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The Hardy Boys #54
The Mysterious Caravan
When the Hardy Boys take a winter vacation in Jamaica, Joe finds an ancient bronze death mask washed up near their beach house during a violent storm. Helping the Hardys and their friends in this bizarre mystery is William, a Jamaican boy, who flies to New York with startling news, only to be intercepted and held for ransom—the death mask! Frank and Joe must rescue William, plunge into their father’s airline-ticket theft case, and fly into a maze of danger in Africa.
182 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
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Franklin W. Dixon
734 books991 followersFranklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). Dixon was also the writer attributed for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series, published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Canadian author Leslie McFarlane is believed to have written the first sixteen Hardy Boys books, but worked to a detailed plot and character outline for each story. The outlines are believed to have originated with Edward Stratemeyer, with later books outlined by his daughters Edna C. Squier and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Edward and Harriet also edited all books in the series through the mid-1960s. Other writers of the original books include MacFarlane's wife Amy, John Button, Andrew E. Svenson, and Adams herself; most of the outlines were done by Adams and Svenson. A number of other writers and editors were recruited to revise the outlines and update the texts in line with a more modern sensibility, starting in the late 1950s.
The principal author for the Ted Scott books was John W. Duffield.
Canadian author Leslie McFarlane is believed to have written the first sixteen Hardy Boys books, but worked to a detailed plot and character outline for each story. The outlines are believed to have originated with Edward Stratemeyer, with later books outlined by his daughters Edna C. Squier and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Edward and Harriet also edited all books in the series through the mid-1960s. Other writers of the original books include MacFarlane's wife Amy, John Button, Andrew E. Svenson, and Adams herself; most of the outlines were done by Adams and Svenson. A number of other writers and editors were recruited to revise the outlines and update the texts in line with a more modern sensibility, starting in the late 1950s.
The principal author for the Ted Scott books was John W. Duffield.
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December 1, 2023
2023 reads, #91-95. I recently discovered that the first three Hardy Boys books, all of them published in 1927, have passed into the public domain, so I thought as a nostalgic treat I would go ahead and read them, since they can now be legally downloaded for free. I'm sure I don't have to tell any of my fellow middle-aged Generation Xers how large this book series loomed over my life as a kid in the 1970s; it was essentially the de facto gift that boys always gave other boys whenever they'd get invited to a birthday party at the rollerskating rink or Showbiz Pizza, because it was one of the few book series in those years still being released as hardbacks, so was deemed a "more substantial present" than the Judy Blume paperbacks we were all actually reading in those days, instead of these badly dated snoozers (or so they were perceived by us at the time). That makes it an ironic situation, that I owned something like 20 or 25 Hardy Boys books at the height of my childhood, but I don't think I ever read even a single one of them all the way from the front cover to the back; so this was another thing that made me curious about reapproaching the series, to see if I had avoided them back then simply because I wasn't a fan of these kinds of action-adventure stories (a genre I still don't like very much, even now in my mid-fifties), or if they're perhaps terribly written and we've all collectively built up this false memory of them being good.
That turned out to be difficult to determine in the case of the first three, which I read almost a hundred years after they were first published, because they can't help but be artifacts of their times by now, and so in many ways are so outdated that it appears ludicrous that the publishing industry was still trying to present these as "contemporary stories" back when I was a kid in the '70s. For those who don't know, the series is centered around two brothers in their late teens named Frank and Joe Hardy who live in the small Atlantic Seaboard town of Bayport; inspired by their father, a retired New York City detective who's now a renowned private investigator, the two are fascinated by the act of solving mysteries, especially easy to do in their case since the local police force are the most incompetent group of boobs this side of the Keystone Cops. (Leslie McFarlane, who bitterly ghostwrote the first 25 titles of the series, made it clear in his correspondence with friends that part of his aim with these books was to make an entire generation of youth suspicious of authority figures, since he otherwise hated writing these kinds of children's books and wanted to do something in them to please just himself.)
The first three books of the series are essentially cookiecutter stories with the same exact plot; namely, some ne'er-do-wells slink into Bayport and set up a criminal operation in an abandoned building "on the edge of town" (shuttered mansions in the first two books, a shuttered mill in the third), which the Hardy brothers accidentally stumble across during their motorcycling adventures in the country with their chums (get ready for a lot of references to "chums" and "pals" and "lads" in these novels), which they're then forced to solve themselves because of the local police force not believing them and Dad off on his own adventure, which invariably leads to the Scooby-Doo-like capture of the criminals ("I would've gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids!") and a huge reward from the wealthy industrialist the criminals had been planning on targeting (all in all, around a quarter-million dollars in today's money when you add up the rewards of the first three books, leading to one of the common complaints this series has received over the decades, that the Hardy Boys can essentially drop everything and travel halfway across the world whenever they want, because of being basically millionaires before they've even graduated high school).
That makes the books okay for what they are, and certainly prototypes for the "kids have actual agency" school of thought about children's literature that didn't become the mainstream norm until the 1950s, easily explaining why they were so explosively popular from the moment they began being released (when these were first published, most kids' books were still being written in the Victorian style, in which it was the adults who actually saved the day and children were presented as silent admirers who always deferred to the superior wisdom of "dear Papa"); but they're still a product of their times, including badly outdated slang and technology, a focus on activities no actual teens have been into since your grandparents' times (get ready for a lot of talk about speedboats and ham radios), and clues that by today's standards would be considered cartoonishly obvious (an entire major plot point in the first book, for example, revolves around all of these people being too stupid to understand that a criminal might wear a wig when committing a crime, leading to dozens of pages of teens standing around saying, "But he can't be the robber! HE HAS BLACK HAIR!!!!!!1!!"), making these interesting historical documents but in no way at all fun reading experiences that can be enjoyed in a contemporary way.
However, this still didn't answer my question about why I in particular didn't seem to connect with the Hardy Boys books back in my '70s youth, when the latest titles were being written in the contemporary culture; so after finishing these three, I went to the Chicago Public Library and checked out two of the titles written during my own childhood and that I in fact personally owned back in the day, 1972's The Masked Monkey (ghostwritten by Vincent Buranelli) and 1975's The Mysterious Caravan (ghostwritten by Andrew Svenson). They weren't exactly bad, which means that I definitively rejected them at the time mostly because I simply didn't like the action-adventure genre in general (interestingly, both of these titles are from the Hardy Boys' proto-Indiana-Jones "globetrotting years," in which the stories start in Bayport but before they're over take the brothers to such exotic locations as the South American rainforest and the Moroccan desert); but the pre-read assumption I did confirm is that a big part of why I rejected them at the time was simply because in the '70s they were still being written in the stilted, awkward prose of 1950s Mid-Century Modernism (and being illustrated in this outdated style as well), and all of us back then had gotten used by that point* to adults trying to feed us old 1950s crap and telling us it's still great for contemporary times, and us summarily ignoring all this old 1950s crap without ever going back and giving it even a second thought.
[*It's surreal and hilarious to me now to think back to my childhood in the 1970s and remember just how incredibly much of it still revolved around popular culture from the 1950s; keep in mind that "children's entertainment" hadn't yet become the trillion-dollar industry it now is, and that at that point the '50s were only twenty years old, so back then we didn't think twice about the idea that the only thing on television on weekday afternoons were reruns of things like The Lone Ranger and George Reeves' Superman and ancient old Three Stooges and Little Rascals shorts. Watching those now, another entire 50 years after the fact, it's hard to believe that these kinds of shows were being presented to us as perfectly fine and normal contemporary entertainment, stuff we actual kids just essentially ignored altogether, one of the major reasons Generation X became so obsessed with producing quality children's entertainment once we became adults ourselves.]
So all in all, my mini-dive into the world of the Hardy Boys this month was the kind of mixed bag these experiments always tend to be; illuminating from a historical standpoint, sort of nominally worth my time from an entertainment aspect, but not even close to being anymore the actual contemporary stories appropriate for contemporary kids that Simon & Schuster still desperately want to convince you they are. Have fun if you're an oldie like me, reapproaching them for nostalgic reasons; but for God's sake, don't force these badly dated relics anymore on any actual ten-year-old boys in your life.
That turned out to be difficult to determine in the case of the first three, which I read almost a hundred years after they were first published, because they can't help but be artifacts of their times by now, and so in many ways are so outdated that it appears ludicrous that the publishing industry was still trying to present these as "contemporary stories" back when I was a kid in the '70s. For those who don't know, the series is centered around two brothers in their late teens named Frank and Joe Hardy who live in the small Atlantic Seaboard town of Bayport; inspired by their father, a retired New York City detective who's now a renowned private investigator, the two are fascinated by the act of solving mysteries, especially easy to do in their case since the local police force are the most incompetent group of boobs this side of the Keystone Cops. (Leslie McFarlane, who bitterly ghostwrote the first 25 titles of the series, made it clear in his correspondence with friends that part of his aim with these books was to make an entire generation of youth suspicious of authority figures, since he otherwise hated writing these kinds of children's books and wanted to do something in them to please just himself.)
The first three books of the series are essentially cookiecutter stories with the same exact plot; namely, some ne'er-do-wells slink into Bayport and set up a criminal operation in an abandoned building "on the edge of town" (shuttered mansions in the first two books, a shuttered mill in the third), which the Hardy brothers accidentally stumble across during their motorcycling adventures in the country with their chums (get ready for a lot of references to "chums" and "pals" and "lads" in these novels), which they're then forced to solve themselves because of the local police force not believing them and Dad off on his own adventure, which invariably leads to the Scooby-Doo-like capture of the criminals ("I would've gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids!") and a huge reward from the wealthy industrialist the criminals had been planning on targeting (all in all, around a quarter-million dollars in today's money when you add up the rewards of the first three books, leading to one of the common complaints this series has received over the decades, that the Hardy Boys can essentially drop everything and travel halfway across the world whenever they want, because of being basically millionaires before they've even graduated high school).
That makes the books okay for what they are, and certainly prototypes for the "kids have actual agency" school of thought about children's literature that didn't become the mainstream norm until the 1950s, easily explaining why they were so explosively popular from the moment they began being released (when these were first published, most kids' books were still being written in the Victorian style, in which it was the adults who actually saved the day and children were presented as silent admirers who always deferred to the superior wisdom of "dear Papa"); but they're still a product of their times, including badly outdated slang and technology, a focus on activities no actual teens have been into since your grandparents' times (get ready for a lot of talk about speedboats and ham radios), and clues that by today's standards would be considered cartoonishly obvious (an entire major plot point in the first book, for example, revolves around all of these people being too stupid to understand that a criminal might wear a wig when committing a crime, leading to dozens of pages of teens standing around saying, "But he can't be the robber! HE HAS BLACK HAIR!!!!!!1!!"), making these interesting historical documents but in no way at all fun reading experiences that can be enjoyed in a contemporary way.
However, this still didn't answer my question about why I in particular didn't seem to connect with the Hardy Boys books back in my '70s youth, when the latest titles were being written in the contemporary culture; so after finishing these three, I went to the Chicago Public Library and checked out two of the titles written during my own childhood and that I in fact personally owned back in the day, 1972's The Masked Monkey (ghostwritten by Vincent Buranelli) and 1975's The Mysterious Caravan (ghostwritten by Andrew Svenson). They weren't exactly bad, which means that I definitively rejected them at the time mostly because I simply didn't like the action-adventure genre in general (interestingly, both of these titles are from the Hardy Boys' proto-Indiana-Jones "globetrotting years," in which the stories start in Bayport but before they're over take the brothers to such exotic locations as the South American rainforest and the Moroccan desert); but the pre-read assumption I did confirm is that a big part of why I rejected them at the time was simply because in the '70s they were still being written in the stilted, awkward prose of 1950s Mid-Century Modernism (and being illustrated in this outdated style as well), and all of us back then had gotten used by that point* to adults trying to feed us old 1950s crap and telling us it's still great for contemporary times, and us summarily ignoring all this old 1950s crap without ever going back and giving it even a second thought.
[*It's surreal and hilarious to me now to think back to my childhood in the 1970s and remember just how incredibly much of it still revolved around popular culture from the 1950s; keep in mind that "children's entertainment" hadn't yet become the trillion-dollar industry it now is, and that at that point the '50s were only twenty years old, so back then we didn't think twice about the idea that the only thing on television on weekday afternoons were reruns of things like The Lone Ranger and George Reeves' Superman and ancient old Three Stooges and Little Rascals shorts. Watching those now, another entire 50 years after the fact, it's hard to believe that these kinds of shows were being presented to us as perfectly fine and normal contemporary entertainment, stuff we actual kids just essentially ignored altogether, one of the major reasons Generation X became so obsessed with producing quality children's entertainment once we became adults ourselves.]
So all in all, my mini-dive into the world of the Hardy Boys this month was the kind of mixed bag these experiments always tend to be; illuminating from a historical standpoint, sort of nominally worth my time from an entertainment aspect, but not even close to being anymore the actual contemporary stories appropriate for contemporary kids that Simon & Schuster still desperately want to convince you they are. Have fun if you're an oldie like me, reapproaching them for nostalgic reasons; but for God's sake, don't force these badly dated relics anymore on any actual ten-year-old boys in your life.
October 5, 2016
Very exciting and intriguing! I loved the world travel aspect of this book and also the nonstop mystery and action!
July 26, 2021
For the last 2 years I have been re-reading the Hardy Boys books of my youth, and I really enjoyed The Mysterious Caravan. I've had this book for over 40 years; its cover still displays a "super reader" sticker from elementary school! The Hardys and Chet embark on a mystery in Africa after coming across an old mask that contains directions to a lost treasure from an age-old mysterious caravan. At the same time the tale ties in with a case Mr. Hardy is working on about fake travel tickets. This story was written in the mid 1970s and unlike many of the older hardcover Hardy Boys tales it really isn't hopelessly aged. Smuggling, fake travel tickets, the mystery of an historical treasure are all things that could take place today! The story is plausible, fast-paced, interesting and any fan of the series will enjoy The Mysterious Caravan. The cover artwork is very good but the interior drawings are not as good as the older ones, something seen in most of the "50s" numbered books written and published in the 1970s. But a great read!
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June 3, 2012The Mysterious Caravan
Franklin W. Dixon
copyright 1975
mystery
This book is about two detectives solving a big mystery. They go to a mysterious desert and find that there are random camels just standing with supplies on their back. They then take a closer look and find that there are people illegally trading goods. the thieves then find the boys and realize that the boys are spying on them. The boys then fall in a series of traps that the theives made. The boys then get help from their peers and their detective father to take the theives down.
The theme of this book is to never give up. The boys were beat and trapped plenty of times and they decided to keep going. They got closer and closer using clues to get these theives and put them in their place. The boys also were threatened a lot on if they kept on at the case that the thieves would find them and kill them but the boys ended up winning.
The writing style of the author is to keep the reader hooked. All of the previous books I have read, the author always ended the chapter with a bang. This always makes the reader want to keep reading and finish the book. Audiences that would be interested in this book would probably be people who like mysterious and know how to detect clues and foreshadowing throughout the book. I personally love reading these mysteries and they always keep me hooked on reading to the next chapter. This book is a lot more interesing that other books that I have read. For example, Tom Sawyer was not always interesting in the whole book, but mostly just in a few chapters. This book stays tense every single chapter.
joe sucked in his breath. "I can't make out all of the words, only a few. They say, 'Get mask . . . us . . . and . . . will knock off Fenton Hardy.' " pg. 81 paragraph 5. This shows the writing style of the author as very tense. This also shows that the reader is given clues so that they can think about what will happen next in the story. This finally piques the readers interest to want to read the next chapter and find out what the note really meant or whatever happened after that.
I think I have a very close relationship with the two detectives. I am always solving mysteries throughout my life and finding clues to help me solve them. I also never give up just like them. If I am losing a game of basketball, I always try to fight back and take the victory. Unlike me, the boys always win their fight. This book affected me in a good way. It made me realize that their are always plenty of mysteries I can solve. I just have to put more time into solving them. I enjoyed the teeth biting suspence of this wonderful story. I enjoyed it because a book without suspense and too much talking, i think is just too boring for me.
Franklin W. Dixon
copyright 1975
mystery
This book is about two detectives solving a big mystery. They go to a mysterious desert and find that there are random camels just standing with supplies on their back. They then take a closer look and find that there are people illegally trading goods. the thieves then find the boys and realize that the boys are spying on them. The boys then fall in a series of traps that the theives made. The boys then get help from their peers and their detective father to take the theives down.
The theme of this book is to never give up. The boys were beat and trapped plenty of times and they decided to keep going. They got closer and closer using clues to get these theives and put them in their place. The boys also were threatened a lot on if they kept on at the case that the thieves would find them and kill them but the boys ended up winning.
The writing style of the author is to keep the reader hooked. All of the previous books I have read, the author always ended the chapter with a bang. This always makes the reader want to keep reading and finish the book. Audiences that would be interested in this book would probably be people who like mysterious and know how to detect clues and foreshadowing throughout the book. I personally love reading these mysteries and they always keep me hooked on reading to the next chapter. This book is a lot more interesing that other books that I have read. For example, Tom Sawyer was not always interesting in the whole book, but mostly just in a few chapters. This book stays tense every single chapter.
joe sucked in his breath. "I can't make out all of the words, only a few. They say, 'Get mask . . . us . . . and . . . will knock off Fenton Hardy.' " pg. 81 paragraph 5. This shows the writing style of the author as very tense. This also shows that the reader is given clues so that they can think about what will happen next in the story. This finally piques the readers interest to want to read the next chapter and find out what the note really meant or whatever happened after that.
I think I have a very close relationship with the two detectives. I am always solving mysteries throughout my life and finding clues to help me solve them. I also never give up just like them. If I am losing a game of basketball, I always try to fight back and take the victory. Unlike me, the boys always win their fight. This book affected me in a good way. It made me realize that their are always plenty of mysteries I can solve. I just have to put more time into solving them. I enjoyed the teeth biting suspence of this wonderful story. I enjoyed it because a book without suspense and too much talking, i think is just too boring for me.
February 13, 2021
I was not super impressed by this story. While it was well laid out, I just didn't enjoy this mystery. The death mask and "curses" were just not my thing. It also felt like several events happened over and over, which made the book rather boring.
August 15, 2025
My seven year old says: "If I could give it a thousand stars, I would." Let's hope he's more judicious when it comes time to propose or select what college he attends... but in the meantime, F.W. Dixon--whoever that master of mystery is--churned out another hit that struck a chord with my son.
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August 20, 2011This book introduced me to cous-cous. Of course, the Boys made fun of it by saying "moose-moose" and "goose-goose", but I still think of that every time I'm at the grocery store.
February 27, 2016
It was good. But I wish there was more fighting in it.
September 30, 2016
Awesome HB mystery! Finished it last night before going to bed. Even though there were some confusing parts here and there, it was still such an awesome read! :)
Worth reading.
Worth reading.
May 1, 2024
Another book with two unrelated mysteries going on parallel to each other. One on which Mr. Fenton Hardy is working, and one whose details are obscured and rudimentary, and one on which the boys are working.
The gangs join force because they have a common enemy? World class racketeers are joining forces to stop a private detective? A little unlikely..
Third, an entire retinue heads to Africa. The story is fine till there. How do they manage to rope in the police in every country? 🤔
And extremely cooperative police forces, at that. At the beck and call of the Hardy boys. The Celliere angle was still a little relatable.
Lastly, there is an ancient treasure / buried city (not revealed till the end), who's directions are scrawled on a map behind the mask. They are literally scribbles that seem to fit on the modern day maps and guide the Hardys to the treasure. I'm assuming people would have looked for it before? At least, the Africans would have!
The boys were driving along a common road. They randomly stop at a point, get down to explore a random cavern and find the treasure? An extremely stretched out story was wrapped up in a few paragraphs right when the interesting bit came! I couldn't believe the book was about to end in a few pages. Nothing had been revealed up to that point! And suddenly, wham bam, lying there was tons of gold!
The gangs join force because they have a common enemy? World class racketeers are joining forces to stop a private detective? A little unlikely..
Third, an entire retinue heads to Africa. The story is fine till there. How do they manage to rope in the police in every country? 🤔
And extremely cooperative police forces, at that. At the beck and call of the Hardy boys. The Celliere angle was still a little relatable.
Lastly, there is an ancient treasure / buried city (not revealed till the end), who's directions are scrawled on a map behind the mask. They are literally scribbles that seem to fit on the modern day maps and guide the Hardys to the treasure. I'm assuming people would have looked for it before? At least, the Africans would have!
The boys were driving along a common road. They randomly stop at a point, get down to explore a random cavern and find the treasure? An extremely stretched out story was wrapped up in a few paragraphs right when the interesting bit came! I couldn't believe the book was about to end in a few pages. Nothing had been revealed up to that point! And suddenly, wham bam, lying there was tons of gold!
November 12, 2021
The Hardy Boys are in Jamaica on vacation when they discover a "death Mask" washed up on the beach. They try to leave it with authorities before heading home to Bayport but t doesn't work. Thugs looking to steal it from them follow them home....so does their friend William who they met in Jamaica. Adding Chet to the group they end up traveling to Africa to solve the mystery of the mask. Chet's new hobby and diploma have him helping with his new knowledge of gold. Mr. Hardy's on a case of airport ticket scams and the two cases end up related. Looking through a market in Marrakesh for information on a leather jacket worn by one of the thugs has the Hardy's being chased and doing some chasing themselves. The desert, ancient gold artifacts, counterfeit plane tickets and new foods like cous-cous lead to an interesting adventure.
June 26, 2020
The Hardy boys are a lot more reckless and experience decidedly more violent encounters than Nancy Drew does, but the mystery follows a similar pattern with the same uncomfortable stereotypes about different cultures and countries. It amuses me that they actually tried to explain the boys' absence from school, because it never gets brought up in the Nancy Drew books. Do those teenage girls even go to school?
July 9, 2023
#54 of the series sees the Hardy Boys travel to Jamaica, then later to Africa. They have a few close calls, but solve the mystery in the end. To me, this one was a bit too easy.
One noteworthy point is that they used a different sketcher to provide pictures. Compared to previous versions, this particular illustrator is horrible!
A young person may find this one interesting.
One noteworthy point is that they used a different sketcher to provide pictures. Compared to previous versions, this particular illustrator is horrible!
A young person may find this one interesting.
September 9, 2023
A really enjoyable adventure for children. When the boys and their friends find a death mask washed up on a Jamaican beach they become targets for treasure hunters. Lots of action, twists and turns.
March 8, 2017
Fun and exciting, as usual.
February 16, 2018
Don't you just hate it when you're on vacation in Jamaica and an old death mask washes up on shore? Ugh, always the worst. The adventure in Morocco was especially cool in this one.
September 16, 2018
The Hardy Boys are wonderful, fast pace, action-filled books that are great to read.
October 4, 2018
I liked the book because it shows many conflicts and stuff that could happen in real life and it puts interesting details about what they're studying.
January 11, 2021
The most exciting book yet
March 5, 2022
Fun adventure and it taught me a new word: couscous. And taught me that adventures in exotic locations can be dangerous.
January 8, 2023
i really loved this book and definitely will reread it again
April 26, 2024
Can the Hardy Boys solve the mystery of the lost gold shipment, before criminals after the ancient gold get their first?
July 8, 2024
My first Hardy Boys-a lot like Nancy Drew-they ended up in Morocco 🇲🇦
August 30, 2025
4.07
Always love the Hardys
I've been reading and re-reading these books since I was 5 or 6, no joke
Always love the Hardys
I've been reading and re-reading these books since I was 5 or 6, no joke
February 23, 2017
The Hardy Boys and their friends go international with this book. The mystery begins with a tropical storm in Jamaica and ends in Marrakesh where the brothers literally get rocked in a casbah! That's no exaggeration, you just have to read it to believe it.
This is definitely one of the better stories after the originals and should be enjoyed by kids and parents both.
Find it! Buy it! Read it!
This is definitely one of the better stories after the originals and should be enjoyed by kids and parents both.
Find it! Buy it! Read it!
May 25, 2011
The Mysterious Caravan was a good mystery. It had a lot of good twists and turns and kept me reading. It was a little slow at the beginning, but it picked up pretty fast. The author used some good imagery to describe all the clues. The way he used imagery helped me see the clues clearly. I like to try and figure out the mystery as its happening and since the clues were well depicted, it made it easer. I didn’t like it because I thought it was a little too short. The author could have expanded on the plot a little more. I would recommend this to any one who wants a good mystery book.
Genre: mystery
Genre: mystery
May 21, 2019
When I first read Hardy Boys, I think I was in class 5, I had such a crush on Frank Hardy. I liked the brainy one over the brawny one and that sums up my first impression of Hardy Boys.
In their late teens, Frank and Joe Hardy take after their detective father Fenton Hardy. Frank is the older of the two and has more breakthroughs in the cases because he is the brainy one. Joe is the younger brother who more often than not is useful when things get hot and they need to fight their way out.
Like Nancy Drew, the books in the The Hardy Boys series re written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. And yes, the earlier books were better than the latter ones.
In their late teens, Frank and Joe Hardy take after their detective father Fenton Hardy. Frank is the older of the two and has more breakthroughs in the cases because he is the brainy one. Joe is the younger brother who more often than not is useful when things get hot and they need to fight their way out.
Like Nancy Drew, the books in the The Hardy Boys series re written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. And yes, the earlier books were better than the latter ones.
May 20, 2013
Bought this book to kill time. The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, together with friends Chet and William, discover an iron mask after a storm ravages the Jamaican beach one night. The mask, the later learn, is valuable, for many people are after it. As the gang find clues as to the mask's meaning, we're transported from place to place—Jamaica, the USA, and Marrakesh. An easy but worthwhile read. A reminder that we shouldn't lose our love for adventure. We must be thankful there's always The Hardy Boys series to turn to when we need some fun.
December 11, 2015
How could it be that in a storm a couple of boys find a mysterious mask in the sands of jam-aka. Well the Mysterious Caravan by Franklin W. Dixon has a lot of treasure and adventures.
The Hardy boy's are hunted by a team of treasure hunters who want the mask and barely escape with their lives. They set out into the Middle East to search for clues to the treasure and to the mask. It also has lots of plot twists that eventually led to the end of the book. Like how the boys mystery hooks in to an their fathers mystery of an airplane ticket theft. What they find out you'll just have to see.
The Hardy boy's are hunted by a team of treasure hunters who want the mask and barely escape with their lives. They set out into the Middle East to search for clues to the treasure and to the mask. It also has lots of plot twists that eventually led to the end of the book. Like how the boys mystery hooks in to an their fathers mystery of an airplane ticket theft. What they find out you'll just have to see.
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