Book 1, Ch. 6

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 6: The Robbery

 

Frank, Joe, Chet, Biff, Tony, Jerry and Phil set out at once to search the woods thoroughly for the car. To Chet’s delight, the Queen is found sitting in a large clearing. Parading home with jalopy, truck and motorcycles, they hear the shocking news that the Tower Mansion has been robbed! Mr. Hardy is already on the case. He reports that the safe was opened and $40,000 in jewels and notes is gone. Mr. Hurd Applegate, the surly owner of the mansion, takes the Hardys to the Tower to investigate, all the while complaining that he is certain his caretaker, Henry Robinson, is the thief. Frank and Joe are appalled. Henry is the father of their good friend, Slim Robinson!

Book 1, Ch. 5

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 5: The Hunt Is Intensified

Frank carefully scrapes paint from the jalopy in question, only to find it was previously blue, not yellow like the Queen. Disappointed, the boys return home and resolve to launch a massive search for the jalopy. They scour the entire area around Bayport with their friends Biff, Tony, Phil, Jerry and, of course, Chet. Still no Queen! But there is time for a picnic lunch in the park at Willow Grove. The other guys nap but Joe won’t give up. Sure enough, in the woods nearby, he finds a tire . . . with a familiar tread!

Book 1, Ch. 4

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 4: Red vs. Yellow

Failing to catch the prowler, the three young detectives search the barn. They are surprised to find a gray wig left behind on the barn floor! And Chet’s spare tire is missing! To their surprise, Oscar Smuff, a self-described investigator, calls and offers Chet information on where the stolen car is—for a price! The boys decide to go along with Smuff. He takes them to a used car lot, where he proudly points to a jalopy, but it’s the wrong color. “The thieves painted it,” he proclaims.

Book 1, Ch. 3

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 3: The Threat

As soon as the teen detectives arrive home, they fill their father in on the ferry-boat hold-up and Chet’s stolen car. Fenton Hardy, a world-class detective himself, suggests that the boys inquire at wig shops around town to find out where the thief got his red wig. At Schwartz’s costume shop, Frank models a skeleton but finds no clues about the wig. The next day, as Chet entertains Frank and Joe for lunch, he receives a threatening telephone call telling him to give up the hunt for his car. At that moment, the boys see a furtive figure sneaking away from Chet’s barn!

Book 1, Ch. 2

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 2: The Holdup

Frank, Joe, and Chet set out to look for Chet’s jalopy, the Queen. Neither the farmers in the cabbage field nor Callie Shaw can tell them where the car went. At the police station, the ferryboat ticket-man is reporting a robbery, by someone driving a jalopy! But was the thief’s hair red or brown? Stay tuned!

Book 1, Ch. 1

The Tower Treasure

Chapter 1: Speeding Car

In the first chapter of The Tower Treasure, Frank and Joe Hardy are almost run down by a blue sedan while out on their motorcycles. Reaching Willowville safely, they deliver their dad’s papers. On the way home to Bayport, the two young detectives are astonished to discover the same blue sedan – this time turned over in the ditch! The driver is nowhere to be found. Getting back on their motorbikes, Frank and Joe stop off at their friend Chet Morton’s house, only to be surprised again – Chet’s jalopy has been stolen!