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The Twisted Claw

The Twisted Claw

Children's BooksJuvenile
Pages
192
Published
1974
Language
English

Synopsis

Frank and Joe Hardy are on the case when rare pirate treasures start disappearing from museums. Their detective father enlists them to investigate a suspicious freighter, leading the brothers to go undercover as crewmen. This baffling mystery takes them on a thrilling chase after a self-proclaimed pirate king, culminating in their capture and imprisonment on a Caribbean island. Can the Hardy boys outsmart the pirate king and escape his clutches?

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

AdventurousTense
HeistQuestSecret Identity

Genres

Children's Books Juvenile Mystery

About the author

F
Franklin W. Dixon

A pseudonym for a series of ghostwriters hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate to write The Hardy Boys and Ted Scott Flying Stories, along with some Nancy Drew crossover stories. [Leslie McFarlane][1] is the most well known of these writers having written the first Hardy Boys book along with twenty others. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1822558A/Leslie_McFarlane

Characters

Frank HardyProtagonist
Joe HardyProtagonist
The Pirate KingAntagonist
Fenton HardySupporting
All characters in The Twisted Claw