A police captain offers the Hardy boys advice on basic methods of detection

Hardy Boys Detective Handbook

Children's Books

FRANKLIN W. DIXON

Mysteries & Detectives

Collins

Secret of the Caves

Flickering Torch Mystery

Sinister Signpost

Grosset&Dunlap

An archaeological expedition in the West turns into a desperate attempt to capture robbers and an escaped convict.

The Secret of Wildcat Swamp

HarperCollins, Publishers

Jungle Pyramid

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Mystery of the Melted Coins (Armada)

Frank and Joe Hardy are determined to bring to justice the vicious criminals who kidnapped their detective father while he was investigation sabotage of a road-building project in the Kentucky wilderness. After Mr. Hardy’s escape, the two young sleuths are spurred into action when he mumbles the word “Felix” and they discover a dossier of a notorious ex-convict was stolen from his files. The trail leads them to New York City but ends abruptly in a cemetery! With the new clue of a spiral symbol the boys head to Kentucky as part of a highway construction crew to track down the kidnappers and saboteurs.

Mystery of the Spiral Bridge

With only the slender clue of an arrow-shaped tie clasp, Frank and Joe Hardy pick up the trail of a cunning gang of thieves responsible for a wave of jewelry-store holdups. But their investigations are interrupted when a desperate plea for help comes from their widowed cousin who lives on a cattle ranch in New Mexico. Frank, Joe, and their pal Chet fly there immediately, and manage to put an end to the trouble at the ranch and solve the jewelry-store robberies.

Sign of the Crooked Arrow

<p>Tony Prito enlists the help of his detective friends Frank and Joe Hardy when a sinister stranger demands that Tony sell him the bizarre curio collection he has just inherited. While the boys are discussing this suspicious incident, the stranger, Valez, telephones and threatens Tony. That same afternoon the three boys collect the cases of curios at a freight station only for Joe's life to be at risk on their way back to Tony's house. The next day a seaman claims two medallions in the collection that coincidently go missing. Did Valez steal them? And what was their significance. Unraveling the clues in this exciting mystery takes the Hardys and their friends to a desolate region in Guatemala and straight into the hands of a gang of dangerous thugs.</p>

The Clue in the Embers (Hardy Boys, Book 35)

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