What happens if you mix lost media, a Greek exchange student and some dangerous criminals. You get the Shattered Helmet.
The main meat of this story is the search for an old Mycenaean Helmet used in a silent movie, The Persian Glory, and the Hardys and Chet Morton taking a course on film making at a community college and the arrival of a pen pal from Greece, Evangelos Papandropolous. Fenton has his own case trying to put away a crook by the name of Filbert Francisco "Twister" Gerrold. These cases of course, intersect. Add into the mix a campy and arrogant fellow student Leon Saffel and you have what amounts to a pretty decent adventure.
The nature of old nitrate film stock is of course explained (it's basically a fire hazard) and the search for the silent movie, the helm was used in of course has parallels to modern lost media searches for songs used such as Geronimo or the most mysterious song on the internet.
Finally as they have a Greek pen-pal, their search ends up on the Greek mainland with a further trip to Corfu, which is known as the childhood home of Gerald Durrell. We also went there for a holiday some time the the late 90's. You want a groan from us tell us how we walked miles to reach Paleokastritsa after going once on a coach trip. We also had to take a trip back on a small boat, like the one the Hardy's used.
Differences.
Not many and its mostly spelling. One thing not changed or picked up on is Rabbitbrush, which is a shrub in the Asteraceae family. Like a bushy version of Senecio or some of the New Zealand Daisy bushes.
You can read both the US and UK version here.
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