Mystery of the Phantom Heist

Informationen zum Autor Franklin W. Dixon is the author of the ever-popular Hardy Boys books. KEYED UP 1 FRANK YOU’VE GOT TO SEE THIS, FRANK!” JOE said. “You too, Chet. It’s totally sick.” Help, I thought as my brother held up his prized possession, a tablet, for the gazillionth time. Not another lame clip on YouTube! It was the last thing I wanted to look at as we sat inside the swanky Peyton mansion. I wanted to check out the two slick cabin cruisers docked outside the bay window! “Will you give us a break already, Joe?” I told him. “I think we’ve seen enough skateboarding squirrels and break-dancing babies to last a lifetime.” Our friend Chet Morton cracked a smile. “Yeah, but those rapping sock puppets you showed us before were pretty sick,” he admitted. “Got any more of those?” Joe shook his head. “Check it out—it’s serious stuff,” he said, practically shoving the tablet in our faces. “You, serious?” I joked. “Since when?” Joe knew what I meant. Our ages were only one year apart, but our personalities—worlds apart. Joe was always high-strung, fast-talking, and unpredictable. Me—I’m more the strong, silent type. At least that’s what I like to think. “Will you look at the clip already?” Joe urged. “I can’t keep it on pause forever.” He hadn’t put down that fancy new tablet since he got it for his birthday. I couldn’t really blame him. We couldn’t have smartphones until we were in college, so the tablet was the next best thing. It surfed the Web, got e-mails—even took pictures and videos. Speaking of videos . . . “Okay,” I sighed. “But if I see one squirrel or sock puppet—it’s over.” Chet and I leaned forward to watch the clip. There were no skateboarding squirrels or sock puppets—just a clerk at a fast-food take-out window, handing a paper bag to a customer. The clerk looked about sixteen or seventeen. The person behind the wheel had his back to the camera, which was probably being held by someone in the passenger seat. “Bor-ing!” Chet sighed. “Wait, here it comes,” Joe said. He turned up the volume just as the clerk said, “Six dollars and seventy cents, please.” The driver reached out to pay. But then he yanked the lid off his jumbo cup and hurled what looked like a slushie all over the kid at the take-out window! “Keep the change!” the driver cackled before zooming off. I could hear another voice snickering—probably the creep filming the whole thing. I stared at the screen. “Definitely not cool,” I said. “And a perfectly good waste of a jumbo slushie,” Chet joked. “Not funny, Chet,” Joe said with a frown. “How did you find that clip, Joe?” I asked. “Lonny, a guy in my math class, forwarded it to me,” Joe explained. “Lonny was the poor clerk who got slushied.” “Did they ever find the guys who did it?” Chet asked. Joe shook his head and said, “The burger place called the cops, but so far the slushie slinger’s still on the loose.” “You mean it’s a—cold case?” Chet joked. “Cold . . . slushie—get it?” “That’s about as funny as those skateboarding squirrels, Morton,” I complained. “What we just saw was someone’s idea of a dumb prank.” “Yeah, but whose?” Joe asked. This time Chet heaved a big sigh. “Time out, you guys!” he said. “You promised your dad you were going to slow down the detective work, at least for now.” “Slow down?” Joe asked. & Zusammenfassung In this second book of a fresh approach to a classic series! Frank and Joe track down violent pranksters. Rich girl Lindsay Peyton is throwing the biggest and best Sweet Sixteen bash that Bayport has ever seen. But her party planning is off to a bad start when Frank and Joe discover that someone has keyed her very expensive car—an early birthday present—and has put the mean prank up o...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Franklin W Dixon, Franklin W. Dixon
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 8 a 12 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.02.2013
• EAN: 9781442422377
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-2237-7
• Pagine: 160
• Serie: Hardy Boys Adventures; Hardy Boys Adventures
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi