The Undercover Brothers is about two teenage brother detectives, Frank and Joe Hardy, who are the sons of world-famous PIFenton Hardy. Although there are many similarities in this series to the previous Hardy Boys series, there are also many changes, for example:
The Hardy boys are undercover agents for American Teens Against Crime (ATAC), a top-secret government organization, co-founded by their father, and are solving more realistic and violent crimes.[1] Since it is a top-secret organization, Frank and Joe often need to make up excuses to convince their mother and aunt to let them go to places.
The books in this series are written in a first-person narrative style with Frank and Joe alternating chapters and often interrupting each other.[1]
The Hardy boys' aunt's name is shortened from Gertrude to Trudy. It is revealed in Hurricane Joe why she shortened her name to Trudy. This version is much younger than the character in other Hardy Boys series.
The Hardy boys' long-time girlfriends, Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, appear in the books, but only as platonic friends of the boys instead of love interests. Other friends from the original series are occasionally mentioned but never play important roles as they did in the past.
The Hardy Boys Secret Files is a series begun in 2010 by the publisher Simon & Schuster under their Aladdin imprint. It features the Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, as grade-school detectives. Three new titles are published yearly as paperback books and eBooks. This series ended in 2015 and was replaced by the Hardy Boys Clue Book series.
Trouble at the Arcade
The Missing Mitt
Mystery Map
Hopping Mad
A Monster of a Mystery
The Bicycle Thief
The Disappearing Dog
Sports Sabotage
The Great Coaster Caper
A Rockin' Mystery (October 2012)
Robot Rumble (April 2013)
Lights, Camera...Zombies! (August 2013)
Balloon Blow-Up (December 2013)
Fossil Frenzy (April 2014)
Ship of Secrets (August 2014)
Camping Chaos (December 2014)
The Great Escape (April 2015)
Medieval Upheaval (August 2015)
The Race Is On (December 2015)
Titles, authorship, and publication dates
#
Title
Pub.
1
Trouble at the Arcade
April 27, 2010
2
The Missing Mitt
3
Mystery Map
August 17, 2010
4
Hopping Mad
September 14, 2010
5
A Monster of a Mystery
April 5, 2011
6
The Bicycle Thief
August 9, 2011
7
The Disappearing Dog
October 18, 2011
8
Sports Sabotage
April 3, 2012
9
The Great Coaster Caper
August 7, 2012
10
A Rockin' Mystery
October 16, 2012
11
Robot Rumble
April 2, 2013
12
Lights, Camera ... Zombies!
August 6, 2013
13
Balloon Blow-Up
December 3, 2013
14
Fossil Frenzy
April 29, 2014
15
Ship of Secrets
August 5, 2014
16
Camping Chaos
December 2, 2014
17
The Great Escape
April 21, 2015
18
Medieval Upheaval
August 4, 2015
19
The Race Is On
December 1, 2015
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery
A crossover spin-off series with the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective series. The stories are told in the first person, alternating chapters between Frank's or Joe's and Nancy's perspective. The first title in the series acts as an introduction between the characters. This series published one title per year until the end of the Girl Detective and Undercover Brothers series in 2012.
Titles and publication dates
#
Title
Released
1
Terror on Tour
June 5, 2007
2
Danger Overseas
May 6, 2008
3
Club Dread
May 5, 2009
4
Gold Medal Murder
July 6, 2010
5
Bonfire Masquerade
July 12, 2011
6
Stage Fright
July 10, 2012
Graphic novels
In the spring of 2005, NBM launched its new imprint, Papercutz, with the publication of two three-part comic book series; Nancy Drew (The Demon of River Heights) and The Hardy Boys (The Ocean of Osyria).[3] After the completion of both series, The Demon of River Heights series and The Ocean of Osyria series were both collected into 92 pages graphic novels, becoming the first titles in the Nancy Drew graphic novel series and the Hardy Boys graphic novel series respectively.
All other titles in both series have been made in graphic novel format only and are published every three months.
List of graphic novels series titles
2005
1. The Ocean of Osyria
When Chet Morton's Internet account is hacked into and used to bid on a stolen artifact, the Ocean of Osyria, best friends Frank and Joe Hardy, with girlfriends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, head to Osyria, the location of the auction, to clear Chet's name.
2. Identity Theft
The brothers investigate a very strange mystery about a popular, wealthy teenage girl's stolen identity.
3. Mad House
4. Malled
The brothers and a few foreign shoppers are locked up in Bayport's new shopping mall deliberately by a mysterious man who sabotaged the mall with many traps. The 'prisoners' must struggle to survive together, find a way to escape, and find and stop the man with a few ATAC gadgets the brothers have before it is too late.
^Lobdell, Scott; Marcondes, Paulo H.; Rendon, Daniel; Lima, Sidney (8 November 2016). "To die or not to die". Hardy boys adventures 1. New York. ISBN9781629916071. OCLC932060662.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Lobdell, Scott; Marcondes, Paulo H.; Rendon, Daniel; Lima, Sidney (8 November 2016). "Hardy Day's Night". Hardy boys adventures 1. New York. ISBN9781629916071. OCLC932060662.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
