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detectives. They live in the fictional town of Bayport with their father, detective Fenton Hardy, thei r mother, Laura Hardy,[8] and their Aunt Gertrude. Frank, the elder brother, is 18 (16 in earlier versions), and his younger brother Joe is 17 (15 in earlier ve rsions). The brothers nominally attend high school in Bayport, where they are in the same grade,[9] but school is rarely mentioned in the books and never hinder s the Hardys in solving mysteries.[1] In the older stories, the Hardy Boys' case s often are linked to the confidential cases their detective father is working o n. He sometimes asks them for help, while at other times they stumble upon villa ins and incidents that are connected to his cases. In the Undercover Brothers se ries, begun in 2005, the Hardys are members of an organization known as American Teens Against Crime, which assigns them to cases. The Hardy Boys are sometimes assisted in solving mysteries by their friends Chet Morton, Phil Cohen, Biff Hoo per, Jerry Gilroy, and Tony Prito, and, less frequently, by their platonic girlf riends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton (Chet's sister). The Hardy Boys are constantly involved in adventure and action. Despite frequent danger the boys "never lose their nerve ... They are hardy boys, luckier and mo re clever than anyone around them."[10] They live in an atmosphere of mystery an d intrigue: "Never were so many assorted felonies committed in a simple American small town. Murder, drug peddling, race horse kidnapping, diamond smuggling, me dical malpractice, big-time auto theft, even (in the 1940s) the hijacking of str ategic materials and espionage, all were conducted with Bayport as a nucleus."[1 1] With so much in common, the boys are so little differentiated that one commen tator facetiously describes them thus: "The boys' characters basically broke dow n this way Frank had dark hair; Joe was blond."[12] In general, however, "Frank was the thinker while Joe was more impulsive, and perhaps a little more athletic ."[12] The two boys are infallibly on good terms with each other and never engag e in sibling rivalry.[13] Frank and Joe do not lack for money and they travel frequently to far-away locat ions, including Mexico in The Mark on the Door (1934), Scotland in The Secret Ag ent on Flight 101 (1967), Iceland in The Arctic Patrol Mystery (1969), Egypt in The Mummy Case (1980), and Kenya in The Mystery of the Black Rhino (2003). The H ardys also travel freely within the United States by motorcycle, motor boat, ice boat, and airplane,[14] as well as their own car. 1. The Tower Treasure 2. The House on the Cliff 3. The Secret of the Old Mill 4. The Missing Chums 5. Hunting for Hidden Gold 6. The Shore Road Mystery 7. The Secret of the Caves 8. The Mystery of Cabin Island 9. The Great Airport Mystery 10. What Happened at Midnight 11. While the Clock Ticked 12. Footprints under the Window 13. The Mark on the Door 14. The Hidden Harbor Mystery 15. The Sinister Signpost 16. A Figure in Hiding 17. The Secret Warning 18. The Twisted Claw 19. The Disappearing Floor 20. Mystery of the Flying Express 21. The Clue of the Broken Blade 22. The Flickering Torch Mystery
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