The Hardy Boys: The Stone Idol - 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 Stone Idol was published in the US in 1980 & was the sixty fifth in the series. The book first appeared in the UK in 1982 & was numbered 63 when it was published by Armada. The book opens with Frank & Joe still in New York after the conclusion of their previous adventure, The Mystery Of Smugglers Cove. Frank notices an ad in the Times:- "Wanted: a sleuth to investigate a strange mystery". ...  Read the complete review

The Hardy Boys are a pair of fictional brothers created post First World War, to serve as iconic fictional characters for teenage boys to read about. The books have been released on a regular basis since the first one, The Tower Treasure, was first published in 1927. Publishing rights for the first 58 books were held by Grosset & Dunlap until 1979, when they were taken over by Simon & Schuster. The Stone Idol is the 7th Hardy Boys book to be published under Simon & Schuster, but the 65th in total, and is often referred to as both numbers. It was first published in 1981. By this time, the Hardy Boys books had increased in terms of the regularity of ...  Read the complete review