Hardy Boys Encyclopedia

The cover is now available for The Vanishing Game at the Simon and Schuster website.

Just a reminder that the first two Hardy Boys Adventures books Secret of the Red Arrow and Mystery of the Phantom Heist are now available for purchase. 

The third book in the series, The Vanishing Game, is also available for pre-order from Amazon.com

As we near the end of 2012, we look back and see where we have come in the past year.  Like last year we have added a couple Casefiles Encyclopedia updates, yet unlike last year we are no longer wondering about the future of the Undercover Brothers. The UB series has come to an end and the new Adventures series is about to begin.

But what makes modern technology even more exciting is that we can track what is popular and what is not.  Below are a few interesting tidbits taken from the sites web statistics based upon most visits to these sections of the website.

An asterisk(*) denotes that a particular item was not in the top list last year.


Most Popular Books 2012

CASEFILES
Casefiles #1: Dead On Target
Casefiles #11: Brother Against Brother
Casefiles #12: Perfect Getaway*
Casefiles #2: Evil, Inc.
Casefiles #3: Cult of Crime

NANCY DREW AND HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #1: Double Crossing
SuperMystery #25: Secrets of the Nile
SuperMystery #36: Process of Elimination
SuperMystery #3: Shock Waves
SuperMystery #2: A Crime for Christmas*

NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #2: Danger Overseas
SuperMystery #4: Gold Medal Murder
SuperMystery #5: Bonfire Masquerade
SuperMystery #1: Terror on Tour
SuperMystery #3: Club Dread

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS GRAPHIC NOVELS
Graphic Novel #1: The Ocean of Osyria
Graphic Novel #15: Live Free, Die Hardy!
Graphic Novel #18: D.A.N.G.E.R. Spells the Hangman
Graphic Novel #20: Deadly Strategy
Graphic Novel (NC) #1: Crawling with Zombies

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS
UB #1: Extreme Danger
UB #2: Running on Fumes
UB #8: Top Ten Ways To Die*
UB #3: Boardwalk Bust
UB #39: Movie Mayhem*


Most Popular Wallpapers 2012

CASEFILES (wallpapers found at the bottom of each casefile 1-15 page)
Casefile #1: Dead On Target
Casefile #11: Brother Against Brother
Casefile #13: The Borgia Dagger*
Casefile #4: Lazarus Plot*
Casefile #7: Deathgame


Most Popular Database Entries 2012

CASEFILES
Callie Shaw
Fenton Hardy
Frank Hardy
Chet Morton
Joe Hardy
Iola Morton
Mr. Arthur Edward Gray
Assassins
Philip Cohen*
Al Rousasa

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS
Frank Hardy
Vee Sharp
Joe Hardy
ATACT (American Teens Against Crime)
Nancy Drew
Playback
Fenton Hardy
Chet Morton
Q.T.
Gertrude Trudy

The Hardy Boys Adventures #2 Mystery of the Phantom Heist cover art has been unveiled on Amazon.com.  The book is scheduled to be made available February 5, 2013, along with the first book of the series, Secret of the Red Arrow.

The long-awaited season 3 of the Hardy Boys 1970's tv series will finally be released in February 2013.  Season 3 can be pre-purchased at Amazon.com



Thanks to Trevor Thurlow and Matthias Smith for the heads up on this information over at the Hardy Boys Casefiles Facebook Group. 

The characters, places, and events of Hardy Boys Casefile #14, Too Many Traitors, have been entered into the Network Database.

"Lights, Camera...Zombies?", the 12th book in the Hardy Boys Secret Files series is due to be released in August 2013.  Both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com have the cover for the book up right now---and it looks very Halloweenish.