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Helping in a case their father is working on, the Hardy brothers try to find an informer who has telephoned from a booth in their home town, and are hired by a carnival owner to spot pickpockets.Tags
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Picked this up from a charity store in Bristol, mainly for its cover (although not the one shown here - it had Joe Hardy about to step off the top of a ferris wheel blindfolded). I read it on the way back. It was good fun - enjoyable twists, mixed in with a couple of bits of hilariously bad writing. Totally preposterous of course. Not really ratable.
This book is solely based upon the adventures of Joe & Frank Hardy sons of Fenton Hardy. While at a carnival searching for pickpockets. Something valuable is stolen from them. Some of the workers at the carnival as the boys notice have strange whale tattoos. The boys & their friends Chet, Tony, and Biff start of on another case. Unaware of the dangers that await them. The end outcome is extraordinary & I cant wait to read more of these books
This book was my second I've read in this series & I was so astonished at this mystery. I would recommend for the years eight & up to read this. This type of genre is my favorite because it's a mix of action and mystery. Everything is unexpected. This book was so much fun to read & the end outcome show more was fascinating with them finding the whale & all that good stuff. Probably if I could be either Frank or Joe I would be Frank. I cant wait to read more of this series. show less
This book was my second I've read in this series & I was so astonished at this mystery. I would recommend for the years eight & up to read this. This type of genre is my favorite because it's a mix of action and mystery. Everything is unexpected. This book was so much fun to read & the end outcome show more was fascinating with them finding the whale & all that good stuff. Probably if I could be either Frank or Joe I would be Frank. I cant wait to read more of this series. show less
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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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- Canonical title
- The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
- Original title
- The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
- Original publication date
- 1968
- People/Characters
- Frank Hardy; Joe Hardy; Fenton Hardy
- First words
- Joe Hardy studied the photograph in his hand and frowned, then burst out laughing.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I'm delighted to meet you, Cousin Elmer. Come sit down and I'll explain everything to you. It's a whale of a story!"
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 7
