The Crisscross Crime #150

[MacGyver]

Do you know if this abandoned title was incorporated elsewhere, perhaps as a Casefile?

[tomswift2002]

No.  It was buried in Simon & Schuster's warehouse somewhere, and has never seen the light of day.  Back in the late-90's S&S editor of the Hardy Boys at the time, Anne Greenberg, even confirmed that it existed to I think James Keeline, but she didn't have time to pull it out and show him and then in the early-2000's she was let go in a corporate shuffling and no longer had access to it.

[MacGyver]

Okay. Thanks for the information. Too bad this book never saw the light of day in some form or another.

[Hardy Boys UB Fan]

Mystery of the Silver Star was the second #86 written.  It was written after the Casefiles had been launched and S&S was restarting the Mystery Stories.

That said, S&S was trying to make them faster versions of #%u2019s 1-83, and in my recent re-read of the Mystery Stories, a lot of the G&D books have been at or just below the Casefiles in terms of violence and action.

What digests would you say are close to the Casefiles?

[tomswift2002]

#84 Revenge of the Desert Phantom
#85 The Skyfire Puzzle
(These were the Pilot books for what ultimately became the Casefiles).
#150 The Crisscross Crime (this was actually commissioned as Casefiles #130)


As for closest to a Casefile that are unknown:

#161 Training For Trouble
#153 Eye On Crime

But, really as I've been going through the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories I've found that the revised texts of 1-38, and then 39-66 are just as violent as the Casefiles, although the action is not as quick as the Casefiles, because the books are 20 chapters vs the Casefiles range of 14-18 chapters.