Mystery of Smugglers Cove

Filled with mysterious adventures, and page turning thrills you'll never want to put this book down. the Mystery o f Smugglers Cove is about two Hardy Boy detectives who are sent on a case to the Everglades to try and find the person who stole a famous painting. The suspects are no other then the Hardy Boys themselves. They have to prove that they didn't steal the painting and capture the bad guys before something else goes wrong. When they go to the Everglades they have to disguise themselves as pirates and they work for the bad guy to find out what he's going to do with the painting. Read on and find out what happens. Do the bad guys get caught?, or are the Hardy Boys still suspets? Find out when you read the book. It's for boys and girls.

Referring to the comments above, this book is very thrilling because their near death by the vine rope, the alligators, and last but not least the dangerous smugglers. Now it's strange because why would anyone try to put a picture behind a frame, or in a secret panel behind the frame? Certainly it would require much practice and work. This was a very tricky mysrery, and is no doubt one of the top ten Hardy Boys choices.

A Bayport art-collector, Raymond Wester, suspects Frank and Joe of stealing one of his paintings, but offers them the chance to prove their innocence, so Frank, Joe, Chet and Biff head to Smuggler's Cove in the Florida Keys to track down the painting and the real thieves. Lots of action, suspence and a good plot. I enjoyed the book very much. My only problem with the story was that if Wester truely believed that Frank and Joe were guilty, why would he let them leave Bayport?

This is the only officially produced audio tape of a Hardy Boys story available. This is a 2 cassette set narrated by Cam Clarke of the King Family and produced by Peter Kline. The story is pretty good and the tape is not a bad version but some of Mr. Clarke's voice characterizations (particulary Biff's, which sounds like a cross between Leo Gorcey & Jerry Lewis) are hysterically bad. The cover has a copyright of 1985 but Mr. Clarke announces a 1983 copyright on the first tape and the tapes carry a 1983 copyright. ...