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The Clue of the Broken Blade

Volume #21 in the Hardy Boys Canon (1-58) series

Original edition (1942)

  • Ghostwriter: John Button
  • Summary: The boys solve a series of truck thefts and locate Arthur Barker's stolen swords.

Revised edition (1969)

  • Revision type: Completely rewritten; some plot elements are retained, but the new story involves a gang of bank robbers who are searching for the missing half of a sword belonging to the family of the Hardy Boys' fencing instructor. (More about revisions.)
  • Ghostwriter: Richard Deming

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Laune,
1942

Leone,
1962

Nappi,
1967

Nappi,
1970