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While the Clock Ticked (The Hardy Boys #11)
Frank and Joe solve the mystery of the secret locked room in the spooky Dalrymple Mansion.
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For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES® - featuring the thrilling adventures of America's favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy ...more
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From book cover:
For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES® - featuring the thrilling adventures of America's favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy ...more
Hardcover, 174 pages
Published
January 1st 1990
by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc
(first published January 1st 1932)
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The classic boy detectives by Frank Dixon--I read ALL of them in my younger years, one I ran out of Nancy Drew books. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, aspiring to follow in their famous father's footsteps. Frank Hardy is the elder of the two and has dark hair. Joe Hardy is the younger brother, and has blond hair and blue eyes. The stories are an unaging series, in which Frank and Joe are always 18 and 17 years of age, respectively. In the original series the brothers were a younge...more
While the Clock Ticked was a very interesting book. I enjoyed the excitement and suspense that this book contained. Two brothers try to solve a mystery in their area. They are faced with many challenges that made the book even more enjoyable. Towards the end of the book, the Hardy boys are captured by the gang leader of the thieves. He is about to blow them up when they are saved by a friend. The ending was the most intense part. The unexpected almost always happens. I don't like to read, but wh...more
Probably one of the better in the series - not sure, as I've only read a half-dozen or so of these books.
The premise of the secret room(s) in the house was fascinating. The idea of how easily the innocent inventor, Amos Wandy, could be duped was less satisfactory.
It was interesting to see how the character of Mr. Dalrymple could be placed in contrasting lights - I wish more could have been done along that angle.
Recommended for young readers who think that Harr...more
The premise of the secret room(s) in the house was fascinating. The idea of how easily the innocent inventor, Amos Wandy, could be duped was less satisfactory.
It was interesting to see how the character of Mr. Dalrymple could be placed in contrasting lights - I wish more could have been done along that angle.
Recommended for young readers who think that Harr...more
This is a re-read (and a really quick one, at that!), having read it the first time approximately 48 yrs. ago.
What can one say? Tom and Joe, evil villains, car chases, boat chases, foot races, Chet, Aunt Gertrude, really terrible writing. I loved every minute of it. And it only took about 45 of them to polish this off.
What can one say? Tom and Joe, evil villains, car chases, boat chases, foot races, Chet, Aunt Gertrude, really terrible writing. I loved every minute of it. And it only took about 45 of them to polish this off.
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Oh man..it's one of the books that got me started on reading. My dad gave this book to me; it was his when he was a boy. I remember being a youngin' and reading a couple of pages at a time.
I loved this mystery!
I loved this mystery!
I loved Hardy Boys books as a kid. They were my first books over 80 pages long that I ever read ... well ok my dad read most of the first few to me, but they were the books that got me started.
This is one of the best of the old-school Hardy Boy mysteries. I even have both the original and rewritten versions! However, so far I've only read the newer version.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSOME!!! read like all of the books in this series, so awesome! coool, exciting, graphic, thrilling, mysterious... :D
This is a legitimately good Hardy Boys adventure. There's mystery, suspense, danger (look at the front cover!) and a pretty nifty secret inside the mansion.
I read the Hardy Boys books (and Nancy Drew) when I was a child. The stories are old fashioned, but that's why I like them so much.
A short easy read that I found hard to put down. Almost as good as the Nancy Drew mysteries!!
it was great it was i learned the people you trust can turn out to be your ememy.
This series was wonderful and a great read. read them all and enjoyed them all.
Although the cover freaked me out, this book turned out ok. The only thing I didn't like was that the author dragged stuff out for too long when you could guess what was going to happen.
very nice book its in the library go see it your self
lots, and lots of action and mystery. perfect for me!!! :)
My book was published in 1962 with that year's cover.
This is one of the best Hardy Boy books in the series!
Its a really good book of the duo frank and Joe
I thought it was a great mystery book
Fiction,Children's fiction
Had lots of suspense
Jenna
marked it as to-read
to-read
A classic.
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good book
Jebin
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Loved it.
I like the hardy boys this was by far his best hardy boys book.
Very good book!
Don't know what others would think but I like this book very much.
Don't know what others would think but I like this book very much.
While the Clock Tickes there will be death. That is the note found in a room that no one not even the owner can get in exept on sertain times. So how did the note mysteriously appear in there room. and the clock in the abandoned house. Is being wound by someone. But who?
...Um, Hardy Boys rocked. I mean rock. I think I'm going to start reading these again for the heck of it. Saved my old box of them.
Yes, I read books because of the covers.
Yes, I read books because of the covers.
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Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). This pseudonym was also used for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series.
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