The Twisted Claw (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories Book 18)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Gretta, J. Clemens; Laune, Paul. Carpentieri 1956B-29. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with a couple tiny closed tears, small tape repair on rear jacket edge, ink owner stamp on front flyleaf. 1939 Hard Cover. iii, [1], 217, [1] pp. 8vo. Light brown tweed boards, dark brown titles, orange Gretta endpapers, frontispiece by Paul Laune. #18 in The Hardy Boys Mystery series. "A series of museum thefts launch the Hardy Boys on this baffling mystery. Rare collections of ancient pirate treasure are being stolen, so Frank and Joe are asked to stake out the Black Parrot, a suspicious freighter docked in Bayport Harbor. This whirlwind chase after a self-styled pirate king in the Caribbean stronghold of the Empire of the Twisted Claw makes a gripping tale of suspense and high adventure.