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When a crime syndicate takes over Bayport's reservoir Frank and Joe Hardy help their detective father solve the sinister mystery.Tags
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Cayman 2025 - #8 - Always a winner on vacation, a Hardy Boys book! This one continues to thrill the 10 to 12-year old in me as i go on their adventures with their chums. It does give on pause as to how all these evil crime-laden syndicates always seem to end up operating in the charming coastal New England town of Bayport. But i digress. Rollicking romp as always......very much enjoyed the quick ride!
This story had me after page one. I wanted to learn about the history of dams after reading this book. I love how Chet is lured into this mystery along with a cameo from Chet's sister Cassie. Fascinating.
The only Hardy Boys I ever read, but it's the first book I remember becoming engrossed in that wasn't a comic book.
There is a crisis in Bayport! Soon the city will be without water! Every night, water strangely disappears from the new reservoir near Skull Mountain. Frank and Joe Hardy join forces with a team of skilled engineers to solve the baffling mystery.
the book is about kids get stuck on a mountain thats call skull mountain
Beautiful copy, clean and tight. Dust jacket is very good, albeit price-clipped.
Near fine condition, original cover
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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 Secret of Skull Mountain
- Original title
- The Secret of Skull Mountain
- Original publication date
- 1948; 1966 (revised) (revised)
- People/Characters
- Frank Hardy; Joe Hardy; Fenton Hardy
- First words
- "Extra! Extra-a! 'Bayport Faces Water Shortage'! Read all-l about-t it!"
"What do you mean, we can't go swimming?" asked Joe Hardy. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"From now on, there's going to be plenty of water for Saturday baths!"
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We sure are," Joe replied. "Now we'll have plenty of water in the swimming pool!"
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