We started reading through the Arctic Patrol mystery just as reports were coming through that Iceland was experiencing a major volcanic event. That would have been last month when that big crack in the earth split open Grindevik.
Anyway Arctic Patrol mystery, serendipity aside, is the second Hardy boys book here. You may have got House on the Cliff in America. For us its the Hardy's trip to the cold north. The boys, Chet Morton and Biff Hooper travel to Iceland to find one Rex Mar and say he's inherited $50,000 from someone who saved him back then. There is of course another mystery of a missing Astronaut training in the harsh lava landscape of Iceland's countryside. Gee I wonder if the two cases are related.
There seems to be quite a good bit on Iceland here. Some language and last name customs along with talk on cuisine and the ever present elves. You don't get much difference between the two editions. We get the term sod hut replaced which sounds like a step up from the naughty step, and a few UK spellings of words, but compared to the later books which have bugger all done to it, this seems like a veritable litany of changes. Finally thanks to my printer dying you were supposed to get a copy of the map of Iceland printed in the front of the book. Also another cat I drew in biro back in the day (he's called Leo).
Anyway you know the drill UK version here US version here.
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