Mystery of the Whale Tattoo

Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
Mystery of the Whale Tattoo  
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Author(s) Franklin W. Dixon
Country United States
Language English
Series Hardy Boys
Genre(s) Detective, Mystery novel
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date 1968
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 174 pp
ISBN 0-448-08947-5
OCLC Number 437427
Preceded by The Secret Agent on Flight 101
Followed by The Arctic Patrol Mystery

Mystery of the Whale Tattoo is Volume 47 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Jerrold Mundis in 1968.[1]

Plot summary

This story is set in and around Bayport as well as briefly in Mystic Seaport. The boys are hired by a traveling carnival to spot pick-pockets. This ties in well with their other job where the boys try to help their detective father by tracking down the location of an informant trying to sell information about a valuable object that has gone missing. The main lead is that the person has called from a public telephone on the fair grounds. All of their eventual suspects are noted for having tattoos of a whale on them.Chet Morton also uses his new hobby, scrimshaw, to piece up members of the gang.

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