The Hardy Boys: The Infinity Clue - Franklin W. Dixon

Frank & Joe Hardy are the teenage sons of famous private detective Fenton Hardy & his wife Laura. Together, (& sometimes from help with family & friends) they investigate all sorts of crimes & strange occurences.... The Infinity Clue was published in the US in 1981 & was the seventieth in the series. The book first appeared in the UK in 1983 & was numbered 68 when it was published by Armada. This particular tale begins with Frank, Joe and their friend Biff Hooper visiting Biff's uncle at the Bayridge Nucleur Power Power. Almost as soon as they've arrived there's a small earthquake which is rather unusual as there are no ...  Read the complete review

In terms of believable reality in teenage fiction, you're not really going to get much out of the Hardy Boys. Stuck in a sort of time warp where the heroes, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are 18 and 17 respectively, and have been since the first book was published in 1927, we have seen them travel virtually all over the world, solving crimes that seem to have thwarted various countries' law enforcement specialists. The Hardy Boys' adventures normally involve them being sought out to find amissing person, retrieve stolen goods or stop the occasional international spy ring. When they are the ones approached by someone else, it drops the believability even more. ...  Read the complete review