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Footprints Under the Window

Volume #12 in the Hardy Boys Canon (1-58) series

Original edition (1933)

  • Ghostwriter: Leslie McFarlane (?)
  • Summary: The boys crack a human trafficking ring smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants into America.

Revised edition (1965)

  • Revision type: Completely rewritten; a couple of plot elements are retained, but the illegal immigrants are now refugees from South America and the main plot centres on the planned theft of a top-secret satellite camera. (More about revisions.)
  • Ghostwriter: David Grambs

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Gretta,
1933

Gillies,
1950

Nappi,
1965