{{Short description|Detective fiction series of books}} {{About||the 2002 film|Undercover Brother|Ugandan music duo|Undercover Brothers Ug}} {{Italic title}} {{Infobox book series | name = Undercover Brothers | image = <!-- Example.jpg --> | image_caption = | books = | author = [[Franklin W. Dixon]] | editors = | title_orig = ''The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers'' | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | genre = [[Detective fiction]] | publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]] | pub_date = 2005 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print | number_of_books = | list_books = | oclc = | preceded by = | followed by = | website = }}
'''''The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers''''' is a detective fiction series of books published by [[Aladdin Paperbacks]] (an [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[Simon & Schuster]]), which replaced [[The Hardy Boys]] Digest paperbacks in early 2005.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://hardyboys.us/hbundercoverbrothers.htm|title=The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers|last=Finnan|first=Robert W.|website=hardyboys.us|access-date=2018-01-01}}</ref> All the books in the series have been written under the [[pen name]] of [[Franklin W. Dixon]].
== Series background == The ''Undercover Brothers'' is about two teenage brother detectives, [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Frank Hardy|Frank]] and [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Joe Hardy|Joe Hardy]], who are the sons of world-famous [[Private investigator|PI]] [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Frank Hardy|Fenton Hardy]]. Although there are many similarities in this series to the previous ''Hardy Boys'' series, there are also many changes, for example:
* The Hardy boys are undercover agents for American Teens Against Crime (ATAC), a top-secret government organization, co-founded by their father, and are solving more realistic and violent crimes.<ref name=":0" /> Since it is a top-secret organization, Frank and Joe often need to make up excuses to convince their mother and aunt to let them go to places. * The books in this series are written in a [[first-person narrative]] style with Frank and Joe alternating chapters and often interrupting each other.<ref name=":0" /> * [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Aunt Gertrude|The Hardy boys' aunt]]'s name is shortened from Gertrude to Trudy. It is revealed in ''Hurricane Joe'' why she shortened her name to Trudy. This version is much younger than the character in other Hardy Boys series. * The Hardy boys' long-time girlfriends, [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Callie Shaw|Callie Shaw]] and [[List of The Hardy Boys characters#Iola Morton|Iola Morton]], appear in the books, but only as platonic friends of the boys instead of love interests. Other friends from the original series are occasionally mentioned but never play important roles as they did in the past. * The Hardys have a pet parrot named [[List of The Hardy Boys characters|Playback]].<ref name=Wanted>{{Cite book |title=Wanted |author=Dixon, Franklin W. |date=2006 |publisher=Aladdin Paperbacks |isbn=9781416912583 |location=New York |oclc=68464677 |url=https://archive.org/details/wantedhardyboysu00fran_0}}</ref>
===Regular series=== {| class="wikitable" |+ Titles and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Released |- ! 1 | ''Extreme Danger'' | rowspan="4"| April 1, 2005 |- ! 2 | ''Running on Fumes'' |- ! 3 | ''Boardwalk Bust'' |- ! 4 | ''Thrill Ride'' |- ! 5 | ''Rocky Road'' | July 1, 2005 |- ! 6 | ''Burned'' | October 1, 2005 |- ! 7 | ''Operation: Survival'' | December 1, 2005 |- ! 8 | ''Top Ten Ways to Die'' | February 1, 2006 |- ! 9 | ''Martial Law'' | April 1, 2006 |- ! 10 | ''Blown Away'' | June 1, 2006 |- ! 11 | ''Hurricane Joe'' | August 1, 2006 |- ! 12 | ''Trouble in Paradise'' | October 1, 2006 |- ! 13 | ''The Mummy's Curse'' | November 28, 2006 |- ! 14 | ''Hazed'' | February 6, 2007 |- ! 15 | ''Death and Diamonds'' | April 10, 2007 |- ! 16 | ''Bayport Buccaneers'' | June 5, 2007 |- ! 17 | ''Murder at the Mall'' | July 24, 2007 |- ! 18 | ''Pushed'' | September 25, 2007 |- ! 19 | ''Foul Play'' | November 27, 2007 |- ! 20 | ''Feeding Frenzy'' | January 8, 2008 |- ! 21 | ''Comic Con Artist'' | March 25, 2008 |- |}
===Trilogy series=== {| class="wikitable" |+ Titles and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Released ! Trilogy |- ! 22 | ''Deprivation House'' | May 20, 2008 | rowspan="3"| [[The Murder House Trilogy]] |- ! 23 | ''House Arrest'' | July 8, 2008 |- ! 24 | ''Murder House'' | September 30, 2008 |- ! 25 | ''[[Double Trouble (The Hardy Boys)|Double Trouble]]'' | November 25, 2008 | rowspan="3"| Double Danger Trilogy |- ! 26 | ''Double Down'' | December 23, 2008 |- ! 27 | ''Double Deception'' | March 10, 2009 |- ! 28 | ''Galaxy X'' | May 19, 2009 | rowspan="3"| Galaxy X Trilogy |- ! 29 | ''X-plosion'' | July 21, 2009 |- ! 30 | ''The X-Factor'' | September 8, 2009 |- ! 31 | ''Killer Mission'' | November 10, 2009 | rowspan="3"| Killer Mystery Trilogy |- ! 32 | ''Private Killer'' | January 5, 2010 |- ! 33 | ''Killer Connections'' | March 9, 2010 |- ! 34 | ''The Children of the Lost'' | May 4, 2010 | rowspan="3"| Identity Mystery Trilogy |- ! 35 | ''Lost Brother'' | October 12, 2010 |- ! 36 | ''Forever Lost'' | January 4, 2011 |- ! 37 | ''Movie Menace'' | May 10, 2011 | rowspan="3"| The Deathstalker Trilogy |- ! 38 | ''Movie Mission'' | September 13, 2011 |- ! 39 | ''Movie Mayhem'' | January 3, 2012 |- |}
===Undercover Brothers Super Mysteries=== {| class="wikitable" |+ Titles and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Released |- ! 1 | ''Wanted'' | June 1, 2006 |- ! 2 | ''Kidnapped at the Casino'' | May 8, 2007 |- ! 3 | ''The Haunted'' | August 5, 2008 |- |}
==The Hardy Boys Secret Files== ''The Hardy Boys Secret Files'' is a series begun in 2010 by the publisher [[Simon & Schuster]] under their [[Aladdin Paperbacks|Aladdin]] imprint. It features the Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, as grade-school detectives. Three new titles are published yearly as paperback books and eBooks. This series ended in 2015 and was replaced by the ''Hardy Boys Clue Book'' series.
# ''Trouble at the Arcade'' # ''The Missing Mitt'' # ''Mystery Map'' # ''Hopping Mad'' # ''A Monster of a Mystery'' # ''The Bicycle Thief'' # ''The Disappearing Dog'' # ''Sports Sabotage'' # ''The Great Coaster Caper'' # ''A Rockin' Mystery'' (October 2012) # ''Robot Rumble'' (April 2013) # ''Lights, Camera...Zombies!'' (August 2013) # ''Balloon Blow-Up'' (December 2013) # ''Fossil Frenzy'' (April 2014) # ''Ship of Secrets'' (August 2014) # ''Camping Chaos'' (December 2014) # ''The Great Escape'' (April 2015) # ''Medieval Upheaval'' (August 2015) # ''The Race Is On'' (December 2015)
{| class="wikitable" |+ Titles, authorship, and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Pub. |- ! 1 | ''Trouble at the Arcade'' | rowspan="2"| April 27, 2010 |- ! 2 | ''The Missing Mitt'' |- ! 3 | ''Mystery Map'' | August 17, 2010 |- ! 4 | ''Hopping Mad'' | September 14, 2010 |- ! 5 | ''A Monster of a Mystery'' | April 5, 2011 |- ! 6 | ''The Bicycle Thief'' | August 9, 2011 |- ! 7 | ''The Disappearing Dog'' | October 18, 2011 |- ! 8 | ''Sports Sabotage'' | April 3, 2012 |- ! 9 | ''The Great Coaster Caper'' | August 7, 2012 |- ! 10 | ''A Rockin' Mystery'' | October 16, 2012 |- ! 11 | ''Robot Rumble'' | April 2, 2013 |- ! 12 | ''Lights, Camera ... Zombies!'' | August 6, 2013 |- ! 13 | ''Balloon Blow-Up'' | December 3, 2013 |- ! 14 | ''Fossil Frenzy'' | April 29, 2014 |- ! 15 | ''Ship of Secrets'' | August 5, 2014 |- ! 16 | ''Camping Chaos'' | December 2, 2014 |- ! 17 | ''The Great Escape'' | April 21, 2015 |- ! 18 | ''Medieval Upheaval'' | August 4, 2015 |- ! 19 | ''The Race Is On'' | December 1, 2015 |- |}
===Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery=== A crossover [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series with the ''[[Nancy Drew: Girl Detective]]'' series. The stories are told in the first person, alternating chapters between Frank's or Joe's and Nancy's perspective. The first title in the series acts as an introduction between the characters. This series published one title per year until the end of the ''Girl Detective'' and ''Undercover Brothers'' series in 2012.
{| class="wikitable" |+ Titles and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Released |- ! 1 | ''Terror on Tour'' | June 5, 2007 |- ! 2 | ''Danger Overseas'' | May 6, 2008 |- ! 3 | ''Club Dread'' | May 5, 2009 |- ! 4 | ''Gold Medal Murder'' | July 6, 2010 |- ! 5 | ''Bonfire Masquerade'' | July 12, 2011 |- ! 6 | ''Stage Fright'' | July 10, 2012 |- |}
==Graphic novels== In the spring of 2005, [[NBM Publishing|NBM]] launched its new [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]], [[Papercutz (publisher)|Papercutz]], with the publication of two three-part [[comic book]] series; Nancy Drew (''The Demon of River Heights'') and The Hardy Boys (''The Ocean of Osyria'').<ref> {{Cite web|url= http://papercutz.com/kids-comics-graphic-novels/hardy-boys |title=The Hardy Boys |website=Papercutz |access-date=2018-01-01}} </ref> After the completion of both series, ''The Demon of River Heights'' series and ''The Ocean of Osyria'' series were both collected into 92 pages [[graphic novel]]s, becoming the first titles in the [[Girl Detective#Titles In the Nancy Drew Girl Detective Graphic Novels Series|Nancy Drew graphic novel]] series and the Hardy Boys graphic novel series respectively.
All other titles in both series have been made in graphic novel format only and are published every three months.
=== List of graphic novels series titles === ;2005 : 1. ''The Ocean of Osyria'' When [[Chet Morton]]'s Internet account is hacked into and used to bid on a stolen artifact, the Ocean of Osyria, best friends Frank and Joe Hardy, with girlfriends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, head to Osyria, the location of the auction, to clear Chet's name. : 2. ''Identity Theft'' The brothers investigate a ''very'' strange mystery about a popular, wealthy teenage girl's stolen identity. : 3. ''Mad House'' : 4. ''Malled'' The brothers and a few foreign shoppers are locked up in Bayport's new shopping mall deliberately by a mysterious man who sabotaged the mall with many traps. The 'prisoners' must struggle to survive together, find a way to escape, and find and stop the man with a few ATAC gadgets the brothers have before it is too late.
;2006 : 4. ''Malled'' : 5. ''Sea You, Sea Me'' : 6. ''[[Hyde and Shriek (graphic novel)|Hyde and Shriek]]'' : 7. ''The Opposite Numbers''
;2007 : 8. ''Board to Death'' The brothers must figure out who is trying to kill the competition at a skateboard tournament. : 9. ''To Die or Not to Die''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Hardy boys adventures 1 |author=Lobdell, Scott |author2=Marcondes, Paulo H. |author3=Rendon, Daniel |author4=Lima, Sidney |isbn=9781629916071 |location=New York |chapter=To die or not to die |date=8 November 2016 |oclc=932060662}}</ref> The boys head to a drama competition for high school students to snoop out a sabotager wanting to win the tournament. : 10. ''A Hardy Day's Night''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Hardy boys adventures 1 |author=Lobdell, Scott |author2=Marcondes, Paulo H. |author3=Rendon, Daniel |author4=Lima, Sidney |isbn=9781629916071 |location=New York |chapter=Hardy Day’s Night |date=8 November 2016 |oclc=932060662}}</ref> The Hardy Boys have to rescue an agent's son or they will be dead! : 11. ''Abracadeath''
;2008 : 12. ''Dude Ranch O' Death!'' : 13. ''The Deadliest Stunt'' The brothers head to a stunt competition to work with Lindsay Rider... as ''backup''! : 14. ''Haley Danelle's Top Eight!'' When Haley's Internet friends start disappearing in real life, the boys decide to help out. : 15. ''Live Free, Die Hardy!''
;2009 : 16. ''Shhhhhh!'' : 17. ''Word Up!'' : 18. ''D.A.N.G.E.R. Spells the Hangman'' : 19. ''Chaos at 50,000 feet!''
;2010 : 20. ''Deadly Strategy''
==See also== * [[The Hardy Boys]] {{Portal |Children's literature}}
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://hardyboys.us/hbundercoverbrothers.htm hardyboys.us] * [http://www.simonandschuster.com/series/Hardy-Boys-(All-New)-Undercover-Brothers ''Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers'' at Simon and Schuster] * [http://www.simonandschuster.com/ Simon and Schuster] {{Hardy Boys}}
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