Chet Morton

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Chet Morton is a fictional character in The Hardy Boys book series by Franklin W. Dixon. He is a friend of Frank and Joe Hardy who gets involved in many of their adventures. He lives on a farm outside of Bayport and loves to eat. He has a liking for Aunt Gertrude's cooking, and often eats it while at the Hardys' house. In the books, he is described as red haired, described as being blond at least once, having a pug-like nose, being of stocky build, and driving a yellow jalopy called the Queen (similar to Moose Mason). It is also said in the books that he plays center on Bayport's high school varsity football team. He usually doesn't want to have anything to do with the boys' mysteries, but ends up helping them anyway. He is the older brother of Iola Morton, Joe Hardy's steady girlfriend.

Chet tends to pick up new hobbies in each book, and sometimes they are connected in some way to the mystery in the novel. One example can be seen in the book The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo in which the Hardy boys are deeply involved in a mystery of a missing valuable figurine that had been stolen years before by a gang of thieves who were known for having whale tattoos and using names of whales as aliases. In the book, Chet Morton's hobby is scrimshaw, and Chet uses his knowledge of whales and of scrimshaw to help the boys piece together the members of the gang.