The Melted Coins (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories Book 23)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Gretta, J. Clemens; Laune, Paul. Carpentieri 1955A-20. Very good in good jacket. 2 inch open tear along jacket spine head (closes up nicely under fresh mylar), a few small closed tears, ink owner stamp on half-title page. 1944 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 215, [1] pp. 8vo. Light brown tweed boards, dark brown titles, orange Gretta endpapers, frontispiece by Paul Laune. #23 in The Hardy Boys Mystery series. "Frank and Joe Hardy suspect that their best friend Chet Morton is the victim of a summer school swindle and offer to help get his money back. While probing a baffling burglary at the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State they investigate Zoar College located nearby. A startling connection between the Zoar College swindle and the theft of the Seneca's gold tribal relic Spoon Mouth propels the teenage sleuths into a series of perplexing and dangerous situations.