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Bringing together six of the earliest mystery novels involving the Hardy Boys, this Starter Set is sure to bring a new generation of readers to mystery fiction. Summary of the Books This collection brings together: The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, The Secret of the Old Mill, The Missing Chums, Hunting for Hidden Gold, and The Shore Road Mystery. Join Frank and Joe Hardy as they venture to solve mind-numbing mysteries which baffle the police. Aiding their detective father in his cases, they show readers how to keep their nerve in the face of unsurmountable danger and come through in a pinch. Murderers, drug peddlers, race horse kidnappers, diamond smugglers, medical malpractitioners and big time auto thieves have nowhere to hide, not with the Hardy Boys on their tails! About Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is the pseudonym of several writers, all of them ghost-writing the Hardy Boys series of stories. The name was first used by a Canadian writer called Leslie McFarlane. The rights to the name and the books are owned by Simon & Schuster, a publishing house based in New York. The Hardy Boys were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm.