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Footprints Under the Window is Volume 12 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1933, purportedly by Leslie McFarlane ; however, the writing style is noticeably different from other books in the series known to have been written by McFarlane. [ 1 ]
The Hardy Boys track down the saboteurs who kidnapped their father, and have to keep them from blowing up a bridge near Boontown, Kentucky. The bridge is being built by Tony Prito's father's construction company. Mr Hardy is ill most of the story. The villains are mostly ex-crooks who want that area of the bridge for themselves.
Ducroy blames the boys because he lost his job and later he frames the boys for a mail robbery. Although they don't have an alibi they are bailed out of jail by Mr. Applegate (from The Tower Treasure) and Mr. Jefferson, the owner of Cabin Island (previous book). The Hardy boys overhear Ducroy and two other hoods planning a major air mail robbery.
Mr. Dalrymple arrives with the police and Amos falls to his death while trying to escape. The Hardy boys examine the device he was using and solve the mystery of how he managed to deliver the death threats to the secret room, as well as locating the stamps which Mr. Dalrymple's doppelgänger had stolen from Mr. Applegate.
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The Hardy boys are to locate a traffic signal that hums like someone singing faintly, and drive ten minutes from it in each direction, then investigate the area for a "secret panel". Fenton's mystery ends up intertwining with the Mead mansion and the master criminal, who's been carrying out a series of break-ins and thefts without triggering ...
The green truck the boys saw before passes them on the road and Joe sees the license plate number. Minutes later, the boys hear an explosion at Elekton Controls. The three friends go to the plant. The police chief gives them permission to search the grounds, but won’t let the boys go into the buildings out of concern for their safety.
Following the map, the Hardy boys recover the gold which leads to them being attacked by Black Pepper himself. They manage to get the upper hand and march back to town with both the outlaw and the gold, to later learn that Bart Dawson had believed Jadbury Wilson was dead and now that he knows differently he is willing to share the recovered gold.