The one-hour show was broken into four segments with this sort of serial taking up one of these minute segments The Spin and Marty serials were also used for this purpose. Following in their father's footsteps the two boys are looking for a pirate's treasure supposedly hidden in the Applegate Mansion in their neighborhood. The series has a cool theme song see below. Despite the song there are no pieces of eight. They were one ounce Spanish silver coins, worth 8 reales, or half of a gold dubloon. Frank and Joe are assisted by Joe's girlfriend Iola Carole Ann Campbell and hindered by their Aunt Gertrude who is looking after them while their father is out of town.
Their namesake books, which were in black and white by Franklin W. Dixon after that debuted infeature suspenseful titles such as What Happened at Midnight, Footprints Under the Window, after that The Haunted Fort, which are brought to life with alive cover art and dramatic frontispieces. Within the slight volumes themselves, the young detectives, who are often joined by their friends, solve mysteries in the fantastic town of Bayport. As a 7-year-old, I felt the books extended an invitation, a promise: You, too, can save the day. But beyond the amusement exploits, the enduring appeal of the Hardy Boys series, after that the reason it has sold more than 70 million copies, stem from its broad relatability. That is, the books abide seriously the fact that budding up often means having ceaseless curiosity, challenging authority, and wrestling with questions of good against evil.
Although here are a few. The juvenile mystery book as we know it—a point of access for generations of readers who would grow up to appreciate as diverse a selection of investigators and troubleshooters as Jack Reacher and Irene Kelly after that Tess Monaghan and Easy Rawlins—was about to be born. Brothers Frank 16 years old all the rage the earliest books and Joe 15 Hardy lived in Bayport, a fictional burg within compelling distance of New York Capital that had more smugglers, spies, saboteurs, thieves and mysterious after that exotic strangers per capita than any city in the earth. Sometimes they assisted their clandestine detective father, Fenton Hardy, arrange tough cases. Like boys all over the years, I devoured the books. The library at my small rural elementary school—how small? My glass had some students—remained open during the summer accordingly we could check out books. I took home eight Enduring Boys books every week, the limit of books we could check out.
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