Book details

What Happened at Midnight

Volume #10 in the Hardy Boys Canon (1-58) series

Original edition (1931)

• Ghostwriter: Leslie McFarlane
• Summary: Joe is kidnapped as the clock strikes midnight; after his rescue, the boys travel to New York in pursuit of a ring of diamond smugglers.

Revised edition (1967)

• Revision type: Completely rewritten; some plot elements retained, but new main plot involves the theft of a valuable invention. (More about revisions.)
• Ghostwriter: Tom Mulvey

Cover art (click thumbnail to enlarge)

Rogers, 1931

Laune(?), 1946

Nappi, 1967