Customer Reviews

The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys, Book 9)

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a fascimile of the original book. A nice copy and a nice idea. So far they have released about 8 of these fascimile editions in the Hardy Boys series and several in the Nancy Drew and Tom Swift series also.

The Great Airport Mystery is a tale of early flying, mail plane robberies, and races across the countryside in a roadster. It was a long ago time when kids had to pass exams to graduate from High School. No revisionism and mindless updating to make the stories "relevant" to the contemporary reader. This is not great literature, but updating is really little more than colorizing black&white movies.

This is just plain fun, and thanks to the publishers for giving us an opportunity to see what fun was for kids 75 years ago.

This tells the story of a group of thieves who steal platinum. The Hardy Boys track the thieves from Bayport to Ile de la Mer, an allegedly uninhabited island, to a mountain hideout in Montana. While solving the case they also find a hidden cave, the ghost of a dead pilot who haunts his guilty former partner and a plot that incorporates airport workers on every level. Thrilling and entertaining. Good for people of all ages.

This book was okay, just okay. In my opinion, it didn't have as good adventures as the others books had. There were some exciting parts, true; but to, me the whole book wasn't worth it. The end was disappointing and somewhat predictable.

Try reading: "While the Clocked Ticked" the Hardy Boys book #11. Now that is some really good fiction.

Frank and Joe Hardy are amateur detectives that have successflly solved many cases. Of course, this story starts out normal enough. They are just driving home to assist their professional Private Investigator father, Fenton, in another case. Then something really strange happens when they decide to take a short cut. They stumble upon what turns out to be part of their case. From there, it is pure excitment and
sleuthing.

I thought this book was an enjoyable read. I loved all the twists and turns and suspensful moments. The only reason I took of the fifth star was it went too fast even for me. One moment the hardys could be sitting eating, and then boom! Something completely big will happen. The point is the plot was sometimes filled with holes. Other than that, I loved this book

This book is about a man called Clint Hill who supposedly drowned in an aviation accident.Instead he was cared for by some natives and eventually got back home.The man who was in the aircraft with him took the only life raft and left Clint to drown because he wanted Clint's job.When clint got back home to the United States he sent some eerie messages over the radio because he wanted to scare the other man,Len Peterson. This is a great book and I reccomend it to anyone between the ages of 10-15.Although this was published 67 years ago it's still relevant for the nineties.ENJOY:))

This review concerns the original 1930 edition. Frank and Joe are arrested following the theft of valuable mail bags from the airport and must track down the real thieves in order to clear their names. While there is nothing spectacular about this book to make it stand out from the rest, it is by no means a bad book. The mystery is interesting and there is a decent amount of action. One thing that I did like about this book was that the criminals were featured prominently thoughout the book, unlike in some other volumes where Frank and Joe don't come across the criminals until the last few pages. Many readers will find it odd that the Hardys and their friends graduate from high school in this book (especially since in #10, they are back in high school), apparently, with the beginning of the Great Depression, the author must have been unsure as to whether or not the series would continue. This is an above average book any Hardy Boys fan would enjoy reading.

This review concerns the revised 1965 edition. Mr. Hardy asks Frank and Joe to help him on a case concerning the theft of platinum containing electronic parts from company called Stanwide. Frank and Joe go undercover at the company to find out who is behind the thefts and soon find a number of suspects. They also find another mystery about the ghost of Clint Hill, Stanwide's chief pilot, who died in a plane crash at sea, who has been harassing one of the company's employees. This was a rather interesting book; I thought that it had one of the better plots of the books in the series. The book had plenty of action and the Hardys came into contact with the criminals quite often. I liked the part where the Hardys went undercover at Stanwide; unfortunately, it was much too short. I was a little disappointed with the ending. I found it to be rather quick and I thought that the Hardys were able to find the criminals too easily. Also, the "surprise" at the end of the book wasn't much of a surprise. Mostly; however, I enjoyed the book and I think that any Hardy Boys fan would like it.

You can keep saying that this book is cool! Franklin W. Dixion really showed a good plane story. This was my fourth book, and I just couldn't stop dreaming about flying a plane. Someday I'm going to be sure I do just that. Anybody who likes ghost stuff, action, and planes should read this. And as for the ghost, it didn't seem real near the ending. I knew Clint Hill might have lived, like some plots on Scooby Doo. But, ghost or not, it's a teriffic book that's worth reading.

This book is one of my favorite Hardy Boys mysteries. It is about when frank and joe Hardy are driving and they take a shortcut but its a dead end.But all of the sudden something wierd happens a plane flies over their car and it is soooo low that the wheels of it skidded on the top of there car.So they are left unconcious for about 1 hour then when they reach concious they are in there car with it turned over and they are in a way trapped. After a few seconds of mind problems they get out and go into a unknown area to them to look for poles. BUT a MAN shows up with a shotgun and after some negociating he gives them permission to look for a pole. But when they get home they find out he is an ex-convict named: Bush Barney while going through their famous detectives fathers files of his convicts and cases. So you'll have to read the book to find out the exciting conclusion.

This exciting and adventurous novel was the best one out all the Hardy Boy mysteries!!!! This is a must read!