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The Clue of the Hissing Serpent

Author	Franklin W. Dixon
Language	English
Series	The Hardy Boys
Genre	Detective, mystery
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date	1974
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	181 pp
ISBN	0-448-08953-X
OCLC	1009042
LC Class	PZ7.D644 Cm
Preceded by	The Shattered Helmet
Followed by	The Mysterious Caravan

The Clue of the Hissing Serpent is the fifty-third volume in the original The Hardy Boys series of mystery books for children and teens published by Grosset & Dunlap.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Andrew E. Svenson in 1974. ^[1]

Plot summary

The Hardy brothers and Chet meet a wealthy balloonist named Albert Krassner, who is in possession of the Ruby King, a valuable life-sized chess piece that is the prize for a chess tournament. The boys soon learn that a gang wants to steal the Ruby King. Then the Ruby King mysteriously disappears from the Krassner safe, sending the Hardy Boys to Hong Kong. There they capture the gang and find the Ruby King.

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