September 2013 Update

14: Fossil Frenzy - 4/14 For Sale  
A missing dinosaur tooth makes for a massive investigation in this Hardy Brothers Secret Files Mystery. Frank and Joe are excited for their field trip to the Bayport Museum of Natural History with their science club. Not only will they get to see some awesome dinosaur skeletons on display, but they also get to go on their very own fossil dig on the museum grounds. At the dig, fellow classmate Tico uncovers an old dinosaur tooth— even though Tico’'s biggest competition in the club, Aisha, claims she found it first. And when Tico realizes his tooth is missing—, a tooth that turns out to be immensely valuable, —all signs point to Aisha. But is she really the culprit? It’s up to Frank and Joe to dig deep for the answers in a case that is bigger than they ever imagined!

 The Spotlite Book this month is "The House On The Cliff".

James Keeline turned me on to a fairly new Hardy Boys-like series, The Brixton Brothers.
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
Danger Goes Berserk
The Ghostwriter Secret
It Happened on a Train

August 2013 Update

Cover art for Secret Files #14: Fossil Frenzy
For Sale from Amazon.com

The Spotlite Book for August is "The Tower Treasure".
Discuss it at the Hardy Boys Fan Forum
Original Text Edition For Sale - Revised Text Edition For Sale

For those of you who haven't picked up any of the new Adventures series yet, there will be a Hardy Boys Adventures Box Set due out this November.
Secret of the Red Arrow; Mystery of the Phantom Heist; The Vanishing Game; Into Thin Air
For Sale from Amazon.com

July 2013 Update

Hardy Boys Adventures #5: Peril At Granite Peak has been announced for a 02/14 release.
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle
No story information available at this time.

Secret Files #14: Fossil Frenzy has been announced for a 4/14 release.

The Spotlite Book for July is #43: The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior.

June 2013 Update

Hardy Boys Adventures Box Set announced for November release.
For Sale from Amazon.com

The Spotlite Book for June is Volume 66 - "The Vanishing Thieves"
For Sale From Amazon.com

Flashlight editions volumes 59 thru 66 out of print.
It appears that G&D is no longer publishing these volumes.

May 2013 Update

Cover art for "Into Thin Air" released
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle
When the daughter of an amusement-park owner goes missing, it’s anything but fun and games in this Hardy Boys adventure—a new take on the classic series.
Daisy Rodriguez is missing. Just like that, gone without a trace. Her father, Hector Rodriguez—owner of Funspot, Bayport’s local amusement park—is frantic. He feels he’s to blame, since Funspot was recently the location of another disappearance. Could Daisy’s vanishing be somehow connected? Joe and Frank Hardy figured out the first Funspot mystery and are up to their necks in this one, too. Daisy doesn’t seem to have an enemy in the world; no one has a bad word to say about her. So who in Bayport wants this girl gone? Plot summary for "Balloon Blow-Up" announced. For Sale
The Green Crawler is one of the coolest superheroes around, and Frank and Joe are some of his biggest fans. And thanks to a contest, the Hardy boys get to be two of the handlers for the new Green Crawler balloon in the annual Fall Festival parade in Bayport!
But the day before the parade, disaster strikes: someone has ripped the Green Crawler balloon! The people in charge think Joe did it—and the Hardys need to clear his name fast. Was it Bayport bully Adam Ackerman, who was green with envy that the Hardys won the contest? Or could the culprits be loyal fans of Nutty the Squirrel, the cartoon character whom the Green Crawler replaced? And Mo Mantis, the Green Crawler’s archenemy, has a few tricks of his own…
Can the brothers figure out who tried to ground the Green Crawler? Or will Joe and Frank be watching the parade from the sidelines this year? The Spotlite Book this month is Volume 42, “The Viking Symbol Mystery”.

April 2013 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is Volume 39, "The Mystery of the Chinese Junk".

Amazon.com is now offering many of the Digests for their Kindle reader.

The Paperbacks section of the Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page has been newly updated with scans and plot summaries.

March 2013 Update

Cover art for Hardy Boys Adventures #3 "The Vanishing Game" released.
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle The Spotlite Book this month is Volume 59 “Night Of The Werewolf”.

February 2013 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is volume 38 The Mystery at Devil's Paw.

The new Hardy Boys Adventures series kicks off this month!

1: Secret of the Red Arrow
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle

2: Mystery of the Phantom Heist
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle

A new Hardy Boys Adventure has been announced for an October 2013 release:
4: Into Thin Air
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle

A new Secret Files has been announced for a December 2013 release: Balloon Blow-Up (#13)

January 2013 Update

The Spotlite Book for January is 53: "The Clue Of The Hissing Serpent"
 

Details released for Hardy Boys Adventures #3 The Vanishing Game
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle
A thrilling amusement park ride turns diabolically deadly in this Hardy Brothers adventure—a fresh approach to a classic series.
Joe and Frank Hardy are attending the season’s opening night at Funspot, a local amusement park that’s been declining for years, but that recently got new owners and a facelift. Their friend Daisy’s family has everything riding on Funspot’s success: If the revamped park is a failure, her family will be broke! At first, an exhilarating new attraction is a huge hit—but when one of the riders disappears into thin air, fun and games turns into spine-tingling danger. Will the Hardy Brothers find the missing rider and restore Funspot’s reputation, or is the amusement park doomed for disaster?

Review of the OT Cabin Island

The Mystery Of Cabin Island
#8 in the series - 1929 - Written by Leslie McFarlane
It's Christmas time in Bayport and the Boys and their chums are enjoying themselves iceboating out on Barmet Bay. They decide to explore lonely Cabin Island but are chased away by a surly stranger (Hanliegh). On the way back, they nearly come to ruin in an accident with another iceboat manned by Tad Carson and Ike Nash, a pair of obnoxious bullies.
Heading home from this near disaster, they find a message from Elroy Jefferson (who's car they recovered in The Shore Road Mystery). They head over to Jefferson's posh digs to collect a reward and obtain permission to camp out on Jefferson's Cabin Island retreat over the Christmas school holiday.
The Boys along with Chet and Biff head out to the island on their iceboats and have an unpleasant encounter with Ike and Tad, who are in cahoots with Hanliegh. They chase Hanliegh off the island and settle in for some rousing winter adventures.
Soon, they find their supplies stolen and head to the nearest town to get more from elderly storekeeper, Amos Grice, and, incidentally, discover from him that Jefferson had a valuable stamp collection stolen many years ago.
Back at the island, they have more adventures, discover a notebook dropped by Hanliegh indicating that the stolen stamps are hidden in the chimney of the cabin. They make a search and, surprise, find nothing.
Later, during a howling blizzard, they are forced to rescue Hanliegh who has come to grief in an iceboat accident. The storm increases in intensity, finally blowing down the chimney of the old cabin. Searching through the rubble, the Boys discover the stamp collection which miraculously has escaped any damage whatsoever despite being walled into a chimney over a huge fireplace for more than twenty years. They return the stamps to Jefferson and pick up yet another reward and Jefferson's offer to let them use his Cabin Island retreat any time they want.
Comments: This tale appears on almost everyone's list of favorite Hardy Boys stories and with good reason. The story is well written and paced and the prose is charmingly evocative and descriptive. One can almost picture oneself ice-boating and camping along with the Boys and their chums.
The mystery is, as usual, solved pretty much by dumb luck (aided by the infamous foul weather that seems to plague Bayport) but this doesn't take away from the excitement and mystery presented here.
The action is not too far removed from that which a teenage detective could accomplish. The villians are bad but not too bad and the mystery not too difficult to solve.
As in a few other of the earlier stories, the Boys arm themselves in this book (this time with rifles) and, although they threaten to use them, no shootings take place (except for a hapless fox who meets his demise in a totally extraneous sequence.)
Apparently the accident with the iceboat shook up Frank more than he cared to admit because the suggestion to go camping had to be made twice to him! When the suggestion was made the second time, Frank acts like he never heard of such a thing before - oh well!
I'm glad to note that, for once, the Boys' chums got a share of the reward but sadly there was no lip-smacking feast to cap off the Boys triumph in this case!
The revised version of this story by Andrew Svenson sticks close to the plot of the original and although the charm of McFarlane's prose is completely lost, it still ranks among the best of the revisions.
Rating: A+

December 2012 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is the revised text of "The Mystery of Cabin Island"

Hardy Boys TV Show Season 3

Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Season 3
The final season made to to DVD!
This title will be released on February 12, 2013

November 2012 Update

The November Spotlite Book is "The Secret of Pirate's Hill".

Secret Files #12 has been announced for an August 2013 release: Lights, Camera . . . Zombies!

Hardy Boys Adventures #3: The Vanishing Game has been announced for a June 2013 release.
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle
No details yet.

October 2012 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is Vol. 55, "The Witchmaster's Key".

No new Hardy Boys releases were announced.

September 2011 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is Vol. 28, "The Sign of the Crooked Arrow"

August 2012 Update

The Spotlite book for August is The Masked Monkey.

July 2012 Update

The Spotlite Book for July is volume 57, "The Firebird Rocket".

FS: Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers books
I'm getting rid of my own Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers books.
I have the first 28 volumes, most, if not all, of them are first printings.
I also have the first 11 graphic novels in hardcover and the first 18 graphic novels in paperback.
All are in excellent, like-new condition.
Prices:
UB Novels and graphic novel PBs are $4.75 each
Hardcover Graphic novels are $10.75 each
I also have 2 Gift Sets (vols 1-4 $15, vols 1-8 $30)
Postage: $3.50 for the 1st 3 books, 35¢ for each additional book.
Contact me if interested: fwdixon@yahoo.com
I'll sell the whole shebang for $375 with free postage!

June 2012 Update

THE HARDY BOYS ADVENTURES
A new series of books replacing the Undercover Brothers Series starting in 2013.
1: Secret of the Red Arrow - 2/13
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle
2: Masked Mayhem - 2/13
FOR SALE: Paperback - Hardcover - Kindle

SECRET FILES
10: A Rockin' Mystery - 10/12 For Sale
Frank and Joe are thrilled to learn that the popular band, Crush, is scheduled to perform in Bayport’s huge Battle of the Bands—and even more excited when they find out that their friend’s brother, Dylan, is the bass guitarist. But on the day of the performance, Dylan’s prized guitar has gone missing!
Could someone from a rival band have taken it in hopes of gaining an advantage? Or could the culprit be someone closer to home? It’s up to Frank and Joe to investigate this rocking mystery—or else Crush might be crushed in the competition!
11: Robot Rumble - 02/13 For Sale
No information yet.

The Spotlite Book for June is Volume 26 "The Phantom Freighter".

Paul Mular reports that the graphic novels are going out of print.

May 2012 Update

The May Spotlite Book is Volume 34, "The Hooded Hawk Mystery"
As I have posted earlier, I'm getting rid of all my foreign Hardy Boys editions on My Sales Page
Otherwise no news this month.
Hopefully S&S will be announcing the new Hardy Boys series that is to replace The Undercover Brothers.

April 2012 Update

The April Spotlite Book is volume 54, "The Mysterious Caravan".

As I have posted earlier, I'm getting rid of all my foreign Hardy Boys editions on My Sales Page

Otherwise no news this month :(

March 2012 Update

This month's Spotlite Book is Volume 44 "The Haunted Fort"

Secret Files #10 A Rockin' Mystery has been announced for an October 2012 release.
No further information available at this time

As I have posted earlier, I'm getting rid of all my foreign Hardy Boys editions on My Sales Page

My Sales Page Is Back

After a long absence I'm starting to sell Hardy Boys and other books & collectibles.
Right now there are only a few books listed but I'll be posting more on the page over the next week or two.
Check out My Sales Page!

February 2012 Update

The Spotlite Book this month is Volume 37, "The Ghost At Skeleton Rock".

Bob Nelson reports the the first volume in the new Hardy Boys Adventures, "Secret of the Red Arrow", will be released in January of 2013.
The current Undercover Brothers series has been discontinued.

NEWS FLASH: This just in from Paul Mular...
Hardy Boys New titles in HARDBACK for 2013!
      Simon & Schuster has just publicly announced that the new Hardy Boys Adventures will be available in BOTH Paperback $5.99 and HARDBACK $15.99 editions!
      The announced release date of January 2nd 2013 will now include "breeder sets", that is the first two books in the series. The title of the second book has not been publicly announced.
      The third book in The Hardy Boys is scheduled for October 2013.

January 2012 Update

Happy New Year Sleuths!

Nancy Drew-Hardy Boys Super Mystery #6 Stage Fright has been announced for a July 2012 release and can be pre-ordered now from Amazon.com.

This month's Spotlite Book is "The Secret Panel"

December 2011 Update

Secret Files # 9: The Great Coaster Caper has been announced for an August 2012 release: Pre-Order from Amazon.com
Synopsis not yet available.

Cover art for Secret Files #8: Sports Sabotage released: Pre-Order from Amazon.com - Available April 2012.
It’s time for Field Day at Bayport Elementary and all the kids are excited! Whatever grade wins gets a pizza party, and the person with the highest personal score also gets a special prize. But when the field equipment is sabotaged the day before the events are supposed to start, it looks like Field Day might not happen after all—unless someone can find out who is behind the mess of ruined rackets, tangled jump ropes, and flattened balloons. Can Frank and Joe crack the case and save Field Day?


This month's Spotlite Book is "The Arctic Patrol Mystery".

Best wishes to all sleuths for the holidays!