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Welcome to The Hardy Boys Online.
For 23 years, this website has been a resource for fans of the Hardy Boys books. The site is divided into two major sections:
- Series info, where you can find booklists for each series, as well as technical information about cover art, revisions, endsheets, ghostwriters, etc.
- Literary info, where you can delve into the world of the Hardy Boys and read about characters, settings, cases, sleuthing techniques, themes, continuity, style, and other related topics.
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Featured book: Danger on Vampire Trail (Volume #50 in the Canon, published 1971) The boys and their friends go camping in the Rockies and track down a credit-card forgery ring. |
RECENT UPDATES
11/Feb/2022 | Kirby Rasch has contributed a fantastically detailed map of Bayport and writeup about Bayport geography. |
2/Sept/2020 | Thanks to a guest contributor, a new page about the Hardy home has been added. |
30/Aug/2020 | The list of reference books and articles has been updated. |
3/July/2019 | If Simon & Schuster had won the rights to publish volumes 1-58 back in 1979, what would the books have looked like? Here's a gallery of hypothetical covers for Canon volumes 1-58 using the arch layout that appeared on the early Digests. |
1/July/2019 | Just for fun, check out a gallery of modified Tower Treasure covers illustrating all of the different cover formats that were used between 1946 and 1979. |
2016 | Check out Vince Hase's fantastic Hardy Boys/Star Trek mashup: trekmysteries.net |