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Frank and Joe investigate the legend of Whalebone Island when they receive a warning concerning a sunken freighter.Tags
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Owls Head 2021 - #3 A perfect read as i sit and look across the water at a New England island, watching boats go by, with a lighthouse just around the bend! Next up in my Blue Hardy Boys collection - The Secret Warning. Stolen golden Egyptian antiquities, shipwrecks, ghosts in an island lighthouse.....and a whole lot of traipsing back and forth between Bayport, New York City and Philadelphia for our young sleuths. Plenty of unrealistic moments combined with some perplexing mysteries all jumbled together in wonderful Hardy Boys style. Super quick enjoyable read, especially here on my coastal winter vacation!
I absolutely loved Nancy Drew growing up. This was a series I latched on to for dear life and never let go. So after my obsession with Nancy Drew started to dwindle (mostly because I had read all the ones I could get my hands on), I moved on to The Hardy Boys because that was the natural next step, duh. Love the Hardy Boys (though they weren't quite as amazing and Nancy Drew and her friends).
Strange events involve Frank and Joe Hardy in a mystery which shrouds an ancient treasure--the golden head of the Pharaoh Rhamaton IV. The owner of the million-dollar golden Pharaoh's head claims it was aboard the freighter 'Katawa', which sank not far from Whalebone Island. But suspicious developments indicate that Mehmet Zufar may be trying to defraud the shipping line's insurance company. Frank and Joe enthusiastically accept the challenge of their famous detective father to assist him in investigating the complex case for Transmarine Underwriters.
First and last Hardy Boys I ever read.
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Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is actually a pseudonym for any number of ghostwriters who have had the distinction of writing stories for the Hardy Boys series. The series was originally created by Edward Stratmeyer in 1926, the same mastermind of the Nancy Drew detective series, Tom Swift, the Rover Boys and other characters. While show more Stratmeyer created the outlines for the original series, it was Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane who breathed life to the stories and created the persona Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane wrote for the series for over twenty years and is credited with success of the early collection of stories. As the series became more popular, it was pared down, the format changed and new ghostwriters added their own flavor to the stories. Part of the draw of the Hardy Boys is that as the authors changed, so to did the times and the story lines. While there is no one true author of the series, each ghostwriter can be given credit for enhancing the life of this series and never unveiling that there really is no Franklin W. Dixon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Secret Warning
- Original title
- The secret warning
- Original publication date
- 1938; 1966 (revised) (revised)
- First words
- Tap! Tap! Tap!
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Joe looked at Frank with a sly smile. His brother winked back.
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