Another set of books for you to be getting on with, this time it's The Secret Warning another Hardy boys mystery, and for once both the original, and rewrite are good stories.
The original has the Hardys track down Fenton Hardy's jacket, before getting to the main plot of helping out on a salvage gig off Reeds Landing. The boat is said to contain a fortune in gold and silver as well as a few other bits and pieces. They have access to a wonder camera in this that acts like a portable X-ray and primitive Go-pro all in one, Frank even sets it up as a kind of proto CCTV in order to catch a thief.
All in all not a bad story at all.
The rewrite, keeps the salvage angle but this time, the ship holds a priceless Egyptian deathmask made of solid gold. There is also the business of Captiain 'Pearly' Early's cane and to top it all off Fenton Hardy is kidnapped. Like I say, its not a bad rewrite, the mask is an enjoyable McGuffin in its own right and there is the couldn't happen today aspect in both stories (Joe Hardy blacking up as a disguise and Biff Hooper winning a Great Dane as a prize in a competition.) I'll let you work out which era of books those two appeared in.
Anyway Original here and rewrite here.
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