Dungeons & Detectives

  #9 The Curse of the Ancient Emerald

  #10 Tunnel of Secrets

  #11 Showdown at Widow Creek

  #12 The Madman of Black Bear Mountain

  #13 Bound for Danger

  #14 Attack of the Bayport Beast

  #15 A Con Artist in Paris

  #16 Stolen Identity

  #17 Gray Hunter’s Revenge

  #18 The Disappearance

  COMING SOON:

  #20 A Treacherous Tide

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin paperback edition October 2019

  Text copyright © 2019 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Cover illustration copyright © 2019 by Kevin Keele

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  Series designed by Karin Paprocki

  Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Dixon, Franklin W., author

  Title: Dungeons and detectives / by Franklin W. Dixon.

  Description: First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition. | New York : Aladdin, [2019] |

  Series: Hardy boys adventures ; #19 | Summary: Frank and Joe Hardy search a mysterious castle for clues to a stolen, extremely valuable comic book.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018059332 (print) | LCCN 2018061201 (eBook) |

  ISBN 9781534421073 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534421066 (hc) | ISBN 9781534421059 (pbk.)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Lost and found possessions—Fiction. | Comic books, strips, etc.—Fiction. | Castles—Fiction. | Brothers—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.D644 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.D644 Dun 2019 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059332