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#11
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Casefiles 83 Toxic Revenge
Last post by CalvinKnox - November 03, 2024, 11:33:00 PM
As far as environmental themed casefiles go, Toxic Revenge is better than its immediate predecessor, Poisoned Paradise, but I find that it really doesn't fit the series.  If I had been reading the casefiles from the start (and not been the massive HB fan I am), I would be feeling pretty jaded with the lack of any serious attempt at a logical chronology.  It's felt like years since the Hardys battled terrorists in Dead on Target and Hostages of Hate (and several seasons have clearly passed), but now they're stuck mucking around in high school, which shatters my whole image of the Casefile Hardys.  In my opinion, it would have been a keen idea to have a little more differentiation between series. They could have been perpetual juveniles in the digests, but pros in the casefiles, working directly for the network like in Spies and Lies, or working with Fenton like in Road Pirates and the Operation Phoenix Trilogy. (Up the reading level a few years too, stat encroaching on the demographic that is about to be reading things like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler
#12
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Casefiles 84 False Alarm
Last post by CalvinKnox - November 03, 2024, 10:58:44 PM
False Alarm was similar to No. 15 Blood Relations in the way that both books have the Hardys facing off against a rival set of brothers that have suddenly appeared in Bayport.  Which is probably part of the reason I have absolutely no recollection of 84.

Also, page 36 mentions "Bill, Chet, Biff, and Tony".  I'm assuming Bill must actually be Phil.
#13
Network Briefings - Hardy Boys News / Hardy Boys Casefiles Encyclope...
Last post by SkyWarp - October 27, 2024, 02:50:05 PM
The characters, places, and events of Hardy Boys Casefile #43, Strategic Moves, have been entered into the Hardy Boys Encyclopedia.

#14
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #52 Uncivil War (31st Anni...
Last post by MysteryFan89 - October 20, 2024, 05:31:38 PM
Quote from: CalvinKnox on October 19, 2024, 03:37:28 PMAlso, a reenactment scene with Frank and Joe wearing uniforms would have made fora pretty nifty cover

Yes, it would've.
#15
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #44 Castle Fear (30th Anni...
Last post by CalvinKnox - October 19, 2024, 03:48:08 PM
I think the ghostwriter's understanding of England was based fully on Sherlock Holmes, from foggy London streets to the  desolate moors and a crumbling castle, all the characters and settings are straight from Sherlock Holmes. With very few changes, the whole story could take place in 1880 instead
#16
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #52 Uncivil War (31st Anni...
Last post by CalvinKnox - October 19, 2024, 03:37:28 PM
Also, a reenactment scene with Frank and Joe wearing uniforms would have made fora pretty nifty cover
#17
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #43 Strategic Moves (31st ...
Last post by MysteryFan89 - October 16, 2024, 11:11:54 PM
I've reading this book, (hench my posts about it) and I think this story would work very today with everything going on.
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Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #43 Strategic Moves (31st ...
Last post by tomswift2002 - October 16, 2024, 03:39:27 PM
Quote from: MysteryFan89 on October 16, 2024, 11:44:41 AMCabin Island, what about it?
Page 101 has the Hardy's finding a notebook with a date of "October, 1917" and then Frank immediately saying that was "eleven years ago" and dating the theft to sometime in 1913, which was 15 years before the setting of the book in December 1928 (the book finishes on the afternoon of December 31, 1928).  Because of this, "The Shore Road Mystery" (1928) is also dated to sometime prior to December 1928.
#19
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #43 Strategic Moves (31st ...
Last post by MysteryFan89 - October 16, 2024, 11:44:41 AM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on October 15, 2024, 05:42:19 PMYes.  So the book was outdated very quickly.  That's why "Strategic Moves" and "Castle Fear" are products of that 2 year period and can only take place then (I don't recall a mention of East Germany specifically, just the wall coming down).  They are like the original 1929 "The Mystery of Cabin Island".
Cabin Island, what about it?
#20
Quote from: tomswift2002 on October 15, 2024, 03:59:51 PMOf course by 2034, Simon & Schuster might have scanned it in a released a digital copy.
Why haven't they done that yet?