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#61
General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Hardy family relatives
Last post by tomswift2002 - September 16, 2024, 04:32:36 PMQuote from: MacGyver on September 15, 2024, 08:46:00 PMThere's also their mother, Laura Hardy.Is her first name given in the original series or is Laura only a more modern thing in recent series?
Laura's name was given way back in 1927 by Leslie McFarlane.
#62
Hardy Boys Originals / Digests / Re: No. 182 Secret of the Sold...
Last post by MacGyver - September 15, 2024, 08:55:10 PMI can't say I remember much about this book but I will say that I do appreciate the title using the classic format that uses words like "mystery" or "secret" or "clue" in the title. The Secret of the Soldier's Gold is pretty cool for that reason at least.
#63
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #43 Strategic Moves (31st ...
Last post by MacGyver - September 15, 2024, 08:48:22 PMI particularly enjoy the chess scenes in this book! 
#64
General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Hardy family relatives
Last post by MacGyver - September 15, 2024, 08:46:00 PMThere's also their mother, Laura Hardy. Is her first name given in the original series or is Laura only a more modern thing in recent series?
Is her first name given in the original series or is Laura only a more modern thing in recent series? #65
Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #43 Strategic Moves (31st ...
Last post by SkyWarp - September 14, 2024, 08:54:25 PMSo as I start to get into reading this book the VERY first thing that pops out at me is that Pyotr and Petra are from Kiev, USSR. And Of course, Kiev is part of Ukraine now.
I really don't remember much of anything from this book considering I am pretty sure I last read it back in 1990. I am pretty sure I have never read this one again since. I am actually really interested in it. I am just a chapter into it, so hopefully it holds up to my expectations.
I really don't remember much of anything from this book considering I am pretty sure I last read it back in 1990. I am pretty sure I have never read this one again since. I am actually really interested in it. I am just a chapter into it, so hopefully it holds up to my expectations.
#66
Hardy Boys Originals / Digests / Re: No. 182 Secret of the Sold...
Last post by Bigfootman - September 14, 2024, 12:20:59 PMThe same ghostwriter wrote the Nancy Drew digest "The Mystery in Tornado Alley", which also killed off a villain. George Edward Stanley pretty did whatever he wanted with his books, and the editors didn't seem to care. He is pretty infamous for writing what are considered the worst books in the HB Digest series, "The Case of the Psychic's Vision" and "The Mystery of the Black Rhino". (I will say that one of his ND Digest books, "No Strings Attached", was pretty good)
#67
Hardy Boys Originals / Digests / Re: No. 182 Secret of the Sold...
Last post by tomswift2002 - September 13, 2024, 09:54:42 PMI haven't read it since 2003-04, and I recall that at the time it was ok but not good. Otherwise in some ways I think it reminded me of "Evil In Amsterdam", but not as good and I don't recall much 20 years later.
#68
General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Hardy family relatives
Last post by tomswift2002 - September 13, 2024, 09:45:53 PMTheir Aunt Janet Hardy and her daughter appear in the "Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys Solve A Christmas Mystery" story from the 1980 Family Circle magazine and was later reprinted in SuperSleuths Volume 1.
Presumably Janet's husband and Fenton's brother is mentioned as being a lawyer and getting the Frank & Joe's legal troubles dealt with in The Secret of The Red Arrow in the 2013 launch of The Hardy Boys Adventures. I'm assuming that he's Janet's husband, since in 1980 the majority of women took their husbands last name upon marriage, and unwed mothers were still not looked upon too favorable, so I don't think Janet Hardy would be Fenton and Gertrude's blood sister, more like sister-in-law.
"The Phantom Freighter" has Fenton recovering a portrait of Great-Grandfather Hardy that belonged to Gertrude.
And of course there was Chris Hardy in Double Exposure.
And if you wanted too...Nancy Drew as Frank's wife and Bess Marvin as Joe's wife.
Presumably Janet's husband and Fenton's brother is mentioned as being a lawyer and getting the Frank & Joe's legal troubles dealt with in The Secret of The Red Arrow in the 2013 launch of The Hardy Boys Adventures. I'm assuming that he's Janet's husband, since in 1980 the majority of women took their husbands last name upon marriage, and unwed mothers were still not looked upon too favorable, so I don't think Janet Hardy would be Fenton and Gertrude's blood sister, more like sister-in-law.
"The Phantom Freighter" has Fenton recovering a portrait of Great-Grandfather Hardy that belonged to Gertrude.
And of course there was Chris Hardy in Double Exposure.
And if you wanted too...Nancy Drew as Frank's wife and Bess Marvin as Joe's wife.
#69
Hardy Boys Originals / Digests / No. 182 Secret of the Soldier'...
Last post by CalvinKnox - September 13, 2024, 07:10:25 PMPublished Date: December 2003
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 boys on a treasure hunt! After World War II, a defecting German soldier buried a fortune in gold bars in Mrs. Rilke's childhood backyard. She asks the Hardys to recover the treasure so she can donate it to charity. The problem is that another woman now knows about the gold, and she and her sons are looking for it too. Can Frank and Joe find the loot before it falls into the wrong hands?
I read this book a few nights ago, probably for the first time since 2004. I received this book, along with Trouble in Warp Space from a friend who's father worked for Scholastic (the Scholastic versions of both books don't seem to be numbered for some reason). I didn't find it very memorable (unlike Warp Space), before I started reading it again, I could only recall two scenes from it (when they first meet the three Portuguese facist brothers, and when the same brothers hold the Hardys at gun point when they find them digging up the gold.
Overall it was a decent read, heaps better than any Hardy Boys book that has come out in the last decade. It made some interesting notes about Portugal and Lisbon, like one character's comment about the Salazar dictatorship that ruled Portugal until the 70s. With a few changes (or reduced to the original outline) I think it could have worked well as a casefile perhaps, Frank and Joe's rental boat is blown up, pretty serious and well organised villians (the Portuguese neo nazi movement, including at least two law enforcement personal, and two of the bad guys die during the course of the book. However, Frank and Joe just don't feel anywhere the same as in the Casefiles, I felt as though they suffered from a complete lack of characterisation.
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 boys on a treasure hunt! After World War II, a defecting German soldier buried a fortune in gold bars in Mrs. Rilke's childhood backyard. She asks the Hardys to recover the treasure so she can donate it to charity. The problem is that another woman now knows about the gold, and she and her sons are looking for it too. Can Frank and Joe find the loot before it falls into the wrong hands?
I read this book a few nights ago, probably for the first time since 2004. I received this book, along with Trouble in Warp Space from a friend who's father worked for Scholastic (the Scholastic versions of both books don't seem to be numbered for some reason). I didn't find it very memorable (unlike Warp Space), before I started reading it again, I could only recall two scenes from it (when they first meet the three Portuguese facist brothers, and when the same brothers hold the Hardys at gun point when they find them digging up the gold.
Overall it was a decent read, heaps better than any Hardy Boys book that has come out in the last decade. It made some interesting notes about Portugal and Lisbon, like one character's comment about the Salazar dictatorship that ruled Portugal until the 70s. With a few changes (or reduced to the original outline) I think it could have worked well as a casefile perhaps, Frank and Joe's rental boat is blown up, pretty serious and well organised villians (the Portuguese neo nazi movement, including at least two law enforcement personal, and two of the bad guys die during the course of the book. However, Frank and Joe just don't feel anywhere the same as in the Casefiles, I felt as though they suffered from a complete lack of characterisation.
#70
General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: What's the last book or it...
Last post by CalvinKnox - September 13, 2024, 04:54:19 PMUnfortunately, my copy was well used and alas, doesn't have the dust jacket.