Danger on Vampire Trail

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author being the first) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). Charles Leslie McFarlane was born in Carleton Place, Ontario, he is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.

An assignment from their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy to track down a ring of credit-card counterfeiters takes Frank, an eighteen-year-old and dark-haired boy and Joe, a seventeen-year-old and blond boy Hardy his adventurous sons on an exciting camping trip to Rocky Mountains. The cross-country trek with their pal Chet Morton, the Hardy boy’s closest friend who lived on a farm on the outskirts of Bayport and Biff Hooper is unfortunate from the very first day. Trouble with their tent trailer is compounded by cruel harassment all the way to Colorado. Here their enemies strike at Biffs lovable bloodhound in another attempt to scare the teen-age detectives off the case. In Denver a skein of clues confuses the Hardy’s. Many gangs are out to get them. Strange happenings on a nearly impassable mountain lure Frank, Joe, Chet, and Biff to almost certain death before they discover the evil reason for the danger on Vampire Trail.

The lesson of the story was preserving in spite of hardships. Even though many trails and hardships came on their way they still achieve their goal because they didn’t surrender on their way. In relating in our life, we must not easily give up our aim and ambition because we meet hardships and trials along the way but instead we make it as our strength or a helping block towards our ambition.

The novel was good and I like the style of the author on delivering the story. He let the novel speaks and it brings the reader into the story. Even though the story was so complicated because there are so many places that I don’t know but still he helps you describe the place. The story has many characters and some of them disappear at the middle of the tale. The author set the story on an adventure mode and it gives suspense to the reader.