The Twisted Claw
About this book
A series of museum thefts launch the Hardy boys on this baffling mystery. Rare collections of ancient pirate treasure are being stolen. Who is doing it? And how is the loot being smuggled out of the United States? Frank and Joe's celebrated detective father is working on the case and asks the boys to stake out the Black Parrot, a suspicious freighter docked in Bayport Harbor. Disguised as crewmen the teen-age sleuths board the ship, determined to investigate its cargo hold. Clues that the boys unearth take them on a whirlwind chase after a self-styled pirate king -- a chase that leads to their imprisonment in the fantastic Caribbean island stronghold of the Empire of the Twisted Claw. How Frank and Joe cleverly outmaneuver the pirate king and his cohorts makes a gripping tale of suspense and high adventure. - Flyleaf.
The Hardy Boys · 107 books
In publication order- The Secret Warning 1938
- The Twisted Claw 1939 This book
- The Disappearing Floor 1940
- The Mystery of the Flying Express 1941
Subjects
- buried treasure
- children's fiction
- collectionid:hbms1
- detective and mystery stories
- fiction
- hardy boys (fictitious characters)
- hardy boys (fictitious characters), fiction
- juvenile fiction
- mystery
- mystery and detective stories
- series:hardyboys
- smuggling, fiction
- stealing
- theft
- treasure troves
- united states, fiction