The Arctic Patrol Mystery (The Hardy Boys #48)
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I found this hardcover former-library edition in a Little Free Library on Bridge St. near Wharf St. in Bluffton SC USA. It appears to once have been at West-Oak Middle School in Westminster SC. This is a 1998 printing of the 1997 revision of the 1969 original.
The Hardy Boys is a long-running series of mysteries aimed at boy readers, that feature action and amateur sleuthing. Beginning in 1927, they were ghost-written by several writers, under the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon. The Arctic Patrol Mystery is #48, originally published in 1966. It came out just after the big re-write of the older Hardy Boys books #1 through #38, so is still the original story.
In it, Frank and Joe’s father sends them to Iceland to find a missing owner of a $50,000 inheritance. But once there, they become involved in the case of the international kidnapping of a US astronaut, that their father has been investigating. They make local friends, and the author gives background on the land and people of Iceland. It is a little strange that the US government would entrust such a significant case to a private investigator and his sons, rather than trained agents – but that’s what The Hardy Boys was all about.
I did not recognize this as one of the stories I read as a boy maybe 60 years ago, and I’m pretty sure the copies I found at my grandfather’s house in those days were the older ones with original storylines. But this one was released when I was 11, and I remember the covers from the bookstores. Too bad I didn’t have money to buy my own books then, because I think I would have enjoyed it.
In it, Frank and Joe’s father sends them to Iceland to find a missing owner of a $50,000 inheritance. But once there, they become involved in the case of the international kidnapping of a US astronaut, that their father has been investigating. They make local friends, and the author gives background on the land and people of Iceland. It is a little strange that the US government would entrust such a significant case to a private investigator and his sons, rather than trained agents – but that’s what The Hardy Boys was all about.
I did not recognize this as one of the stories I read as a boy maybe 60 years ago, and I’m pretty sure the copies I found at my grandfather’s house in those days were the older ones with original storylines. But this one was released when I was 11, and I remember the covers from the bookstores. Too bad I didn’t have money to buy my own books then, because I think I would have enjoyed it.
