This book, " The Sinister Signpost" by Franklin Dixon, is one of the legendary Hardy mysteries. The Hardy's encounter a race car crash, in the heart of Bayport City, because of a reflecting signpost. The Hardy's soon figure out that criminals want to steal a secret engine of one of the racers. The boys stake out the night before the race to capture the criminals. The Hardy's capture most of them but one escaped. The quote from the Hardy's, " No! We won't give up until we are finish!" They encountered their chance to catch the remaining criminal later in the story while their friend, Chet, goes on a ride in his race car. A car drives the wrong way and makes Chet crash. The unidentified car crashes near the Hardy's and the Hardy's capture the criminal and end the case.
First of all, the book described here is NOT the original version of the book. The original version revolves around race horses, not racecars. The book I just re-read for the first time since I was a child is the original version. I didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered liking this series when I was young, but I guess that's to be expected. But really, it drives me absolutely insane that so many of the original books from this series have been rewritten. Why is that necessary? Just write totally new ones instead of messing with the ones so many of us grew up with.
