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The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook (revised text)
- For the original edition of this book, see The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook (original text)
| The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook | |
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| Attribution | |
| Author | William F. Flynn |
| House name | Franklin W. Dixon |
| Illustrator | Rudy Nappi |
| Cover artist | Rudy Nappi |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
| Publication date | 1972 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 214 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-448-1990-6 |
| Chronology | |
| Series | Considered part of the Original series by some |
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The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook is a guide book to methods for solving mysteries, and was the first ever Hardy Boys spin-off published. It was first published in 1959 by Grosset & Dunlap, and the revised edition was published 12 years later, in 1972.
Plot summary
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The book is split into 12 sections or chapters, each of which illustrates a different detective methods. The first seven chapters show how Frank and Joe use various facets of police technology to track down criminals in fictional stories based upon non-fictional events. Further uses of the techniques introduced in the first seven chapters are looked at in more detail in the last five chapters.
The 12 sections are as follows:
- 1. Mystery of the Vanishing Plastics
- Undercover Work
- 2. The Clue of the Cashbox
- Fingerprint Proof
- 3. The Case of the Shabby Shoes
- Shoe Prints, Tire Marks, Plaster Casts
- 4. The Safecracker's Calling Card
- Identifying and Capturing the Fugitive
- 5. The Secret of the Empty Page
- The Powers of Observation and Memory
- 6. The Clue of the Broken Pencil
- Search of Crime Scene and Suspect
- 7. The Trail Beyond the Smoke Screen
- Surveillance
- 8. Dictionary of a Detective
- Special Language of Criminals, Police Terminology
- 9. High Danger
- Drug Abuse
- 10. Innocent Until Proved Guilty
- A Look at the Law
- 11. The Suspect and His Shadow
- Secret Watch
- 12. No Two of Them Alike
- Visible and Latent Fingerprints
TriviaEdit
- The title of this revised edition is slightly different then the original edition of the book, the original is entitled The Hardy Boys' Detective Handbook and the revised is entitled The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook.
- The Detective Handbook was just one of the 39 Hardy Boys to be revised between 1959 and 1973, but the Detective Handbook is the only book to be acknowledged as such on the cover.
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