Here comes another free Hardy Boys book! Hardy and Drew Mysteries Special Edition of The Hardy Boys #5 Hunting for Hidden Gold! 😀 Enjoy! 😀
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That’s right – the next book, volume 4, in The Hardy Boys series is now available free here on Hardy and Drew Mysteries for your reading enjoyment! 😎 I just published the original special edition public domain book —> The Missing Chums
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Hardy Boys Adventures #25 Smuggler’s Legacy has an intriguing mix of history and mystery set in NYC (New York City) during a Bayport High field trip with cool brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. Chet is also there, which is great.
We enjoyed telling our super cool mom about the mystery – that was fun! She also found it intriguing. 😎 Love that especially.
Cool case, enjoyed solving it and catching clues with my Hardy Boys/Nancy book reading sibling – love that especially. Love the brothers having fun, working together. Love exploring the tunnel and the speakeasy, trying to figure out the mystery from the 1920s. Love the telephone booth, the Tiffany glass, the code to get in, checking it out, finding the previously hidden area off of the tunnel, rediscovered courtesy of Frank’s elbow – Joe describing his brother slipping on the wet floor of the tunnel like he hit a cartoon banana peel was well done.
The brothers do a good job asking questions and sticking with it. They also knew there was something up with the car disappearing and the gangsters not using their ammo they had for the very purpose of a raid. It defied logic. Good Hardy brothers detectives.
Cool cover art. 😎 
Some really important and useful ways of being smart in this book. There are good things and bad things about technology and people who are knowledgeable on the subject, like Frank and Joe Hardy, understand the importance of not relying too much or only on tech. To avoid totalitarianism, etc., options and choices are essential for freedom. That’s especially easy to see in recent years with banks and other financial institutions freezing accounts of people they don’t like or don’t agree with. Since Frank and Joe take on criminals who are greedy and power hungry, they are potential targets for a situation where corrupt and evil individuals or organizations the Hardy brothers are trying to stop, can cut off the means of buying, traveling, etc., digitally. Digital currency, digital passports all come with the easy built in way for someone other than you to control you. Physical money is important, then innocent people, especially if low on finances, won’t be canceled or cut off. So that’s why we like that Frank had a twenty dollar bill in his pocket. He also had paper about the area. Charlene had a notebook – paper! Plus, it’s better for the eyes not to look at screens all the time and healthier for the whole body not to be around the dangerous EMFs (electromagnetic field) being released by devices.
So happy the brothers got to go back to the museum to investigate more instead of having to go to the Met! The exhibits, “art deco”, at the Met is to be avoided, trust me! You really don’t want to go there. :puke:
Frank knows what a third rail in a subway is, Charlene wouldn’t have to tell him. 🙄 🙄
The brothers timing it just right at the subway turnstiles was fun and written well as they ditched a tail.
Cool historical trail of clues they followed throughout the mystery.
The exciting and action filled finale was really good. My sib and I enjoyed seeing we had correctly figured out the mystery and who was bad in the book. The brothers working together, solving the case, and stopping the bad is always great.
This adventure is very good except few things. This book loses one star because the author references the worst book in the Adventures series, Mayhem Express, and takes us temporarily out of Smuggler’s Legacy, causing disgust at having to think about the non-Hardy-Boys-book-which-is-not-worth-reading. Didn’t like Mona the assistant curator of the Prohibition Museum – confusing character.
I will assume when any of the good guys and gals, it was to God, a prayer for help and also exclamations of happiness, not profanity.
One chapter title is “Light at the End of the Tunnel”. Made me think about how there really is Light.
Cool memory of Frank’s as they were getting to safety after escaping the tunnels with the curator and climbing up the rocks around the East River Park. “Climbing like this reminded me of hiking and exploring around the lake when my family went on vacation one summer. Joe and I spent hours climbing on slick rocks and jumping off them into the water.” Frank is so right when he said ~ “Except right now, I really, really did not want to end up in the water.” Nope, he sure didn’t. 😮
True-to-life of how much destruction, pain, and heartache propagated by the evil “power hungry political type”.
It’s great that the mystery from the 1920s as well as the newest one was solved and those falsely accused were finally cleared. Very satisfying with the two mysteries.
Hardy Boys Adventures #25 Smuggler’s Legacy has well done mysteries that are interesting and intriguing with fun investigating by two cool brothers. So, is it worth the read? Yep, sure is! 😎
Now on Hardy and Drew Mysteries blog, for your reading enjoyment, The Hardy Boys #3 The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon original special edition! 😎 Originally published in 1927 and is now public domain (freedom!), The Secret of the Old Mill is the third Hardy Boys book. The brothers are sixteen (Frank) and fifteen (Joe) – in the revised editions they are eighteen and seventeen respectively.
I’ve posted the whole book on the blog because once accessed it can be read on any device. I have it set up now so that when you subscribe to this blog, or if you’re already subscribed, you receive an automatic email from this wordpress blog and in it is the numerical code needed to access the private page here to read for free The Hardy Boys #3 The Secret of the Old Mill. Just add ** at the end of the password for this volume. 🙂
Check out the different cover art in this blog post for The Secret of the Old Mill. If you have any other ones, please share – thank you very much! 😎
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Just posted today on Hardy and Drew Mysteries blog, The Hardy Boys #2 The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon original special edition! For free. 😎 Originally published in 1927 and this year now becoming public domain (freedom!), The House on the Cliff is the second Hardy Boys book. The brothers are sixteen (Frank) and fifteen (Joe) and in the revised editions they are eighteen and seventeen respectively.
I’d decided, like with The Tower Treasure, to post the whole book on the blog, because, once accessed it can be read on any device. I have it set up now so that when you subscribe to this blog, or if you’re already subscribed, you receive an automatic email from this wordpress blog and in it is the numerical code needed to access the private page here to read for free The Hardy Boys #2 The House on the Cliff. Just add an * at the end of the password for this volume. 🙂
Below you’ll find some of the various cover art for The House on the Cliff. Please share any you have – thank you very much! 😎 It’s fun seeing the different cover art. 😎
Just follow/subscribe to my blog (it’s always free!) – hit the follow/subscribe button on the left side of the Hardy and Drew Mysteries main page, enter your email address (never publically displayed) to receive the email with the numerical 😉 code/password/key then come back to this post and click this link to unlock the front door of The House on the Cliff then enter the code/password/key and you’re good to go. 🙂 Thanks! 🙂 For everyone who has already subscribed and entered the password for The Tower Treasure, just add an * at the end of it for The House on the Cliff. 🙂
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This is a fun, cool brother mystery with humor and action! It has a definite Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers (HBUB) feel to it (the good volumes in that particular series) and my Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew book reading sib agrees. I know there are a number of my friends who like the good HBUB books, so I wanted to let you know that! 😎
Lily, I know you’re not especially fond of this series or the HBUBs, but this was a fun one AND I remember you telling me before how essential landline phones can be….Well, this book also had about the important need for landline phones! 😎
Fun, entertaining prologue from Joe with the whole fam eating the most recent dish made by Aunt Trudy. Although it sounded very unappetizing to me, as was her contest entry, the characters in the book thought it tasty. They were the ones eating it, so…. 😛 I like the appropriate description regarding the tv celebrity chef talking – “blathering”.
The food in the first chapter was mucho better – zucchini bread. Yummy yum!
Like Frank and Joe, I’m also soooo sick of Katy Perry’s singing. One of her songs was playing when they left their car and then got back in. Good idea to turn the radio off, as they did. Or if that failed, sell the car and get a different one. 😛 Yep, it’d be worth it. Or hope someone steals the radio. 😎 😆 Ok, turning it off totally works, too. 😆 😆
Cool saying Joe riding shotgun. 😎
Joe and Frank are nice nephews, encouraging Aunt Trudy. We like that very much.
Good descriptions getting to the pier and general store. My sib and I were reading this while dinner was cooking…and we were hungry, but still, most of the food in the book…yuck. 😛
Plenty of humorous parts that help make this one such an enjoyable read.
There was a little error – it was Frank’s phone, but then in the next chapter it was incorrectly referred to as Joe’s then it was fixed after that.
So glad Joe and Frank are for the islanders and the nature reserve instead of the destructive resort. That is a superimportant reason we like this mystery.
Fun quotes ~
“Are you sure you cooked it right?” good guy asking the pompous celebrity chef. Lolololol! 😆
Frank tells Joe, who wants to know what the contraption was ~ “It’s a dumbwaiter, dumbbrother.” 😆 Good-natured kidding. 😆
One of my favorite parts in the book – and also, my reading buddy sib’s – is Joe being him and Frank! You have to read it! 😎 😆 😎 Fun with the brothers!
We really enjoyed the book ~ the whole Hardy fam at beginning, great brother team, the humor, adventure, action, intense, twists, literal cliffhanger, and the islanders win. My HBND book reading buddy sib had it figured out early on, which is very impressive. Several suspects, but picked up on the right clues. Love reading together.
Most of the book is great, except for ~ one use of an abbreviation that is sometimes used as profanity – I’ll assume it wasn’t meant as profanity in the book. Also, two uses of the word “freaking”. My sib has never liked that word – I’m not crazy about it either, but I can ignore it more – it’s just so unnecessary to use it. One lie (although humorous) in order to gain a clue – could have been done without the lie to obtain a suspect’s phone. A silly chapter title. This next thing just isn’t accurate and made me laugh…the author had Trudy squeal…Aunt Trudy doesn’t squeal. Like ever. Laughing at the thought of it. 😆 Spoiler – HIGHLIGHT TO SEE SPOILER I would have had the culprit be someone else. The character wouldn’t have been so stupidly drastic considering the reasons behind the deadly attempts. End of Spoiler.
The action is really good in the mystery. Plenty of excitement going on with the storm! Cool cover art! 😎
So, do I recommend Hardy Boys Adventures #22 Trouble Island? Yes! Do I want to read again? Yes! 😎 It has an intriguing mystery, cool brother team, family, helping people, humor, danger, sleuthing and cheering for the people who live there over those who would mess up nature for fake. Always go for the real instead of fake.
Now, to wrap up this review, I have to ask one thing, as Joe liked to say in this mystery – amirite? 😉 😎 😀
Yes, you read that right. Right here at Hardy and Drew Mysteries, the original public domain, special edition even, The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon….free. 😎 Originally published in 1927 and entering public domain this year (freedom!), The Tower Treasure is the first Hardy Boys book. The brothers are sixteen (Frank) and fifteen (Joe) and in the revised editions they are eighteen and seventeen respectively.
All it takes to read your free (yep, had to say it again) Hardy Boys book is to subscribe to my Hardy and Drew Mysteries blog. It’s that easy. I wanted to give everyone this gift for my bday. 🙂 I always love getting Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books for my birthday and I received some this year, too. ❤ ❤ ❤ Happy! ❤ My HBND book reading buddy sib gave me a favorite that I’m really excited about. ❤
I’d been going to have the book available to download in pdf format, but I believe I’ll post the whole book on the blog, because, once accessed it can be read on any device. I have it set up now so that when you subscribe to this blog, or if you’re already subscribed, you receive an automatic email from this wordpress blog and in it is the numerical code needed to access the private page here to read for free The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure. I thought that’d be fun! 🙂
I’d appreciate hearing from everyone. 🙂 Also, for fun, here are the various covers I’ve seen online of The Tower Treasure. If you have another one, please post it – thank you very much! 😎
Let me know what you think – either in the comment section after this post or by feedback on the contact form available below The Tower Treasure cover art. Just follow/subscribe to my blog (it’s free!) – just hit that follow/subscribe button on the left side of the Hardy and Drew Mysteries main page, enter your email address (never publically displayed) to receive the email with the numerical 😉 code/password/key then come back to this post and click this link to unlock The Tower Treasure, enter the code/password/key and you’re good to go. 🙂 Thanks! 🙂
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Publisher’s Synopsis ~
A. JOE STOLE THE TEST.
B. TONY STOLE THE TEST.
C. NONE OF THE ABOVE.A new statewide test has all the students at Bayport High on edge. Then Joe and his friend Tony find one of the tests in Tony’s bookbag. Joe knows Tony didn’t steal it, but the assistant principal isn’t so understanding: he suspends them both!
Joe talks to the truck driver who delivered the tests, as well as the owner of a tutoring service who promises amazing improvements in test scores. Frank checks out who could have put the test in Tony’s bag—a bag just like the one belonging to a star of the hockey team. Joe and Tony are still in the penalty box, but the Hardys are determined to ace this case!
That multiple choice test is supereasy, as any Hardy Boys book reader knows the answer is C. NONE OF THE ABOVE. 😎 If only all tests were this easy…..and anyone not getting this one right must not have EVER read a Hardy Boys book!
I love so much about this Hardy Boys book! Reading it with my Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew book reading buddy sib is the best part and the book itself is an excellent HB book! Great feel to it. Real. Both my sib and I find it so refreshing to read the real Frank and Joe. As soon as we started reading it, which begins with a fun skating scene, Joe just glancing up from tying his ice skates, we were both “yeah that’s Joe.” My sib said that first and we were both thinking – and saying – how it is so much better.
Love the skating, nice romantic with Joe and Iola as well as with Frank and Callie. ❤ Fun with all of the friends who were there enjoying the skating party at the frozen Bayport pond. Love the way Joe stood up for Callie against that jerk who ran into her. Frank helped her up like the great boyfriend he is and Joe demanded an apology for Callie from the jerk.
Great brothers and great Bayport pals teamwork in solving this mystery. The sleuthing and following clues is excellent except for unnecessary lies author had in there in order to find out info. Frank and Joe are smart enough to be able to investigate and search for clues without lying.
That said, most all of the sleuthing and putting the clues/info together is very well done. Makes sense. Not convoluted. Good flow to the mystery. That is very much appreciated to a reader! Well-woven suspense, also. 😎
Love all of the real Hardy Boys book characters help in the mystery – as mentioned already, Joe’s girlfriend Iola Morton, Frank’s girlfriend, Callie Shaw, the rest of the Hardy family, Fenton, Laura, Aunt Gertrude, Hardy friends Chet Morton, Phil Cohen, Biff Hooper, and, of course, Tony Prito. Liz Webling is there to show how annoying a pushy media type uninterested in facts can be.
The author accurately wrote the Hardy family and friends’ support of Joe’s innocence. I love how he stuck to his guns and didn’t give in to the bullying and pressure from the unjust school faculty who wanted Joe and Tony to lie and say they stole the test. Tony’s parents would definitely want him to stick to his guns, too, and not give in – they would fully back and support him as well. That point should have been made and clearly instead of the incorrect depiction. Plus, Tony would know he had his mom and dad’s support.
The assistant principal should have been fired for his actions and the wimpy principal who lets him get away with that.
This book does realistically show the bullying attitude of some teachers, principals, and assistants. There are good teachers who actually care about their students and help, rather than bully and mock. Then there are the obnoxious, arrogant, immoral teachers who don’t want their students to think for themselves, but to robotically mimic the current thing being pushed. I pray that in real life more teachers stand up for their students rather than supporting evil plans. This has been something I’ve noticed since I was little.
There are a lot of favorite scenes in the mystery. I’m not positive I could pick my number one fave. 😎 The Hardys not giving in, nor giving up, knowing they were right, keeping with it despite the push from those in power at school to overlook the truth and just cave. That integrity of the Hardys really resonates with me. There are many brave people doing that today. It does take courage and true bravery to stand up and do/say the right thing.
Great. Action. Love. It. So important for an exciting mystery to have well-written action scenes and The Test Case most definitely does. Joe’s driving skills and Frank’s athletic abilities are all superbly shown. The action is exciting and realistically described. There’s definitely danger involved that has you reading and cheering them on to see them get through it victoriously.
Love the excellent teamwork!!! 😎
Do I recommend The Test Case for Hardy Boys readers? Oh yes, definitely!! 😎 Do I want to read this real Hardy Boys book again even though I’ve now read it twice? Yes! 😀 Enjoy!
Looking for a mystery on a cruise? A Nancy Drew mystery on a cruise? A Nancy Drew mystery on a cruise with a mysterious trunk? Then you’ll want to read Nancy Drew #17 Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk! Check out the cover art and book synopsis here —> Nancy Drew Books ~ Titles, Covers, and More
I’ve seen several different cool covers online and in bookstores/used bookstores for this one. Do you have a fave cover from your country? Please let me know in the comments.
Have you read this Nancy Drew mystery? If so, whatcha think of it?
Nancy Drew #17 Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk is available in hardback as well as ebook for various devices in libraries and bookstores. 🙂
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What a great question, right? 😀 And the answer for many mystery readers is a wholehearted Hardy response of YES, PLEASE! Right? 😎 You’ll be able to download the first three original public domain books in The Hardy Boys series #1 The Tower Treasure, #2 The House on the Cliff, and #3 The Secret of the Old Mill here on the Hardy and Drew Mysteries blog after two things are accomplished. First, I need to know what ebook formats everyone would like ~ pdf, epub, etc.. Then, secondly, once I find out that important info, I plan to get those formats ready and post them on here for Hardy readers to download! Whatcha think? 😎 I’ll likely wait until I’ve gotten a number of replies on here from various readers.
Praying for everyone! Stay real, stay in prayer, stay free, stay brave! 😎
As mentioned in my previous post, the first three original books of The Hardy Boys series are now in public domain!
The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure 
The Hardy Boys #2 The House on the Cliff
The Hardy Boys #3 The Secret of the Old Mill
This is great news, of course, but also, I want to warn everyone that there are some people making money on what should be free books. I just want to remind readers to beware of these ebooks that, even if they are only a dollar or three, they’re still books that are actually available, legally, for free. I plan to have them, yes, you guessed it, for free, on here soon. I’ll be adding another post hopefully at the beginning of next week to find out what formats everyone would like these three free public domain original Hardy Boys books to be available in. 🙂
Here are a few things to always remember that apply in so many more ways than public domain books ~ Know the truth! Know your rights! Read the fine print! Hold out for the real!
Praying for all in any and all situations you each are in. ❤ Remember, never let your heart faint in anything – trust God and follow Him – God wins! ❤
In 1927, the Hardy Boys mysteries were started by Edward Stratemeyer. Readers from that time on have been able to sleuth along with brothers Joe and Frank to solve exciting and intriguing mysteries. The books have been published in many languages worldwide, including Braille. They’ve also been revised (blue hardbacks in the US) which are the editions I prefer.
The nom de plume, pseudonym, pen name, Franklin W. Dixon, has been used since 1927 by a myriad of writers. Some have written the characters correctly and some have not. Good character, morals, and ethics are timeless, unchanging. Integrity, bravery, decency, courage, etc., are always the way. I love to read the cool mysteries and great brother teamwork right now in the 21st century. 1927 and this century combine in my Hardy Boys fanfic Hardys Inn Danger with an unique twist you might enjoy reading. 🙂
In 1927, these three books were published by Grosset & Dunlap from outlines written by Edward Stratemeyer and the rest of the text written by Canadian Leslie McFarlane ~
The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure
The Hardy Boys #2 The House on the Cliff
The Hardy Boys #3 The Secret of the Old Mill
Readers met the Hardy family for the first time ~ Fenton and Laura Hardy, father and mother of brothers Frank and Joe. Fenton’s sister, and the Hardy brothers’ aunt, Gertrude Hardy, their friends Chet Morton, Phil Cohen, Biff Hooper, Perry ‘Slim’ Robinson, Jerry Gilroy, along with Frank’s girlfriend Callie Shaw and Joe’s girlfriend, Iola Morton, who is Chet’s sister. Plus, readers were able to explore Bayport, including the cliffs, caves, an old mill and other fun places, going by way of Shore Road or maybe along the shores of Barmet Bay.
Now for the 2023 exciting news – the original texts of these titles will no longer be under copyright and will be in public domain. The Hardy Boys are freed! No one has a monopoly on The Hardys. These three originals will be available for free. Although some people take books in the public domain and sell them, an informed reader knows they are freely available and doesn’t need to pay for something that is free. Knowledge is power.
Perhaps my blog readers will be able to download a copy of the original text The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure and #3 The Secret of the Old Mill right here. 😉 Before putting #2 The House on the Cliff original text on here I need to take out an error that must have slipped by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
I hope to soon be adding to the Hardy Boys book character list of essential details.
Every day is full of blessings from the Creator. Praying for everyone in 2023 and beyond.
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