Danger on Vampire Trail (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories)

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Summary: Misleading Title
Review: Frank, Joe, Chet and Biff go on a camping trip to the Rockies when Mr. Hardy asks them to track down a gang of credit card counterfeiters. Along the way they come across an Austrian mountain climber, a crazy man who believes he is related to King Arthur and a number of gangs that try to scare them off of the case. Most of this book is quite good; the story was fairly well written and it was fairly action-packed. I liked that there were three gangs after the Hardys and their friends. I found that it made it interesting trying to figure out who belonged to which gang and how they were all connected. The title is somewhat misleading, though, because the book has nothing to do with vampires and vampire bats play only a small role in the story. While most of the book deserves a four star rating, I gave the book three stars because the last chapter was really bad. It lacked excitement, was more silly than anything and was a big letdown to an otherwise good book.

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Summary: Original Art!
Review: One of the first I ever read. It still rocks. Biff! Chet! And the cover art is the same as when it first came out.

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Summary: CROOK TROUBLE ON VAMP TRAIL
Review: The Hardy's journey to the American rockies to break up a phony credit card scam. Poor cover art - but the book was action packed with a lot of interaction with the criminals. Among the higher volumes this has always been one of my prefered books. The majority of the book is spent near Vampire Trail camped at the foot of an apparent mountain or large hill. As boys enjoy camping in the great outdoors - it makes for an appealing read. RATED B-

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Summary: Good Book
Review: The Hardy's journey to the American rockies to break up a phony credit card scam. Poor cover art - but the book was action packed with a lot of interaction with the criminals. Among the higher volumes this has always been one of my prefered books. The majority of the book is spent near Vampire Trail camped at the foot of an apparent mountain or large hill. As boys enjoy camping in the great outdoors - it makes for an appealing read. RATED B-

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Summary: Average
Review: This was a good book, worth reading, as it is entertaining. I cannot rank it as a 4 or 5 star since it does not do justice those books that SHOULD be ranked as such. From bad to worst in the set it ranks around the middle. It is worth reading if you are a Hardy Boys fan.

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Summary: A good Read
Review: This was one of the better Hardy Boys written. The only reason that I am rating this book five stars is that it was consistently good with a few really good parts. The Boys are asked to take a task on counterfeiters who are duping the millionare card. They go camping out west but are consistently being harassed by 1, 2,or 3 gangs. They meet a lunatic who believes he is related to King Arthur, a Austrian mountain climber who along with Chet agreed that Biff had been bitten by a vampire, a pleasent man or is he so pleasent at one of their stops, and a scared young man. To find out more you have to read.