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The Clue of the Broken Blade (Hardy Boys, Book 21) Reviews
The Hardy Boys Books : The Clue of the Broken Blade (Hardy Boys, Book 21) Reviews
| 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful  The Hardys Take Up Fencing, By This review is from: The Clue of the Broken Blade (The Hardy Boys, No. 21) (Hardcover) By coincidence I happened to be in one of California's wine regions when I read this book. Since a good portion of this book takes place in California's grape growing regions, I was able to imagine many of the scenes in this book quite well. Because of this coincidence, I found this book to be very enjoyable.The Hardy boys have taken up fencing. One day their fencing master, Ettore Russo, tells the boys that he must close the fencing school because he needs to find a piece of a sword that may hold the key to his inheritance. Intrigued, the boys follow clues that lead to California, where they believe the broken piece to be. Of course, at least one other person is also looking for the sword, and that person is stopping at nothing to be sure that person locates the sword first, even if it means someone else gets hurt. This story is relatively less complicated than many other Hardy Boys stories. To spice the story up a little the author added a subplot about... Read more 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  Diamond In The Ruff, By Scott Thiel (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Clue of the Broken Blade (The Hardy Boys, No. 21) (Hardcover) Published in 1942 - Although I rate this book a three star which denotes an average book, I cannot slander this book for any particular reason. In fact I cannot find anything wrong with it to any degree - except for this: There are other books in the series that are better and it would be unfair to them to give this volume the same high rating as them. Broken Blade was less breath taking, less action packed and less exciting than several other HB volumes, but I still regard this as a very good volume. The plot is about a search for part of a sword and a race against time as the Hardys and unscrupulous characters hunt for the same sword simultaneously. Their objectives are the same but the goals are different. Who will find the blade first? Broken Blade is one of the least talked about HB books. People rarely list it among their best or worst and it tends to go unnoticed by comparison. RATED B-REVISION: The 1970 revision was not as good as the first but I still regard it as a... Read more 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful Well Paced And Lots Of Action, By A Customer This review is from: The Clue of the Broken Blade (The Hardy Boys, No. 21) (Hardcover) This review concerns the original 1942 edition. Mr. Hardy's case of thieves stealing merchandise as it is being unloaded from ships leads Frank and Joe into another case concerning a broken sword blade. This book is well written, fast paced, has plenty of action and has a good beginning that quickly grabs the reader. My big problem with the book was that, while Mr. Hardy played a prominent role in this book, he was the only one of the other main characters of the series to do so, since most of the book was set outside of Bayport. Still, it was a really good book that most Hardy Boys fans should enjoy. |
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