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Title: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: kosmicdust on November 13, 2017, 12:23:41 AM
What an intriguing title! I can only presume 'Gray Hunter' is someone's name ...

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Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on November 13, 2017, 07:14:23 AM
Thanks for the heads-up on this. Intriguing indeed.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on November 13, 2017, 11:30:49 AM
It's to bad that there wasn't an earlier book, since the title almost sounds like a sequel title.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: Hardy Sleuth on November 13, 2017, 06:23:48 PM
Quote from: kosmicdust on November 13, 2017, 12:23:41 AM
What an intriguing title! I can only presume 'Gray Hunter' is someone's name ...

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Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on November 15, 2017, 03:58:43 PM
The title is obviously a reference to Aunt Gertrude, refusing to admit she's aging, even when the gray hairs keep popping up through her latest dye job. Frank and Joe have teased her about it one too many times...and find themselves victim to the classic Nair in the shampoo gag. Can the now bald young detectives solve the mystery of which diabolical enemy came up with this harebrained scheme against them? Talk about a close shave!
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: SkyWarp on November 16, 2017, 07:02:51 PM
April 1st seems awfully soon for another Adventure book considering the one before it comes out February 20th?  Might we see more than just two books next year?
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: Bigfootman on November 16, 2017, 10:42:48 PM
Quote from: SkyWarp on November 16, 2017, 07:02:51 PM
April 1st seems awfully soon for another Adventure book considering the one before it comes out February 20th?  Might we see more than just two books next year?
I suspect the release date is a typo. The release date for 'Famous Mistakes" (Nancy Drew Diaries #17) is  August 28, 2018, and it's possible that whoever made the amazon listing for "Grey Hunter's Revenge" made a typo and wrote April instead of August. Normally there's about a month in between the release of a Diaries and a Adventures book. For example:

The Sign in the Smoke: May 10, 2016
The Madman of Black Bear Mountain: June 7, 2016

The Professor and the Puzzle: August 8, 2017
A Con Artist in Paris: September 5, 2017

The Haunting on Heliotrope Lane: January 2, 2018
Stolen Identity: February 20, 2018





Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on November 17, 2017, 09:02:23 PM
Up here in Canada Chapters is reporting April 1, 2018 for the book as well, and there are two dates for the Oasis Audio Version: April 1 & 8.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on November 18, 2017, 12:22:23 AM
Interesting.... Of course, April 1st. is an incredibly appropriate date for someone to get fooled by a typo. ;D
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: Bigfootman on January 22, 2018, 02:49:25 PM
http://oasisaudio.com/product/gray-hunters-revenge/
Oasis Audios website says the audio book for Grey Hunter's Revenge will be released October 09, 2018.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on January 22, 2018, 03:38:36 PM
Cool. Thanks for the update. :) 8)
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 23, 2018, 10:12:57 AM
Quote from: Bigfootman on January 22, 2018, 02:49:25 PM
http://oasisaudio.com/product/gray-hunters-revenge/
Oasis Audios website says the audio book for Grey Hunter's Revenge will be released October 09, 2018.
Chapters.ca is still listing April 1, 2018.  There also saying the narrator is a "Tim Gregory"
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on February 05, 2018, 01:16:24 PM
Here's the summary for The Gray Hunter's Revenge:
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Frank and Joe investigate a supernatural crime in the seventeenth book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series.

One of the Hardys' favorite writers, Nathan Foxwood, has recently died in a tragic car accident. Now, the press is swarming his house in Bayort to get the scoop on the novel he completed just before his untimely death.

When Joe hears that Nathan's wife is having a giant estate sale, he drags Frank with him. Who could pass up the opportunity to see inside their favorite author's home? Nathan's wife says she wants to get away as quickly as possible; strange things have been happening since their first night there and now her husband is gone and she's sure the house is haunted. But Nathan's assistant, Adam, is not so willing to blame it all on the supernatural. Valuable things keep disappearing from the house—why would a ghost need money? Adam recognizes the Hardys' from an article he read and asks for their help.

Of course Frank and Joe Hardy don't believe in ghosts and are positive they can get to the bottom of all this. But when Adam is mysteriously hurt after spending the night alone in the house, the brothers start to wonder; what is the motive for these crimes if not ghostly revenge? Could these brother detectives be in over their heads?

The cover reminds me of the cover for The Deadliest Dare, while the write-up reminds me of Real Horror and some of the original The Disappearing Floor.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on April 06, 2018, 05:36:21 PM
I just saw on Chapters website that the physical hardcover and paperback editions are scheduled for release on October 9, 2018.  However, the Audio CD is still showing an April 1 and April 8 release date and there's no ebook release date.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 22, 2018, 06:18:23 PM
I got an email from Chapters earlier in the week saying that the release date has been pushed back to November 6, 2018.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on October 02, 2018, 01:29:30 PM
I just noticed something else about this book on Amazon.com's page. It lists this book as Book 17 of 18 in The Hardy Boys Adventures series and on the page for "The Disappearance", that book is listed as Book 18 of 18 in The Hardy Boys Adventures series. I wonder if that is just an automated thing to help shoppers keep track of ongoing series. (i.e. Maybe it only says 18 because that's all the books planned for now. And when a 19th. title is ready, the pages will be updated to reflect that.) It's probably nothing but is this maybe a hint that the series is coming to an end?...
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on October 16, 2018, 04:11:20 AM
On Sunday Chapters told me the paperback has shipped, but I just got another email saying that the hardcovers release date has changed from November 6 to December 4.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on October 17, 2018, 03:24:40 PM
I just received The Gray Hunter's Revenge in the mail today.  I haven't read it yet, but its a short story (not as short as Attack of The Bayport Beast at 106 pages) at 124 pages.  The back cover advertises for The Disappearance, however, the sample chapters in the book are from Secret Of The Red Arrow with the caption "Don't Miss Where It All Began".


Considering that they are advertising the first book from 2013, I wonder if this is the death knell for The Hardy Boys Adventures.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on October 17, 2018, 05:06:06 PM
Wow- interesting! Thanks for the report. Yeah- sure sounds like it might be winding down.
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Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on October 17, 2018, 09:37:45 PM
Just saw this on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Hardy-Boys-Adventures/dp/1534414886/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1534414886&pd_rd_r=3b6d9635-d27e-11e8-b4d0-e1b91b9d888c&pd_rd_w=Yuhrv&pd_rd_wg=dxeDG&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=MATW41A50G7FGDHYZ101&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=MATW41A50G7FGDHYZ101

It's a case of hidden identities for brother detectives Frank and Joe in the in the eighteenth book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series.

The Hardy brothers and Frank's new girlfriend, Jones, are attending a local comic book convention on the shore. They meet up with Jones's friend Harper, a fellow comics super fan, on the boardwalk outside the convention. The four of them spend hours running from booth to booth and end the perfect day with pizza at Harper's short-term rental apartment.

Things don't stay so perfect, though. On the way home, Jones realizes she switched phones with Harper by accident and she is getting some really scary texts. When they show up at the apartment the next day, they find it totally destroyed and Harper is missing.

Frank and Joe start digging into their new friend's life, hoping to find out where she might have gone, but the more they find out about her, the more mysterious she becomes. Can Frank and Joe find this secretive character? Or has she disappeared forever?
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on October 25, 2018, 09:50:26 AM
So I just finished The Gray Hunter's Revenge this morning.  What a doozy of a book. 

The first part just dragged, and was finally resolved in an anti-climatic fashion for a Hardy Boys book, and then the second part really felt like it was trying to redo Casefiles #80 Dead Of Night, including having a scene with a music box, and so far in the Adventures it was probably the best written section of any of the stories.  But then the author, after letting Frank get one punch in, had the second set of criminals give up way to easily and then you had 2 chapters of just confession and wrap-up.  So the actual story only took about 106 pages of the 124. 

And again I was having a hard time pinning down Frank and Joe's personalities, since in the book Frank drives a motorcycle and a car, while Joe only drives a car, so they are both over 16 to have their licenses, but in the first part of the book the boys are depicted as maybe being 12 or 13 in terms of their personalities, but then during the second part it seems like they are 17 and 18 year-olds. 

Rating: 3.5/10

Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on October 25, 2018, 12:37:31 PM
Thanks for the review.
As to age depictions of Frank and Joe, remember that even older teenagers can sometimes still be really immature at times.
No chance The Gray Hunter had any tie-in to The Gray Man, I suppose?
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on October 25, 2018, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: MacGyver on October 25, 2018, 12:37:31 PM
Thanks for the review.
As to age depictions of Frank and Joe, remember that even older teenagers can sometimes still be really immature at times.
No chance The Gray Hunter had any tie-in to The Gray Man, I suppose?

I wish! ::)
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on October 25, 2018, 10:25:25 PM
Quote from: MacGyver on October 25, 2018, 12:37:31 PM
Thanks for the review.
As to age depictions of Frank and Joe, remember that even older teenagers can sometimes still be really immature at times.
No chance The Gray Hunter had any tie-in to The Gray Man, I suppose?

I realize that, but in this book it's like Frank and Joe have multiple personality disorder. 

And the Gray Hunter is not related to the Gray Man. 

Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: tomswift2002 on October 31, 2018, 11:27:12 AM
Quote from: MacGyver on October 25, 2018, 12:37:31 PM
As to age depictions of Frank and Joe, remember that even older teenagers can sometimes still be really immature at times.
They can be immature, but as I said in The Gray Hunter's Revenge, it was like you had 2 different Frank and Joe's.  I just finished Trick-or-Trouble where Joe acted immature a couple of times, but it was nothing like how "immature" he and Frank were acting in The Gray Hunter's Revenge.
Title: Re: Hardy Boys Adventures #17 - Gray Hunter’s Revenge
Post by: MacGyver on November 03, 2018, 06:54:55 PM
Okay. Thanks for answering that.
As to the maturity level thing- there's also such a thing as really inconsistent writing... :(