Before I talk about this months book, I have some minor obscure news regarding The Children's Channel.
I've finally found the name of the music that went with the opening credits of Stories without words eastern European cartoon block.
It's one of those classical songs that you hear from time to time either in cartoons or used as filler, but I never knew the name of this legendary work. Now I can safely say the used Mendelssohn's Fruhlingslied as a signature tune. You can listen to it here.
Crisscross shadow.
We have a new book up for you, this time it's The Crisscross Shadow in both its UK and Original incarnations.
It's one of those revised editions, where the revised edit is like a cut for TV experience. You lose the Hardys receiving an invisible Ink threat. Quite a bit from the hand egg and lacrosse games. And finally the Sleuth's mechanical problems are removed entirely in the revised edit.
The story itself concerns the boys receiving a visit from a strange salesman, selling Indian leather goods and winds up nicking a photo of Fenton Hardy. He gets off due to a crooked lawyer pal and the boys try to track him down via the leather goods. It leads to a remote Indian tribe called the Ramapans* and their legend of the crisscross shadow ,where the deeds to their land is hidden.
It's also the story where Chet's grandad gets his Indian name of Eat-a-whole-moose.
Not a bad tale overall and, like I say, its one of the later canon issues that have a few revisions to update them, but are not that dissimilar. You can read both remake and original stories, here.
*Note both Ramapan and Pashunk tribes mentioned here in the book are fictional.
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