The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers is a detective fiction series of books published by Aladdin Paperbacks (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), which replaced The Hardy Boys Digest paperbacks in early 2005. [1] All the books in the series have been written under the pen name of Franklin W. Dixon.
The Undercover Brothers is about two teenage brother detectives, Frank and Joe Hardy, who are the sons of world-famous PI Fenton Hardy. Although there are many similarities in this series to the previous Hardy Boys series, there are also many changes, for example:
| # | Title | Released |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Extreme Danger | April 1, 2005 |
| 2 | Running on Fumes | |
| 3 | Boardwalk Bust | |
| 4 | Thrill Ride | |
| 5 | Rocky Road | July 1, 2005 |
| 6 | Burned | October 1, 2005 |
| 7 | Operation: Survival | December 1, 2005 |
| 8 | Top Ten Ways to Die | February 1, 2006 |
| 9 | Martial Law | April 1, 2006 |
| 10 | Blown Away | June 1, 2006 |
| 11 | Hurricane Joe | August 1, 2006 |
| 12 | Trouble in Paradise | October 1, 2006 |
| 13 | The Mummy's Curse | November 28, 2006 |
| 14 | Hazed | February 6, 2007 |
| 15 | Death and Diamonds | April 10, 2007 |
| 16 | Bayport Buccaneers | June 5, 2007 |
| 17 | Murder at the Mall | July 24, 2007 |
| 18 | Pushed | September 25, 2007 |
| 19 | Foul Play | November 27, 2007 |
| 20 | Feeding Frenzy | January 8, 2008 |
| 21 | Comic Con Artist | March 25, 2008 |
| # | Title | Released | Trilogy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Deprivation House | May 20, 2008 | The Murder House Trilogy |
| 23 | House Arrest | July 8, 2008 | |
| 24 | Murder House | September 30, 2008 | |
| 25 | Double Trouble | November 25, 2008 | Double Danger Trilogy |
| 26 | Double Down | December 23, 2008 | |
| 27 | Double Deception | March 10, 2009 | |
| 28 | Galaxy X | May 19, 2009 | Galaxy X Trilogy |
| 29 | X-plosion | July 21, 2009 | |
| 30 | The X-Factor | September 8, 2009 | |
| 31 | Killer Mission | November 10, 2009 | Killer Mystery Trilogy |
| 32 | Private Killer | January 5, 2010 | |
| 33 | Killer Connections | March 9, 2010 | |
| 34 | The Children of the Lost | May 4, 2010 | Identity Mystery Trilogy |
| 35 | Lost Brother | October 12, 2010 | |
| 36 | Forever Lost | January 4, 2011 | |
| 37 | Movie Menace | May 10, 2011 | The Deathstalker Trilogy |
| 38 | Movie Mission | September 13, 2011 | |
| 39 | Movie Mayhem | January 3, 2012 | |
| # | Title | Released |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wanted | June 1, 2006 |
| 2 | Kidnapped at the Casino | May 8, 2007 |
| 3 | The Haunted | August 5, 2008 |
The Hardy Boys Secret Files is a series begun in 2010 by the publisher Simon & Schuster under their Aladdin imprint. It features the Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, as grade-school detectives. Three new titles are published yearly as paperback books and eBooks. This series ended in 2015 and was replaced by the Hardy Boys Clue Book series.
| # | Title | Pub. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trouble at the Arcade | April 27, 2010 |
| 2 | The Missing Mitt | |
| 3 | Mystery Map | August 17, 2010 |
| 4 | Hopping Mad | September 14, 2010 |
| 5 | A Monster of a Mystery | April 5, 2011 |
| 6 | The Bicycle Thief | August 9, 2011 |
| 7 | The Disappearing Dog | October 18, 2011 |
| 8 | Sports Sabotage | April 3, 2012 |
| 9 | The Great Coaster Caper | August 7, 2012 |
| 10 | A Rockin' Mystery | October 16, 2012 |
| 11 | Robot Rumble | April 2, 2013 |
| 12 | Lights, Camera ... Zombies! | August 6, 2013 |
| 13 | Balloon Blow-Up | December 3, 2013 |
| 14 | Fossil Frenzy | April 29, 2014 |
| 15 | Ship of Secrets | August 5, 2014 |
| 16 | Camping Chaos | December 2, 2014 |
| 17 | The Great Escape | April 21, 2015 |
| 18 | Medieval Upheaval | August 4, 2015 |
| 19 | The Race Is On | December 1, 2015 |
A crossover spin-off series with the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series. The stories are told in the first person, alternating chapters between Frank's or Joe's and Nancy's perspective. The first title in the series acts as an introduction between the characters. This series published one title per year until the end of the Girl Detective and Undercover Brothers series in 2012.
| # | Title | Released |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terror on Tour | June 5, 2007 |
| 2 | Danger Overseas | May 6, 2008 |
| 3 | Club Dread | May 5, 2009 |
| 4 | Gold Medal Murder | July 6, 2010 |
| 5 | Bonfire Masquerade | July 12, 2011 |
| 6 | Stage Fright | July 10, 2012 |
In the spring of 2005, NBM launched its new imprint, Papercutz, with the publication of two three-part comic book series; Nancy Drew (The Demon of River Heights) and The Hardy Boys (The Ocean of Osyria). [3] After the completion of both series, The Demon of River Heights series and The Ocean of Osyria series were both collected into 92 pages graphic novels, becoming the first titles in the Nancy Drew graphic novel series and the Hardy Boys graphic novel series respectively.
All other titles in both series have been made in graphic novel format only and are published every three months.
When Chet Morton's Internet account is hacked into and used to bid on a stolen artifact, the Ocean of Osyria, best friends Frank and Joe Hardy, with girlfriends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, head to Osyria, the location of the auction, to clear Chet's name.
The brothers investigate a very strange mystery about a popular, wealthy teenage girl's stolen identity.
The brothers and a few foreign shoppers are locked up in Bayport's new shopping mall deliberately by a mysterious man who sabotaged the mall with many traps. The 'prisoners' must struggle to survive together, find a way to escape, and find and stop the man with a few ATAC gadgets the brothers have before it is too late.
The brothers must figure out who is trying to kill the competition at a skateboard tournament.
The boys head to a drama competition for high school students to snoop out a sabotager wanting to win the tournament.
The Hardy Boys have to rescue an agent's son or they will be dead!
The brothers head to a stunt competition to work with Lindsay Rider... as backup!
When Haley's Internet friends start disappearing in real life, the boys decide to help out.
Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Created by the publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series, the character first appeared in 1930 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, which lasted until 2003 and consisted of 175 novels.
The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The series revolves around teenagers who are amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterparts. The characters were created by American writer Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of book packaging firm Stratemeyer Syndicate. The books were written by several ghostwriters, most notably Leslie McFarlane, under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.
Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Dixon was also the writer attributed for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series, published by Grosset & Dunlap.
The House On The Cliff is the second book in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 72nd on the Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List in the United States with 1,712,433 copies sold as of 2001. This book is one of the "Original 10" Hardy Boys books and is an excellent example of the writing style used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate's writers. This style influenced many other "youth adventure series" books that the Stratemeyer Syndicate also published, including the Nancy Drew series, the Tom Swift adventure series, the Bobbsey Twins and other lesser known series. All of them used a unique writing style that made them very recognizable as Stratemeyer product.
The Secret of Skull Mountain is Volume 27 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Super Mystery is a 36-volume series of crossover paperbacks, pairing The Hardy Boys with Nancy Drew. Earlier crossovers include a 1970s TV series, the novelization of one of the TV episodes, two SuperSleuths books, Campfire Stories, and the Be-A-Detective series.
Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon is the 13th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. There are two levels of gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. The game is loosely based on a book entitled Mystery Train.
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective is a 2004–2012 book series which replaced the long-running Nancy Drew mystery series. This new series is written in first person narration, from Nancy's point of view, and features updated versions of the main Nancy Drew characters. New secondary characters are introduced to populate River Heights and appear over multiple books, adding a framework to Nancy's world.
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is an American television mystery series based on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew juvenile novels. The series, which ran from January 30, 1977, to January 14, 1979, was produced by Glen A. Larson from Universal Television for ABC. Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy starred as amateur detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, while Pamela Sue Martin starred as amateur sleuth Nancy Drew.
Aladdin Paperbacks is one of several children's-book imprints owned by Simon & Schuster. It was established by Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books where she was the founding director of the children's department (1961). Atheneum merged with or was acquired by Scribner's in 1978, then Macmillan in 1984, before the acquisition by Simon & Schuster in 1994.
The Murder House Trilogy is a three-part detective fiction mini-series in The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers, published by Aladdin Paperbacks. The first book in the trilogy, Deprivation House, was published on May 20, 2008, with books #2 House Arrest and #3 Murder House published on July and September respectively.
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is the long-running "main" series of the Nancy Drew franchise, which was published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. There are 175 novels — plus 34 revised stories — that were published between 1930 and 2003 under the banner; Grosset & Dunlap published the first 56, and 34 revised stories, while Simon & Schuster published the series beginning with volume 57.
Hyde & Shriek is a Hardy Boys graphic novel written by Scott Lobdell and illustrated by Sidney Lima and Paulo Henrique. The sixth in the Undercover Brothers graphic novel series, it was published by Papercutz in 2006.
Papercutz Graphic Novels is an American publisher of family-friendly comic books and graphic novels, mostly based on licensed properties such as Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Lego Ninjago. Papercutz has also published new volumes of the Golden Age-era comics series Classics Illustrated and Tales from the Crypt. In recent years they have begun publishing English translations of European all-ages comics, including The Smurfs and Asterix. They publish several titles through their imprint Super Genius.
George Edward Stanley was a teacher at Cameron University and author of short stories for middle grade kids under the pseudonym M. T. Coffin.
Passport to Danger is a Hardy Boys Mystery Stories novel. It is the 179th book in the series and was first published in 2003 by Aladdin Paperbacks.
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