Kidnapping, bank robberies, boat chases: It's just another day in the life of Frank and Joe Hardy, America's favorite young detectives! In this adventure, the Hardy Boys race to track down their friends who vanished without a trace one stormy afternoon. Can the Hardy Boys unravel the mystery before their chums disappear forever? This is a reprint of the 1928 first edition of The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, without cuts or censorship, as originally written by Leslie McFarlane under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.