When I was pre-teen I read all the Hardy Boys mysteries I could get hold of. Eventually I moved onward and upward - Nancy Drew. It's been many years now since dark haired suave Frank and light haired volatile Joe led me through the pages of a harrowing adventure. And it's been many years since the Franklin W. Dixon of those days gave way to newer unknown writers. The background and the social interaction are the same; father Fenton and mother keeping house with cantankerous Aunt Gertrude. Roly-P