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Title: Enjoyable, wholesome fantasy for teenage boys
Review: This is one of the first Hardy Boys books that I read in my youth and it remains one of the best. It begins with Chet Morton being passed a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill and involves the counterfeiters as well as a group sabotaging a local factory engaged in secret industrial techniques. The action is regularly spaced, there is a double date with Callie Shaw and Iola Morton and Frank and Joe are knocked unconscious.While the action in the Hardy boys series is largely a teenage boys fantasy, it is a good one. I was so fascinated by the stories that I won a fifth grade reading contest by reading so many Hardy Boys books that I easily outdistanced the competition. There is little real violence and the reader must think a bit to follow the story. This combination makes the series some of the best and most enjoyable reading that budding men can do.
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