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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 Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared was released as a hardback and audiobook in 2009, and as a paperback in 2010. [1] It became the best selling book in Sweden in 2010, and by July 2012 had sold three million copies worldwide. [2] The audiobook, read by the actor Björn Granath, won the Iris Ljudbokspris award in ...
In this chapter we learn that Anwar faces discrimination because he is black and Egyptian, a duality that Xanther has trouble understanding. She also mentions her friends Mayumi, Josh, Kle, Bayard, and Cogs, as well as the boy who bullies her, Dendish. She talks to Dr. Potts about Kle's younger brother Phinneas, who has tried to kill himself twice.
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.
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.
The novel alternates between two voices: the first being Carthew Yorsten, a Texan realtor accompanied by his two sons (ages 7 and 9) who are having a tourist-style breakfast at Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower on September 11, 2001; the second, the voice of the author writing the story while having breakfast at a restaurant atop Tour ...
While investigating Mr. Cardillo, the boys find an Indian ring with a strange crest on it and Fenton Hardy receives a threatening letter telling him to "beware of the mark on the door!" The Hardy boys, their father, and their friend Chet Morton fly to Mexico where they find a band of Indians and a strange oil smuggling operation using submarines.
The Hardy Boys help their detective father, Fenton Hardy, search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the Firebird rocket from the Woomera Test Range. They are threatened multiple times, but still do not give up with their lives at risk. Frank and Joe Hardy aid their father and others.