The Great Airport Mystery (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, Book 9)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Carpentieri 1955A-41. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners and a few closed tears, ink owner stamp on front flyleaf. 1930 Hard Cover. iv, 210 pp. Beige tweed boards, dark brown titles, orange Gretta endpapers. #9 in the Hardy Boys series. Valuable electronic parts containing platinum are being stolen from shipments made by Stanwide Mining Equipment's cargo planes, and Frank and Joe are called upon to assist their world-renowned detective father solve the baffling case. While posing as Stanwide employees, the boys look into the truth behind the chief pilot's death at sea. The puzzling trail of clues leads the young sleuths to an uninhabited Caribbean island, but the final, and most startling, discovery is made in the boys' home town of Bayport.