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Hardy Boys 55: The Witchmaster's Key

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Mystery leads Frank and Joe to England and Ireland in this classic Hardy Boys adventure. This has got to be one of my favorites from the Hardy Boys series. It's filled with witches, curses, and giant dogs.

Mr. Hardy asks Frank and Joe to go to England to help an old friend when his witch museum is robbed. This book has a very intriguing mystery; it's exciting and it grabs your attention right away. The book features witches, curses, a strange disappearance and an old castle. Frank and Joe travel to London, Stonehenge, Ireland and the Isle of Man, but the book never sounds like a tour guide, as in many of the other high volumes when Frank and Joe travel. This is one of the few higher hardcover editions with which the reader won't be disappointed.

This volume had a poor cover art and horrible internal artwork. However - the story was like no other - very good plot for the most part. It reminds me of a Star Trek episode that Trekies may recall in the original 1960's series involving "L'Andrew". The villagers in that show and in this book are all acting "wierd" and there exists a strange presence in the air. I never liked the swift paced higher volumes as well as the lower volumes - and this book written 30 years earlier may have become much better. The brothers travel to England - become involved in the pusuit of witches and is the only volume of it's kind. The criminals remain undisclosed until the very end - something I rather liked. A definate worth read. RATED C+

A classic!! Well-written masterpiece with witches, curses, museum robbery, etc. One of the best Hardy Boys books that will keep you flipping one page after another until you finish it!

I don't remember all that happend because I read this book a long time ago. All I remember is the exciting parts. When in the fog a wierd cult was looking like they were worshiping the moon. And also the part when the boat was suddenly starting to sink and didn't know why; 'till later. Also the part when they were questioning a man when suddenly an arrow strucked the table that they were sitting in. It was most interesting when they explained the way the cults on the island was arranged. There were only two witch cults on the island called the white witches and the black witches. Of course the white were the good ones. ...

The story is mainly about the hardy boys freind who gets a shop
they find a secret passage way, and it has many mid evil stuff in it cause, the shops mid evil. Later they find a madalion. It is worth quit a bit.Some people find out about it. Now they must find what its for and quik why some other people with some strange powers are after them!