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The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap.
Place: New York, United States. Date: 1927- .
While the Clock Ticked
by Franklin W. Dixon
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932 (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories), this copy being a printing of c. 1944.
Hardback with color pictorial dustwrapper. The stunning jacket art done in a bold color palette and the illustrated endpapers were designed by J. Clemens Gretta. The book has a a line drawing frontispiece on matte paper by the illustrator A.O. Scott. 213 pages plus extra pages of publisher advertisements.
THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES (GROSSET & DUNLAP)
Series Note: "The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American detective and from their father they were fired with zeal to bring the criminals to justice, and during their hours from school and during their vacation days, they followed up clues they unearthed themselves. Stories which are packed with excitement and adventure."
-- Source: Dustwrapper of While the Clock Ticked (1932; c. 1944 printing) in this series.
The series name, "The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories", was often abbreviated on the book covers to "The Hardy Boys". The target audience of this series was "boys from 10 to 14 who like adventure stories, packed with mystery and action" (publisher's blurb, 1954).
The books were produced by a book packager named the Stratemeyer Syndicate and published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1927 until 1979 when Simon & Schuster bought out the Syndicate. The author of each of the titles was Franklin W. Dixon, a pseudonym of a number of Stratemeyer Syndicate authors, including the Canadian Leslie McFarlane.
Serial Number / Title / First Year of Publication
1.
The Tower Treasure
1927
2.
The House on the Cliff
1927
3.
The Secret of the Old Mill
1927
4.
The Missing Chums
1928
5.
Hunting for Hidden Gold
1928
6.
The Shore Road Mystery
1928
7.
The Mystery of Cabin Island
1929
8.
The Secret of the Caves
1929
9.
The Great Airport Mystery
1930
10.
What Happened at Midnight
1931
11.
While the Clock Ticked
1932
12.
Footprints Under the Window
1933
13.
The Mark on the Door
1934
14.
The Hidden Harbor Mystery
1935
15.
The Sinister Sign Post
1936
16.
A Figure in Hiding
1937
17.
The Secret Warning
1938
18.
The Twisted Claw
1939
19.
The Disappearing Floor
1940
20.
Mystery of the Flying Express
1941
21.
The Clue of the Broken Blade
1942
22.
The Flickering Torch Mystery
1943
23.
The Melted Coins
1944
24.
The Short-Wave Mystery
1945
25.
The Secret Panel
1946
26.
The Phantom Freighter
1947
27.
The Secret of Skull Mountain
1948
28.
The Sign of the Crooked Arrow
1949
29.
The Secret of the Lost Tunnel
1950
30.
The Wailing Siren Mystery
1951
31.
The Secret of Wildcat Swamp
1952
32.
The Crisscross Shadow
1953
33.
The Yellow Feather Mystery
1953
34.
The Hooded Hawk Mystery
1954
35.
The Clue in the Embers
1955
36.
The Secret of Pirates' Hill
1956
37.
The Ghost at Skeleton Rock
1957
38.
The Mystery at Devil's Paw
1959
39.
The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
1959
40.
Mystery of the Desert Giant
1960
41.
The Clue of the Screeching Owl
1962
42.
The Viking Symbol Mystery
1962
43.
The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior
1964
44.
The Haunted Fort
1964
45.
The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge
1965
46.
The Secret Agent on Flight 101
1967
47.
Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
1967
48.
The Arctic Patrol Mystery
1969
49.
The Bombay Boomerang
1970
50.
Danger on Vampire Trail
1971
51.
The Masked Monkey
1972
52.
The Shattered Helmet
1973
53.
The Clue of the Hissing Serpent
1974
54.
The Mysterious Caravan
1975
55.
The Witchmaster's Key
1975
56.
The Jungle Pyramid
1976
57.
The Firebird Rocket
1978
58.
The Sting of the Scorpion
1978
Author: David Paul Wagner