The Shattered Helmet
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| Author | Franklin W. Dixon |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Hardy Boys |
| Genre(s) | Detective, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
| Publication date | 1973 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 180 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-448-08952-1 |
| Preceded by | The Masked Monkey |
| Followed by | The Clue of the Hissing Serpent |
The Shattered Helmet is Volume 52 in the original The Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset & Dunlap.
[edit] Plot summary
Danger is the name of the game when the Hardys agree to help their pen pal from Greece, Evangelos Pandropolos, search search for a priceless, ancient Greek helmet. Years ago, Evan's uncle had loaned it to a Hollywood movie company for use in a silent motion picture, The Persian Glory, for a role in the movie, but the helmet was lost after the movie was done.
At Hunt College, where Evan, Frank, Joe and Chet Morton are taking a summer course in film-making, the boys are harassed by Leon Saffel whose harassments get more and more vicious. All the while a gang is trying to force Mr. Hardy to give up his investigations of a national crime syndicate and also trying to find the helmet, which after speaking to Evan's billionaire uncle, may have belonged to King Agamemnon making the helmet even more valuable.
The clues that the Hardys unearth keep them on the move from their college campus to California and to Greece. In a sizzling climax the Hardys, Evan and Chet match wits with their powerful enemies once they reach the island of Corfu in Greece.after ther defeated them the hardy boys got back the helmet to the right owner
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