Customer Reviews

A Figure in Hiding (Hardy Boys, Book 16)

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4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This review concerns the original text edition by Applewood Books.

The Boys smash the fake eye surgery scam of quack Dr. Grafton and help Virginia Sinder and her grandma. This is a really good story! Another winner by Leslie McFarlane! The action never lets up from beginning to end. The sub-plots tie together nicely (except for Chet being sent to Boston, which is never adequately explained) and nobody does anything particularly stupid (except the inexplicable behavior of Virginia Sinder and her grandmother which borders on idiocy, proving the old adage of the apple not falling far from the tree!) The Boys show plenty of guts, quick thinking and some decent detecting. Grafton is one of the meanest, slimiest villians ever! Aunt Gertrude is annoying, ill-mannered and ill-tempered as usual. Definitely in the top 10 of all the stories in the original canon.

I bought this book back in 2005. I had read many Hardy Boys novels before and I bought it because I didn't have a copy. Originally, I was trying to find the blue spined one, but I found an "A FIGURE IN HIDING", but it had a different cover that interested me. So, I ordered it and just looking at it told me: DIFFERENT STORY.

HOWEVER,

WHAT HAPPENED! THE BOOK IS DEFINITELY # 99 IN THE TOP 100 WORST BOOKS KNOWN TO MANKIND! IT'S BASICALLY the final few chapters of a Hardy Boys book expanded about 12 times!

BUT,

I gave it *** . 1.5* for being a Hardy Boys book and another 1.5* for being somewhat interesting until you get so annoyed you get a headache from the plot ( it gets more & more boring the more times you read it).

ALL IN ALL...

IT'S OK! Not the worst one in the series.

I bought this book back in 2005. I had read many Hardy Boys novels before and I bought it because I didn't have a copy. Originally, I was trying to find the blue spined one, but I found an "A FIGURE IN HIDING", but it had a different cover that interested me. So, I ordered it and just looking at it told me: DIFFERENT STORY.

HOWEVER,

WHAT HAPPENED! THE BOOK IS DEFINITELY # 99 IN THE TOP 100 WORST BOOKS KNOWN TO MANKIND! IT'S BASICALLY the final few chapters of a Hardy Boys book expanded about 12 times!

BUT,

I gave it *** . 1.5* for being a Hardy Boys book and another 1.5* for being somewhat interesting until you get so annoyed you get a headache from the plot ( it gets more & more boring the more times you read it).

ALL IN ALL...

IT'S OK! Not the worst one in the series.

note: i meant to give it 3 * but I accidentally put 2*.