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Frank and Joe, members of a history club, discover a hidden compartment beneath the Prohibition Museum’s tunnels that contains 1920s documents. The papers suggest the famed Gilded Top Hat speakeasy had a different owner than the arrested Faccini brothers. The museum curator urges the Hardy Boys to investigate, and the brothers eagerly take on the case.
Soon after the discovery, the documents are stolen and the duo receives ominous warnings to stop digging. Determined to unearth the truth about the speakeasy’s real past, Frank and Joe must outmaneuver the powerful forces that will do anything to keep the secrets buried for another hundred years.
First publish date: 2023
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Franklin W. Dixon
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