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The Shore Road Mystery

The Shore Road Mystery is Volume 6 in the original
The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & The Shore Road Mystery
Dunlap.[1] The plot centers on attempts by the Hardy Boys
to catch a ring of car thieves stealing cars from the Shore
Road.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by

Leslie McFarlane in 1928.[2] Between 1959 and 1973 the
first 38 volumes of this series were systematically revised as
part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, Edward
Stratemeyer's daughter.[3] The original version of this book
was rewritten in 1964 by David Grambs[2] resulting in two
different stories with the same title.

Contents
Plot
Revised edition
Original edition
Original edition
Author Franklin W. Dixon
References
Country United States
Language English
Plot Series The Hardy Boys
Genre Detective, mystery
Revised edition Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication September 1, 1928,
The Hardy boys, Frank and Joe, were taking a casual drive date revised edition 1964
down Shore Road when they heard a report about a stolen
car. Frank and Joe raced towards the scene and actually saw Pages original edition 212,
the stolen car. Suddenly, a big red produce truck came right revised edition 178
into the middle of the road. The boys had no choice but to OCLC 2531187 (https://ww
slam on their brakes. They ended up crashing into a fence w.worldcat.org/oclc/
and were dazed but uninjured. The driver came out of the 2531187)
truck and apologized. Frank remarks that "Something
seems fishy about that guy.". They both return home that LC Class PZ7.D644 Sh10
night trying not to let their mother see their cuts and Preceded by Hunting for Hidden
bruises. Gold

The next morning a friend of the Hardys, Jack Dodd, calls Followed by The Secret of the
and tells the Hardys to come quickly. The police were Caves
looking for a suspect who had stolen a car. The police
thought they found their man. They found Jack Dodd's fishing rod in the trunk of one of the
stolen cars. Jack insisted that he had not put it there and that he was being framed. The cops
handcuffed Jack and his father and took them down to headquarters. Later that night Chief

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Collig came to the Hardy's home telling them that the Dodds had taken off in their station
wagon. A relative of the Dodds is trying to find a solution to an old mystery an ancestor had in
the Bayport area.

Original edition

While riding their motorcycles along the Shore Road the Hardy boys, along with their pal Chet
Morton, meet a local fisherman who has just had his car stolen. The three boys give chase, but
are delayed due to an accident with a horse-drawn hay wagon. Further down the road they find
their chum, Jack Dodd, and his father being questioned by the police because a stolen car was
found in their yard with Jack's fishing rod in the back seat. The Hardy boys resolve to solve the
case and clear their friend's name.

While investigating the case the Hardy boys identify suspects including a band of tramps
camping on the beach, a man named Gus Montrose who used to work for Mr. Dodd, and a
group of fishermen sneaking around the woods at night.

The Hardy boys, with their father Fenton Hardy, the Bayport Police force, State Troopers and a
number of other curious people all attempt to investigate/find the car thefts; however, everyone
involved is stumped because the cars seem to disappear without a trace and are not spotted
leaving either end of the Shore Road area. Because of this the Hardy boys believe that the cars
are still in the area, but well hidden, so they devise a plan to trap the car thieves. After
purchasing a nice looking roadster the Hardy boys park the car along the Shore Road and hide
in a large locker on the back. During the first night the car does get some troubles to get started
and thief leaves it but on the next night it is stolen, with the boys in the locker, and driven to the
thieves’ secret hideout where the boys are discovered. After some excitement (involving guns),
the Hardy boys manage to escape and alert the police who surround the area and arrest all of
the thieves (including Gus Montrose) and recover the stolen vehicles.

References
1. The Shore Road Mystery (http://www.worldcat.org/title/shore-road-mystery/oclc/3390320) at
WorldCat
2. Keeline, James D. "Who Wrote the Hardy Boys? Secrets from the Syndicate Files
Revealed" (http://www.keeline.com/Hardy_Boys.pdf) (PDF).
3. The Hardy Boys Online: Revisions (http://www.hardyboysonline.net/content.php?page=serie
s-canon-revisions)

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