#17 Murder at the Mall

[Sam Spade]

In case you didn't know, case #17 Murder at the Mall is in stores now.

[SDLagent]

Cool!

But I thought it was coming out on the 25th.

[Sam Spade]

Cool!

But I thought it was coming out on the 25th.

I thought so too, but the S&S website and Amazon.com have it in stock.

[SkyWarp]

Hardy Boys books (even as far back as the casefiles) tend to come out earlier than their "street dates."  Comic Books are not quite so lucky.  As you will notice they are either on time or late.  Same goes true with the HBUB Graphic Novels.

EDIT:  Oh, Forgot to add that places such as Amazon.com get the books a few days earlier than your local book store.  Why?  Because Amazon doesn't need to distribute books to its local stores.  They get them and then sell them.  Bookstores or other types of stores, many times have to distribute the books from their warehouses or distribution centers.  That takes a few more days. 

[tomswift2002]

I seem to recall that some of the later Casefiles tended to be released almost half-month before their release dates.  I remember that Casefiles #127 Dead In The Water was in stores by December 15, 1997, and the release date wasn't till early January 1998 (possible January 3-4).  So, on Boxing Day 1997, I was able to pick up Dead In The Water with Christmas money.

[Lola]

I put in my order at Walmart.com and it's due to be here on the 23rd.

[SDLagent]

Just picked it up at the bookstore today!

[Sam Spade]

I just went to Books-A-Million the other day to buy it becouse they allway have them there, but they didn't have this one!
Does anybody know what stores sell them
Where do you get them

[SDLagent]

I get my books at a little one of a kind book store in the town I live in they always have the new UB books there.

[Sam Spade]

Thanks for the info SDLagent. Anybody else

[SDLagent]

First of all this book does not take place at the Bayport Mall from the Casefiles or even at Bayview Mall from the previous UB books, but at an old mall on the eastside of Bayport.

Chet and Iola play more of a role in this book and I like that , but here?s something I don?t like:

For almost his whole life, Chet had been?well, overweight. But something must have snapped because suddenly he swore off junk food and started working out with that trainer of his. In just a few months, Chet?s stomach went from a hunk of flab to a concrete slab.

Chet giving up junk food? What! Although it paid off big time in this book I hope he goes back to being good old food loving Chet in the next book.

Something else that?s weird about this book is that in one part Joe sees a Bayport High student, named Adam Franklin, which is the same name as the Hardy?s airplane maintenance man from Missions #3 and #5.       

This is pretty good book it has good plot, the boys use there heads and they don?t fight at ALL, 4 out of 5 stars.

[tomswift2002]

Did S&S decide to continue the Chet weight lifting story line from the Casefiles #63 Cold Sweat book.  Cause if they did, I don't know how many young kids would get the connection, or even the connection to Chet being an aerobics instructor in the revised Secret Of The Old Mill.

[SDLagent]

Has any body else read this book yet?

[tomswift2002]

Just picked up my copy today.  Although, I'm still reading Melissa Scott's Deep Space Nine book Proud Helios, so I won't be starting it just yet. 

[Sam Spade]

Has any body else read this book yet?

I haven't read it yet, allthough I really, really want too!!! But as I said before, my local book stores didn't have it last time I looked!
But I was wondering if the 'Chums' were in this one.
Were they