The mystery of the samurai sword is the 58th book in the Hardy Boys series and concerns the visit to America of a reclusive tycoon Takashi Satoya. He disappears en route to his hotel from his limo and as Fenton Hardy is tasked with his security is unceremoniously dumped from this task detail .
There is a secondary plot of the theft of a katana from the Palmer Dade auction house also owned by Satoya Takashi. Fill in with a motorcycle gang plot and some insider dealing deep within Satoya's own company, and you have a pretty good story. The various plot points come together and play out with a big showdown with some yakuza thugs a biker gang and a very surprising ninja, that saves the day.
These later UK Hardy boys are word for word the same as the American releases, including spelling and terms. Angus and Robertson just reused the scripts without much localization, and apart from one line which could be from the text file I'm going from, has no real differences.
Anyway you can read the original here and UK version here.
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