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Summary: the action story
Review: Hi my name is Ryan.The Secret of the Old Mill is a really good book.In the story Frank and Joe descover conterfeit $20 dollar bills and a company called Eleckton is making them.The hardys drive over in the Queen and Frank and Joe descover a secret door.Will Frank and Joe solve the conterfeit mystery? Read the book to find out.I recomend this book for people who like stories with a lot of excitement.
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Summary: An Interesting Book
Review: Like The Tower Treasure and unlike The House On The Cliff The Secret Of The Old Mill is sweat.It isn't one of the best Hardy boys books but it is still a great book.Belive me All of The Hardy Boys books will keep you coming back for more.
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Summary: The Best Hardy Boys Book
Review: My favorite Hardy Boys book is the Secret of the Old Mill. I loved the part when Ken Blake fell into the river and Frank and Joe jumped into the river to save Ken Blake. I also loved the part when Frank, Joe, and Chet were in the Sleuth and Frank pulled the wires from the engine to stop the boat. I think that the Secret of the Old Mill is the best Hardy Boys book I have read.
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Summary: Search for the old, original version instead.
Review: The "Hardy Boys" books that you can buy at stores and on this site today are not the original stories. All the books were rewritten a few decades ago with two goals in mind: to dumb them down, and to make them more politically correct. The first goal was thought necessary because modern kids couldn't read as well; the second, because some of the books contained stereotypes unacceptable to modern sensibilities. The problem is that in making these changes, the stories were left far less interesting, and far less well written, than the originals.
I recently found a copy of the original "Secret of the Old Mill". It is far, far superior to the version people are reviewing here. And that story, at least, contained no offensive stereotypes.
You can find the original versions at used book stores (I found "Secret of the Old Mill" in good shape for seven bucks), and there is an online company that sells re-issues of the originals (I won't name it on Amazon's site, but you can search for it).
Find the originals and read them -- it's worth the effort!
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Summary: A Rich and Luminous Triple Decker
Review: The Secret of the Old Mill is disconcertingly lengthy, has little of laconic intellect, contains tedious catalogues of scarecly developed characters, exhibits lapses in stylistic consistency, and often verges on melodrama. Yet despite all of this, it is a vibrant and scathing portrait of mid-20th century Bayport society and a luxuriant horde of nuanced characterizations and delightfully fascinating personas. Who can resist the manipulative charms of the cunning Frank Hardy, the author's wry yet ambiguous account of the foolish Paul, the pompous arrogance of the witless Ken Blake? The novel is enriched with refreshingly orignal characterizations and improvizations which converge within the context of a festival of luxuriously self-important peoples delightfully naive at their own vapidity. The compelling lives of Frank and Joe weave through the narrative and bind it with textual unity even within the context of a tale spilling over with an astounding diversity. Stubbornly "modern", instantly readable and blessed with a sense of interest and immediacy, The Secret of the Old Mill truly is a landmark in American fiction, and a novel worthy of its lofty reputation.
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Summary: Can the counterfeiters be stopped before they fleece Bayport
Review: This review is of the 1962 Revised Version of "The Secret of the Old Mill". The first 38 titles in the series were revised over the course of 15 years (some with minor changes, others were completely re-written). "The Secret of the Old Mill" is the third Hardy Boys mystery.Counterfeit money is being passed around Bayport. Chet Morton, the best friend of the Hardys, makes change of twenty dollars for a stranger and when he tries to purchase a microscope he learns that the bill is counterfeit. When the boys bring the bill into the police station, they learn that the chief has known about the counterfeits being passed but is keeping it quiet so as to not alert the criminals. The Hardys start some investigating on their own. Threats are made to the Hardys telling them to get off the case; but are the threats about the counterfeit case or the secret mystery that their father, Fenton Hardy, is investigating? Reading the Hardy Boys as an adult is a nostalgic pleasure. I loved these books as a child and remember so much from when I read them years ago. What makes these books special is that I can enjoy them almost as much now as I did back then. "The Secret of the Old Mill" remains a good Hardy Boys mystery and a great story. It is fast paced and always interesting. I remember that after I read this book as a child, I started checking all of my money (such as it was) to see if it was counterfeit. That's the mark of a good story, that it can make a child interested in what is around him and comparing it to what was learned in the book. -Joe Sherry
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Summary: Can the counterfeiters be stopped before they fleece Bayport
Review: This review is of the 1962 Revised Version of "The Secret of the Old Mill". The first 38 titles in the series were revised over the course of 15 years (some with minor changes, others were completely re-written). "The Secret of the Old Mill" is the third Hardy Boys mystery. Counterfeit money is being passed around Bayport. Chet Morton, the best friend of the Hardys, makes change of twenty dollars for a stranger and when he tries to purchase a microscope he learns that the bill is counterfeit. When the boys bring the bill into the police station, they learn that the chief has known about the counterfeits being passed but is keeping it quiet so as to not alert the criminals. The Hardys start some investigating on their own. Threats are made to the Hardys telling them to get off the case; but are the threats about the counterfeit case or the secret mystery that their father, Fenton Hardy, is investigating? Reading the Hardy Boys as an adult is a nostalgic pleasure. I loved these books as a child and remember so much from when I read them years ago. What makes these books special is that I can enjoy them almost as much now as I did back then. "The Secret of the Old Mill" remains a good Hardy Boys mystery and a great story. It is fast paced and always interesting. I remember that after I read this book as a child, I started checking all of my money (such as it was) to see if it was counterfeit. That's the mark of a good story, that it can make a child interested in what is around him and comparing it to what was learned in the book. -Joe Sherry
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Summary: The Heart Pounding action Packed book!
Review: This series of books by Franklin Dixon was my favorite reading material when I was a youngster.In this book the Hardy Boys are determined to find out the secret behind an old mill.They finally
gain entrance to the mill and uncover a counterfeiting conspiracy. They also discover a matter of national security
that their father is working on.This was another good book by Franklin Dixon.As far as quality reading for youngsters the
Hardy Boys series is the answer.
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