Mystery of the Desert Giant [SEP] publisher
Mystery of the Desert Giant
Mystery of the Desert Giant is Volume 40 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by James Buechler in 1961.
Plot summary.
The Hardy Boys and Chet Morton search on the California desert for missing industrialist, Willard Grafton, and break up a gang of criminals intent on defrauding the US government.
Much of this book takes place in Blythe, California and it cites real, current locales, such
inked by a Plurn can return to normal via the same procedure.
- Hot-Diggidy Desert - A desert which is probably in neutral territory, as Auntie First once used it to conduct peace-talks with Russell.
- Rolling Hills - Hills with large grassy spheres rolling perpetually up and down. Again, the exact mechanism that keeps the balls rolling is a mystery.
- Equatorial Glaciers - Giant pillars of ice on tropical beach shores located at Under's equator and far away from the Kingdoms of Under and