

In 2005, The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers replaced the original series.

The biggest changes came in 1987, when Simon & Schuster launched a new series, The Hardy Boys Casefiles, which saw the Hardy brothers battle terrorists, work with government agencies, and investigate murders.
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Throughout the 1980s, the tone of the series again changed, when the Stratemeyer Syndicate was bought by Simon & Schuster in 1984, the company who took over publishing The Hardy Boys, from Grosset & Dunlap, five years earlier. Stories were modernized, simplified, shortened, and some characters' personalities were even changed. Beginning in 1959, the original Hardy Boys novels were revised. Īlthough Stratemeyer's basic premise - two boy detectives fighting against crime and for justice - has remained the same over the years, many elements of series have changed, over the years.

It is the all-time best-selling, and longest running series for boys. The original young adult novel series, a creation of Edward Stratemeyer and his Stratemeyer Syndicate, debuted in 1927, with Grosset & Dunlap's publication of the first three volumes, and ran until it was discontinued in 2005, with Simon & Schuster's publication of the 190th volume. The Hardy Boys is a entertainment franchise, based around the adventures of fictional crime-fighting brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy. The first book in The Hardy Boys, The Tower Treasure For other uses, see The Hardy Boys (disambiguation).
