Quote from: tomswift2002 on April 02, 2024, 08:18:28 AMAlso apparently the Casefiles have received "New" books such as #167 'Trouble Times Two', #168 'Castle Conundrum', #169 'Ghost of a Chance', #170'Kickoff To Danger', and #171 'The Test Case'.Yeah- they mislabeled those. It's cool to know you can still get some Hardy Boys books in Braille though.
Quote from: MacGyver on April 02, 2024, 01:35:44 AMIt looks like some still are in print.Also apparently the Casefiles have received "New" books such as #167 'Trouble Times Two', #168 'Castle Conundrum', #169 'Ghost of a Chance', #170'Kickoff To Danger', and #171 'The Test Case'.
http://www.braillebookstore.com/Hardy-Boys-Mysteries
QuoteI forgot that Spiked! was the second book in the January 1999 The Hardy Boys Casefiles Collector's Edition Volume 3 book. That book was later, I believe, released exclusively through Borders in the US in a hardcover edition that used the file folder cover art of the last Hardy Boys Mystery Stories books, including the blue spine, in December 2005, under the Aladdin imprint, using the artwork from #152 Danger In the Extreme. To date, that 2005 printing is the last American printing of any Casefiles in physical format.It looks like some still are in print.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 29, 2024, 05:56:12 PMI just finished the book. I've been busy with other stuff, so today I decided to finish it.This was also played around with to a small degree on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries in "The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula" 2 part episode.
In the end, it turned out that the Hardy's and Nancy were going after two different crooks. Although, with the Grant Shulman storyline the author kind of dropped it right at the end, when there was still more to it. The author had Nancy, Bess and the lead actor on the movie do a stake out where the lead actor was wearing a mic and Nancy was able to record the conversation. Anyway, the actor met with someone who flew in representing another production company, gave some clues, then left, and then the author had Nancy, Bess and the actor rush to the movie set where a bomb had been planted, and the assistant director, Grant Shulman, was arrested, and then nothing else was said about the other production company or the person who had flown in. Aside from being rivals, it was never really explained why the other production company wanted the movie shut down.
The other plot involving the murder of the race car driver, turns out the President of the Auto Federation was involved as well as a woman race driver, and it wasn't really clear why they wanted to steal the prize money for the race, however, part of her deal was that the President would promote her more in the Federation. And the race car driver who had been killed had been blackmailing them.
Joe and Bess seemed to have some sort of friendship/romance relationship going on, but it really went nowhere, of course in all the SuperMystery'88 books and I even remember back in the Super Sleuths! books Joe and Bess had that friendship/romance type relationship. Of course we do know that Joe and Bess do get married eventually...!
Rating: 7/10