The House on the Cliff/The Ghost at Skeleton Rock/The Sting of the Scorpion (Best of the Hardy Boys

This is an excellent beginning for the series. It introduces Frank and Joe, all their friends, and their parents, all of who will be continually seen in the books to follow. It also shows how the brothers get started on crime-fighting and how they know so much about solving cases. Not a lot of danger, but still a good read. There's a lot more about them in school in this book than later ones.

My 10 year old son was completely crushed when he finished the Percy Jackson series. On my dad's suggestion, I checked this out. Wow--first chapter--the motorcycle driving boys (who's father is a detective/lawyer) get run off the road. After that--there was no turning back. My son loves the old-fashioned language--(i.e. jalopy) he thinks it's hilarious.

Great books to read to my growing young kids. The chapters are very manageable and the action moves along nicely so there is always something to look forward to. The kids are really enjoying the stories.

The HardybBoys have grown up and have retained their ability to hold boys' attention with their awesome adventures. My son won't read any other series, but devours these like candy. He highly recommends them to all boys of middle school age!

When helping my grandson from Japan to read English, we started reading "The Tower Treasure" together. Even though it was written almost 100 years ago, we both enjoyed it and look forward to continuing the series.

I would highly recommend these books to any child that likes good clean books. I read them as a child and bought them years ago for my child. Knowing how much we both enjoyed them, I purchased the books again for my grandsons. Therefore, three generations in our family have now grown up with the Hardy Boys entertaining us.

This is the first book of an incredible early teens series; great to generate interests for young people to start reading at that age. Especially in hardcover, classic book to keep around for memories.

I love The Hardy Boys Mysterys. I initially got them for my grandson, but am reading them first. Once I start, I can't seem to put them down. Great books. Can't wait to hear what my grandson thinks of them.

I ordered these for my oldest son for Christmas and expecting paperbacks as the title describes them. They are nice, come in a box and are hardcover! yeayy . . . So nice, and unchanged from their original printings. *For those unfamiliar: they are great good moral/problem solving reading for youngsters (my son is 8 but I think they are aimed at more like 12-15).

CAVEAT EMPTOR!!

This is NOT, repeat NOT, the original 1927 "Tower Treasure". Frank was NOT eighteen in the original version. Adelia did NOT lend money to Mr Robinson in the original 1927 version. The illustrations alone tell the reader that this is NOT the original 1927 version.

I have nothing against this 1959 revision of the original story, but I wanted to get the ORIGINAL version on my Kindle. It had been my plan to get the original five stories (all in chronological order). I am glad I only bought the first one.\

If the store can produce the ORIGINAL VERSIONS of these fine stories, I shall be glad to purchase them.

Bought this for my 9 yr old grandson for Christmas stocking stuffer after remembering how much I enjoyed them in my youth (almost 70 yrs ago). He enjoyed it so much he asked where he could get more - a definite sigh of a great book ?

Just finished 're-reading the first Hardy Boys book "The Tower Treasure" by Franklin W. Dixon, published back in the 1940s, and gave it 3 stars. Written for teen-aged readers during a by-gone era, but still it was fun reading about the two sleuths and their "chums."

Hopefully, the reader will not mind if I wax nostalgic for a paragraph, but The Hardy Boys were an important part of my childhood. I got one book on the holidays and one for my birthday for some 5 years straight, and these were my entire personal library for some time. I owe all the thousands of books I have come to enjoy to a royal elephant, a detective pig, and Frank and Joe, the two inquisitive sons of Fenton Hardy. Now it is forty-some years later, and the temptation to see if I could go back again is simply too strong.
'The Tower Treasure' is the very first, in which Frank and Joe start out trying to track down a stolen car for a friend, and suddenly find themselves embroiled in a jewel theft at the Tower Mansion. The father of another of their friends is a suspect, and the boys join with their father in the effort to bring the right man to justice.
What makes these books work is that, while the plots are not particularly convolute, the books are peopled with many delightful characters and narrative. Adventures are had, wonderful secrets are divulged, the bad are punished and the good rewarded. In this day and age of equivocal messages, the clean, straightforward approach to life of Frank and Joe Hardy is like a breath of fresh air.
I found the book quite engaging, even after all these years. I was quite envious of the Hardys, who even had their own motorcycles, and I find flickers of the same feelings even today. After all, I still don't have a motorcycle. I wish I could have grown up solving mysteries and adventuring with my sibling and father, but books like 'The Tower Treasure' turned out to be the next think. I learned a lot from Frank and Joe, and I think those values are still worth promoting.

I have fond memories of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books from my childhood, but these really didn't age well. My son told me reading them felt like watching old black and white tv shoes on Nickelodeon.