The Viking Symbol Mystery [SEP] series
The Viking Symbol Mystery
The Viking Symbol Mystery is Volume 42 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Alistair M. Hunter in 1963.
Plot summary.
The Hardy Boys and Chet Morton travel to Canada's Northwest Territories to recover a stolen Viking artifact (a runestone). They also smash a group of thieves robbing recreational lodges around the Great Slave Lake. They visit Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Edmonton, Alberta; Fort Smith, Northwest
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- 1953, "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", October 1953 (as "The World Series Murder")
- 1962, "Ellery Queen's Anthology", 1962 (as "The World Series Murder")
Publication history "Three Men Out".
- 1954, New York: The Viking Press, March 26, 1954, hardcover
- 1954, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), June 1954, hardcover
- 1955, London: Collins Crime Club, January 17, 1955