Enter the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew: The Hardy Boys are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives. They live in the city of Bayport on Barmet Bay with their father, detective Fenton Hardy, their mother, Laura Hardy, and their Aunt Gertrude.

The characters were created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm, and the books have been written by many different ghostwriters over the years. The books are published under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.

I used to try and understand  the books but succeeded in doing so pretty well late. I still remember ‘The Aztec Warrior’ which my grandfather brought me as a gift on my B-Day.

There is a list of all Hardy Boys till we were in 10^th Std.

1. The Tower Treasure 2. The House on the Cliff 3. The Secret of the Old Mill 4. The Missing Chums 5. Hunting for Hidden Gold 6. The Shore Road Mystery 7. The Secret of the Caves 8. The Mystery of Cabin Island 9. The Great Airport Mystery 10. What Happened at Midnight 11. While the Clock Ticked 12. Footprints under the Window 13. The Mark on the Door 14. The Hidden Harbor Mystery 15. The Sinister Signpost 16. A Figure in Hiding 17. The Secret Warning 18. The Twisted Claw 19. The Disappearing Floor 20. Mystery of the Flying Express 21. The Clue of the Broken Blade 22. The Flickering Torch Mystery 23. The Melted Coins 24. The Short-Wave Mystery 25. The Secret Panel 26. The Phantom Freighter 27. The Secret of Skull Mountain 28. The Sign of the Crooked Arrow 29. The Secret of the Lost Tunnel

30. The Wailing Siren Mystery 31. The Secret of Wildcat Swamp 32. The Crisscross Shadow 33. The Yellow Feather Mystery 34. The Hooded Hawk Mystery 35. The Clue in the Embers 36. The Secret of Pirates' Hill 37. The Ghost at Skeleton Rock 38. The Mystery at Devil's Paw 39. The Mystery of the Chinese Junk 40. Mystery of the Desert Giant 41. The Clue of the Screeching Owl 42. The Viking Symbol Mystery 43. The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior 44. The Haunted Fort 45. The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge 46. The Secret Agent on Flight 101 47. Mystery of the Whale Tattoo 48. The Arctic Patrol Mystery 49. The Bombay Boomerang 50. Danger on Vampire Trail 51. The Masked Monkey 52. The Shattered Helmet 53. The Clue of the Hissing Serpent 54. The Mysterious Caravan 55. The Witchmaster's Key 56. The Jungle Pyramid 57. The Firebird Rocket 58. The Sting of the Scorpion

Of Course let’s not forget Chet who is ever hungry.

I remember someone saying that Abhijit read Hardy Boys books only and not Nancy Drew books because the later were sissy books not meant for boys. J

The brothers nominally attend high school in Bayport, where they are in the same grade, but school is rarely mentioned in the books and never hinders the Hardys in solving mysteries. In the older stories, the Hardy Boys' cases often are linked to the confidential cases their detective father is working on. He sometimes asks them for help, while at other times they stumble upon villains and incidents that are connected to his cases. Their girl friends were girlfriends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton (Chet's sister). Frank had dark hair; Joe was blond."  In general, however, "Frank was the thinker while Joe was more impulsive, and perhaps a little more athletic. The two boys are infallibly on good terms with each other and never engage in sibling rivalry.