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Visiting New Orleans for the annual computer convention, the Hardy Boys watch things go from bad to worse when Joe gets into a fight at a local club and then is arrested when the guy he fought with is killed the next day.

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

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Franklin W. Dixon

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Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). Dixon was also the writer attributed for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series, published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Canadian author Leslie McFarlane is believed to have written the first sixteen Hardy Boys books, but worked to a detailed plot and character outline for each story. The outlines are believed to have originated with Edward Stratemeyer, with later books outlined by his daughters Edna C. Squier and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Edward and Harriet also edited all books in the series through the mid-1960s. Other writers of the original books include MacFarlane's wife Amy, John Button, Andrew E. Svenson, and Adams herself; most of the outlines were done by Adams and Svenson. A number of other writers and editors were recruited to revise the outlines and update the texts in line with a more modern sensibility, starting in the late 1950s.
The principal author for the Ted Scott books was John W. Duffield.

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July 12, 2019
When I first read Hardy Boys, I think I was in class 5, I had such a crush on Frank Hardy. I liked the brainy one over the brawny one and that sums up my first impression of Hardy Boys.
In their late teens, Frank and Joe Hardy take after their detective father Fenton Hardy. Frank is the older of the two and has more breakthroughs in the cases because he is the brainy one. Joe is the younger brother who more often than not is useful when things get hot and they need to fight their way out.
Like Nancy Drew, the books in the The Hardy Boys series re written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. And yes, the earlier books were better than the latter ones.
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May 3, 2020
While spending time at a computer convention in New Orleans, the Hardy Boys end up in serious trouble when Joe is wrongly accused of taking out a boy he fought, leading the duo to desperately seek out the truth before he ends up behind bars! Dixon will have readers guessing until the end with an average but intriguing mystery.
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September 21, 2014
This story is somehow familiar. Im getting tired of reading the case files. IM ALMOOOST DONE WITH ALL OF THEM but it looks like some of the plots are being duplicated: same twists, same place, same crime.

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November 30, 2016
Its very beautiful book. Crime here, then they solve it just to save who was killed. I love this!!
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