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The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives. Frank is eighteen (sixteen in earlier versions), and Joe is seventeen (fifteen in earlier versions). They live in the city of Bayport on Barmet Bay [10] with their father, detective Fenton Hardy; their mother, Laura Hardy; [a] and their Aunt Gertrude.
Joe Hardy is 17 years old, with light blond hair, blue eyes, and a muscular frame. He resides in Bayport, along with his family. Their house is a three-story old Victorian on the corner of High and Elm Streets. His brother, Frank Hardy is his crime-fighting partner.
Hardy Boys, fictional brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, the teenage protagonists of a series of American juvenile mystery novels first published in 1927. Edward Stratemeyer originally conceived and plotted the series. The Hardy Boys were featured in various book series and in several television shows.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Janet Burns
- THE BOYS HAVE SOLVED AROUND 500 CASES. Not including graphic novels and planned releases, there have been well over 450 Hardy Boys titles published since their 1927 debut.
- THE BOOKS LET KIDS ENJOY ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. Around the beginning of the 20th century, Edward Stratemeyer, who The New York Times called “a prolific hack with a nose for business” and “the Henry Ford of children's fiction,” had a revelation that would change children’s literature forever.
- THEY ARE ALL GHOST-WRITTEN. In the decades that followed, the Stratemeyer Syndicate employed a changing stable of ghostwriters to churn out Hardy Boys titles (under the shared pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon) in as little as three weeks.
- STRATEMEYER NAILED THE FORMULA. This group of ghost writers enabled Stratemeyer to build his literary empire, and while he sometimes provided bare bones storylines for his writers to work from, his instructions to Hardy Boys writers, the Times notes, “were basic: end each chapter with a cliffhanger, and no murder, guns, or sex.”
Jan 23, 2023 · The Hardy Boys debuted in 1927, which is close to a century ago. The last time they were a force in popular culture was much more recent —and yet still 40 years ago. In 1977, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries showed up on ABC television.
- Jeff Somers
May 2, 2023 · My mom was 18 in that movie, which is the same age I was on The Hardy Boys, and it's like you're watching a different person. But I'm thrilled it's there for the people that love the show, and...
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The Hardy Boys or The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories is the original Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1927, the series ran for 58 volumes (plus 38 revisions and one spin off title) and lasted over 50 years before Grosset & Dunlap lost rights...
