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The secret of the lost tunnel (1950 original; edició 1950)

de Franklin W. Dixon

Sèrie: The Hardy Boys (29)

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The Hardy boys travel to the Deep South to vindicate a long-dead Confederate general, disgraced during the Civil War because he was accused of stealing hidden gold belonging to a bank.
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Títol:The secret of the lost tunnel
Autors:Franklin W. Dixon
Informació:New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1968, c1950.
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Hindsight, of course, but it's easy to see how the United States still gets into trouble when it comes to talking about history. 'Secret of the Lost Tunnel' is full of mealy-mouthed half-truths, outright lies, and a grovelling reverence for the Confederacy. Civil War history, folks, get it right here.

The Hardy Boys are twiddling their thumbs in Bayport when there's a phone call. A man, calling himself Dr. Bush, says a man dressed as a United States General is about to ask their father for help on a treasure hunting case. Dr. Bush warns Frank the man is INSANE. Shortly thereafter there is another phone call. A woman tells Joe that if a Dr. Bush contacts them they should inform the POLICE.

There is a knock on the door.

The boys let in a man in uniform who introduces himself as General Smith. As Fenton Hardy is away, he decides to tell the boys his story so they can inform their father. The boys, who believed the man on the phone because he's...a man, I guess...treat the general as they would any lunatic, with civil good humor. It is only when their father unexpectedly comes home they find out General Smith is the genuine article.

Smith tells them about his grandfather, a Confederate General, and how a misplaced cartridge belt (likely stolen by an enemy spy [a Union man who's referred to as a villain, naturally]), led to the loss of a great deal of Confederate gold as well as money belonging to relatives on the Smith Plantation. Smith's grandfather was suspected of being a thief! It created a rift in the Smith family and the Smith Plantation eventually fell into ruin. Smith's father, also a general (they have a proud military history even if they're on the treasonous side), spent a great deal of time tracking down clues. It is now the current General Smith to absolve his family name. Not of treason to the United States, for losing that gold the Confederacy needed. Fenton has real work to do, so he sends his sons and Chet Morton off with the General.

'Lost Tunnel' has the expected bad plot of the boys constantly running into clues by chance, but they seem thicker then usual because of their constant belief in everything an adult tells them, even when that adult says something stupid like "I just bought the County Museum, get out of here!". They even go to Town Hall and the clerk tells them no sale took place and they go back and believe him, AGAIN, when he says the sale hasn't been registered yet. So. Leave this formerly public museum.

There are multiple lines where the General and the boys wax nostalgic about how wonderful the Smith Plantation must have been in its glory days. They even talk to an old black man, implied to be formerly enslaved but not outright said, who enjoyed talking to the boys about how his family continued to work at the plantation after emancipation and just loved it. The only telling line was a throwaway bit where the brothers acknowledge that the Plantation armory would have to be hidden - because whoever had the armory controlled the plantation - hints at any antebellum truth.

This original printing of 'Secret of the Lost Tunnel' is in many ways more insidious than the outright racist characterizations of other early books like 'Hidden Harbour' and 'Mark on the Door', because other than some bad dialect, its hiding its true colors in plain sight. At one point the Hardy Boys and Chet accidentally dig up a Confederate soldiers coffin, quickly rebury it and salute it. They didn't seem that impressed by all those Native American bones on Skull Mountain. What's the difference, I wonder? For fucks sake.

There's a lot more, but I'll leave it there.

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1 vota ManWithAnAgenda | Apr 6, 2023 |
It is a Hardy Boys book featuring Chet. He even has a chapter that features primarily him. If you read this title and you think it is slow, out of touch,you will be rewarded when you reach the chapter entitled "A Bombardment." It is a Chet classic. ( )
  seki | Jul 24, 2014 |
There was a man who was evil, 3 kids, and an adult.The man wanted to find the treasure in the lost tunnel. The kids are trying to stop him. - JG ( )
  mspioneer | Mar 13, 2008 |
Near fine condition, original cover
  JamesLemons | Apr 21, 2020 |
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