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Country
  
United States

Series
  
The Hardy Boys

Pages
  
180 pp

Author
  
Franklin W. Dixon

Publisher
  
Grosset & Dunlap

3.7/5
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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1973

Originally published
  
1973

Preceded by
  
The Masked Monkey

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Followed by
  
The Clue of the Hissing Serpent

Genres
  
Detective fiction, Mystery

Similar
  
Franklin W Dixon books, Frank and Joe Hardy: the Clues Brothers books, Mystery books

The Shattered Helmet is Volume 52 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 1973.

Plot summary

Danger is the name of the game when the Hardys agree to help their pen pal from Greece, Evangelos Pandropolos, 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 treasured 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 constantly on the move-from their college campus to California and finally to Greece. In a sizzling climax, the Hardys, Evan and Chet match wits with their powerful enemies on the island of Corfu.

References

The Shattered Helmet Wikipedia