Junk

 Not a junk tour but a tour on a junk

This is the 34th Hardy boys story and the boys have pitched in to buy a Chinese Junk to ferry people across the summer season. It seems that Jim Foy a Chinese pal of theirs has a lead on a cheap ship to buy and with a load of interest from various parties. You just know there is going to be a mystery attached to it.

This is the one that makes up to the Chinese community at large, for the way they were depicted in the original Footsteps Under the Window. No funny accents and no dragging up of a hapless Chinese here. The representation seems pretty good for the time, and it seems that this is the only book Jim was in. 

The gang is all here, Biff Hooper, Tony Prito (who's the same age as Frank here, 18) Chet Morton with a caving hobby that you know will be used in the mystery. Also Callie Shaw and Iola Morton get a look in, too. 

The junk they've bought is of course stolen and several parties want it back, Add in a mysterious doctor who's been robbing people, while passed out, this includes their aunt Gertrude, who can normally spot a wrong'un from several yards away. You have the making of a pretty good mystery. 

You can read it here.