Frank and Joe are hired to catch the thieves. Meanwhile, their father is asked to find a missing Navy employee and a top-secret government document. What is the connection between the missing weather vanes and the P...
When I was pre-teen I read all the Hardy Boys mysteries I could get hold of. Eventually I moved onward and upward - Nancy Drew. It's been many years now since dark haired suave Frank and light haired volatile Joe led me through the pages of a harrowing adventure. And it's been many years since th...
In this book of the Hardy Boys series it is a continuation of the previous book (#44 The Haunted Fort). It starts with a brief recap telling that Fenton Hardy was working on a case and was injured. So now his sons must pick up where he left off in the investigation of a mob jeopardizing Mr. Prito...
Spencer Given’s fancy new hydrofoil, the Flying Express, is causing quite a stir in Bayport – and not the kind he’d hoped to create. Although initially people are eager to travel the seas in his ship, word gets about that the hydrofoil is dangerous – and should be run out of Bayport Harbor.But wh...
What I've Said Before This is the 39th book in the original Hardy Boys Mystery Series which ran from 1927 to 1979 and was, along with the Nancy Drew, Tom Swift and Bobbsey Twins series, part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Like "Carolyn Keene" of the Nancy Drew series, "Franklin W. Dixon" is a pen ...
I'm a big fan of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. Although I would normally just breeze through the books, this was just a bit of a drag for me. I was already more than halfway through the book, but they still haven't found a single piece of clue. Some of the dialogues were stated as narrati...
The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys, Book 8)
Frank and Joe are called upon to find a wealthy industrialist's son who has mysteriously disappeared. The only clue in the case leads the two young detectives to South America, where the intrigues of evil adversaries almost cost them their lives. Only through their courage and perseverance do the...
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps. Frank Hardy is the elder of the two and has dark hair. Joe Hardy is the youn...
"Joe realized that he and Frank would never be able to accomplish the task. And he knew there was no hope of assistance from outside, for no one knew where they were."Indeed. You have to read the original version of this book (published in 1928) and not one of the revised versions (1963) or updat...
I used to be a fan of the Hardy Boys, though I've only read a couple of books from the series. This might be my third or fourth one. Though the plot points seem logical, I can't help but think outside a PG-13 setting were criminals are more ruthless and cold-blooded than normally depicted in the ...
Danger is the name of the game when the Hardys agree to help their pen pal from Greece, Evan Pandropolos, search for a priceless, ancient Greek helmet. Years ago, Evan's uncle had loaned it to Hollywood movie company for use in a silent motion picture, but the treasured helmet had been lost. Pick...
I thought this book was really good but, not as exciting as I hoped. There were many interesting parts, but the book still felt a little dry. I'm not saying I hate the book I'm just saying I've read better. I guess the book was written really well on what would happen in real life, but I guess th...
It's probably been close to 50 years since I read this, so I can't recall any details or give a pertinent review. However, I CAN say this much: if not for the Hardy Boys series by the esteemed Franklin W. Dixon, I might not be an avid reader today. The life-threatening dilemmas in which Frank and...
A cryptic message from their famous detective father and a note concealed in a ventriloquist's dummy lead Frank and Joe Hardy on a dangerous search to the tropical islands in the Caribbean. There the teenage detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind. Danger stal...
I read the 1933 edition, which is very different from the revised 1965 edition. In fact, the cover of the book shown is wrong. There are not tropical settings and no army guys in the book I read.But there sure are cringingly terrible racist stereotypes about Chinese people! If you want to read a ...
This is the 16th volume of Applewood Books reproductions of the Original Hardy Boys-Just as You Remember Them. Originally published in 1937, A Figure in Hiding was was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane. Its dustjacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Paul Laune. In A Figure in Hiding, Fran...
author: Franklin W Dixondate published: 1940genre: mystery This story all started with the Hardy boys driving in a car venturing into the dark. In that ride they ended up finding one of the people on one of their dads files (their dad is a detective and they are detectives also. They ended u...
In the across scream diaster??? God of few telling
While searching for the guard end of a broken saber that will solve one mystery, the Hardy brothers become involved with a gang of bank robbers.
This is a great book!You will sit on the edge of your seat the whole time! You will not be able to put this book down until your done! This story is about Frank and Joe trying to solve the Mystery of the Sqorpio Gang! There are also threats coming to the owner of Wild WOrld, the new park in town....
Yeah, so I found this in a pile of retreads passed around at work, and I had to look inside. No chance I'll finish it, but it's nice to know the Hardy Boys were still keepin' it real in 1980, holdin' it down for the 1950s, fo'reals. That language is straight thug: "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle...
In The Bombay Boomerang by Franklin W. Dixon the Hardy boys get a strange phone call that is involved in a case that will affect national security. Joe hardy accidentally dials the wrong number and he calls the Pentagon and the man on the other end of the phone says Bombay boomerang and hangs up....
The Missing ChumstI read the book The Missing Chums, it was written in 1997, and has 175 pages. The author is Franklin W. Dixon, and the genre is mystery.tOne night the Hardy brothers were going to a party. After the party was over they turned down on ally on the back of the bank to get on there...
Shortly after his arrival in the United States, a Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears. Then a valuable samurai sword, said to have belonged to the missing tycoon's family for generations, is stolen from an auction gallery in New York. Danger confronts them constantly as the Hardy Boy...
Wait, a what?!The Story.Fenton Hardy didn’t have enough time to brief his sons, Joe and Frank, on the case before sending them over to London on a special investigation, but he put them in contact with a man who could – Professor Rowbotham. Imagine the boys’ surprise when they arrive in East Angl...
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps. Frank Hardy is the elder of the two and has dark hair. Joe Hardy is the youn...
Another adventure of the crime-busting brothers, Frank and Joe.
The Hardys never dreamed they'd be swinging for their lives on the circus's flying trapeze, but that's exactly what happens when their pal Chet Morton discovers a college for clowns. But Frank and Joe have no time for clowning around, for they've intercepted a coded message that may turn the grea...
All Aboard for a Major Mystery Frank and Joe have the ultimate case on their hands: to judge the sleuthing skills of five teen dtectives in a contest sponsored by Teenway magazine. Even more cool -- the contest takes place on a caribbean cruise ship! But it's not long before suspicious pranks t...
One exciting event follows another when Frank and Joe Hardy are hired to apprehend the pickpockets who have been plaguing Solo's Super Carnival. When their friends Tony Prito and Biff Hooper exhibit a stuffed whale dug up at a construction project, they all but put the carnival out of business. I...
Entry 1-Frank, Joe, Chet,and Mr. Hardy are the main characters and protagonists. The antagonists are the people trying to take the RRampans property and stealing the Indian Articals. Entry 2-The setting is wherever the clues the boys fing take them. The theme is don't underestimate anyone. The po...
CAN THE HARDYS PASS THIS EXTREME TEST OF ENDURANCE AND SKILL?Making it to the finish line of the high-endurance Fire Creek Mountain Race is going to be a real challenge for the Hardys. The five demanding events include downhill mountain biking, kayaking, cross-country hiking and climbing, biking ...
Wow, you know who had terrible parents? The Hardy Boys! Who sends their children and their children's friends into the deadly Canadian wilderness after receiving death threats about meddling into the affairs of thieves? Oh, you guessed it, the Hardy parents! I guess you could say the parents of t...
This is one of my surviving Hardy Boys books (most were lost in a basement flood years ago). I found it recently and enjoyed re-reading it. Again. There is very little redeeming about the book - its not a great literary work, it has a horribly outdated (and offensive) view of women and minorities...
In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs.
The Hardy boys are well known as a detective duo in their hometown of Bayport, so they aren’t surprised when they are called upon to help solve local mysteries. However, they never expected to be pulled into a case in which, not only are they the investigators, but they’re also the chief suspects...
This was pretty scary the end! Sailor Hawkins almost dynamited the roof of a cavern above Frank, Joe, Dick Ames, and Bob Carpenter. Bayport was losing water from a local reservoir. Frank and Joe found out that crooks were using a tunnel that went underground from the lake to the sea to deposit...
Because one of my grandmothers had given it to me for Xmas, "The Secret Agent on Flight 101" by Franklin W. Dixon (in this case, the real author is Tom Mulvy), was the first Hardy Boys book I ever read. From that point on throughout my junior high school years, I read the vast majority of the ser...
The jocks are bruising the Hardys -- but a detective end run is about to start! At Bayport High, Frank has left the football team to focus on a computer course, and Joe is trailing behind the team's newest star, Terry Golden. College recruiters are after Terry, and all the jocks are eager to join...
A Haunted Maze Has Twice The Dead Ends. Frank and Joe are thrilled to be taking part in the grand opening celebration of a new maze in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. By solving puzzles -- their specialty -- they could win a valuable prize! But once they arrive, the teens soon have a new puzzle to sol...
Frank and Joe have landed in heaven-miles of sun, sand, and deep blue sea on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. But when they find a young woman, barely alive, washed up on the beach, the boys realize that there's trouble in paradise. Because beneath the surface of these calm waters lurk hidden t...
The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps. Frank Hardy is the elder of the two and has dark hair. Joe Hardy is the youn...
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, are invited by their dad, the famous detective Fenton Hardy, to work on one of his cases. This one involves smugglers bringing stolen drugs into the town of Bayport by boat. In an effort to search for clues, the boys take their telescopes and ride their motorcycle...
The HARDY BOYS(R) SKIN & BONES SELLS EVERYTHING FROM ANACONDA SKINS TO OSTRICH SKELETONS -- BUT SOMEONE' S TRYING TO TRASH THE BUSINESS! Cody Chang's San Francisco store could be considered creepy -- Skin & Bones sells animal skulls, fish skeletons, reptile skins, and more. Business is boomin...