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The Crisscross Shadow (Hardy Boys, Book 32) Reviews
The Hardy Boys Books : The Crisscross Shadow (Hardy Boys, Book 32) Reviews
| 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  Swift Paced, By A Customer This review is from: The Crisscross Shadow (The Hardy Boys, No. 32) (Hardcover) Published in 1953, this was a swift paced adventure that took place primarily in the wilderness near an Indian reservation. The crooks were known early on in the book to the Hardys and there was a great amount of interaction. All & all I really enjoyed this book. The frontispiece ranks among my favorite, the cover was well drawn, the plot and mystery kept the reader turning from page to page. There actually was a good mystery here as the Hardys were in a race with the criminals to learn the location of the Crisscross Shadow. RATED B+ 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful those blessed blue bound books, By This review is from: The Crisscross Shadow (The Hardy Boys, No. 32) (Hardcover) In all your life, in all the places you've lived, has any touch of interior design or decoration ever looked better than that long powder blue line of Hardy Boy book spines, with the little Frank & Joe cameo, did on your bookshelf when you were a kid? I thought not.The Hardy Boys were created, along with Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins and myriad others, by Edward L. Stratemeyer (1862-1930). He would then outline stories and farm them out to writers hired through his Stratemeyer Syndicate--which sounds like the literary equivalent of the Triangle Shirt Waist factory. The resulting stable of series must surely be the most read children's books of all time, even in this era of Goosebumps and Harry Potter. Frank and younger brother Joe are the sons of the renowned detective Fenton Hardy, who always seems to be away on an important case. Between attending class and winning football games for Bayport High, the boys manage to investigate their own fair share of... Read more  When Being 'Good' Wasn't Considered a Joke ..., Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The Crisscross Shadow (The Hardy Boys, No. 32) (Hardcover) I have now read 23 of these wonderful books by Franklin W. Dixon, and The Crisscross Shadow ranks among my favorites. There are the usual 'Bad Guys' here, but these crooks are particularly rotten to the core! And it is this crookedness - as opposed to the goodness and caring of the Hardys - that leads to several (literal!) cliff hangers within this story.And this is what I love about Dixon's books: They display to their readers a time when goodness, thoughtfulness, honor, respect, and caring were not seen as something to mock, but something to hold up as a model for (particularly young) members of society. My wife and I have given the first 15 of these books to some friends who have just given birth to a beautiful baby boy (it'll be a while before he can read them, of course!), and the remaining 8 to our seven year old nephew. We hope that these books will be able to transport them - in some small way - to a time when the virtues listed above were something to be cherished... Read more |
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