I wanted to get through something light and fun, so I picked up the next Hardy Boys in public domain and settled in for a quick read. Little did I know, this one was a bit different.
The boys want to spend the Christmas holiday camping on Cabin Island. They get permission from the owner (a man whose car they recovered in a previous mystery), but there's a man scoping out the island for his own nefarious purposes. And what's on the line? A missing stamp collection!
Okay, this one was fairly fun, but I did not like the whole fox hunt. I'm a critter person, so when we're hunting for tiny pieces of paper and shooting foxes in the same book, I'm a little upset. It wasn't just, "oh, hey, we shot a fox." No, they describe the hunt, the kill and took trophies back to the cabin. Blech.
Other than that, I suppose this was okay. The villain was mid-tier if you ask me. They even let him go in the end, since I guess the worst he did was hide some food and trespass. Maybe some menacing? He never got his greedy little hands on the stamp collection, so there wasn't any crime there. Anyway, this one sits lower to the middle on enjoyment for me. And yes, it's all because of the fox hunt...
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