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The Clue of the Hissing Serpent

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The Clue of the Hissing Serpent
AuthorFranklin W. Dixon
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Hardy Boys
GenreDetective, mystery
PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages181 pp
ISBN0-448-08953-X
OCLC1009042
LC ClassPZ7.D644 Cm
Preceded byThe Shattered Helmet 
Followed byThe Mysterious Caravan 

The Clue of the Hissing Serpent is Volume 53 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Andrew E. Svenson in 1974.[1]

Plot summary

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The Hardy brothers and Chet meet a wealthy balloonist named Albert Krassner, who is in possession of the Ruby King, a valuable life-sized chess piece that is the prize for a chess tournament. The boys soon learn that a gang wants to steal the Ruby King. Then the Ruby King mysteriously disappears from the Krassner safe, sending the Hardy Boys to Hong Kong. There they capture the gang and find the Ruby King.

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