Shortly after Frank is located, the three boys are arrested on charges of robbing Mr. Joe and Chet manage to swim to shore but Frank Hardy goes missing as he stayed behind to assist the injured Mr. Blackstone is knocked down and badly hurt. Shortly thereafter, the ship runs aground and Mr. Samuel Blackstone who tells the boys that he is carrying a large sum of money. The story begins with the Hardy boys and their pal Chet Morton returning to Bayport on a small coast liner from Larchmont where they had procured handwriting samples from Miss Pennyweather for a case on which their father, Fenton Hardy, was working. Blackstone decide to work together to harvest the valuable cypress trees from Hidden Harbor. Rand and recover a treasure chest containing historical records which prove that the accusations Mr. Rand missing.ĭespite the efforts of their enemies, the Hardy boys manage to find Mr. Blackstone, only moments later to find the vase intact and Mr. Rand being hit over the head with a vase by Mr. They are surprised to find a ‘sea monster’ in the pond and to witness Mr. Once they have set up a camp on the beach between the two properties, the boys begin to investigate the Rand and Blackstone estates. Worth’s case and, along with their friend Chet Morton, drive to Georgia. Worth also tells the Hardy boys about the long-standing feud between the Blackstone and the Rand families over ownership of a pond in Hidden Harbor. Samuel Blackstone has sued him for printing a story accusing his ancestors of being pirates. Bart Worth who is the editor of the Larchmont Record. For example, the chief villain, a young black man named Luke Jones is described in the 1935 edition as "the worst scoundrel we have ever come across", but is completely removed from the 1961 version, and most characters identifiable as black have been reworked as racially ambiguous. The original story contained racial stereotypes which were removed during the revision. The original version of this book was rewritten in 1961 by James Beuchler resulting in two different stories with the same title.
Hidden harbor series#
Between 19 the first 38 volumes of this series were systematically revised as part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, Edward Stratemeyer's daughter. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1935, purportedly by Leslie McFarlane however, the writing style is noticeably different from other books in the series known to have been written by McFarlane. The Hidden Harbor Mystery is Volume 14 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.