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The Gray Man (The Hardy Boys)

Frank Hardy
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation A.T.A.C agent, affiliated with The Network
Relatives Father: Fenton Hardy
Mother: Laura Hardy
Brother: Joe Hardy
Aunt: Gertrude Hardy
Joseph Irving Hardy
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation ATAC agent, affiliated with The Network
Relatives Father: Fenton Hardy
Mother: Laura Hardy
Brother: Frank Hardy
Aunt: Gertrude Hardy
Fenton Hardy
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation Private investigator, affiliated with ATAC
Relatives Wife: Laura Hardy
Sons: Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy
Sister: Gertrude Hardy
Gertrude Hardy
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #4 The Missing Chums (1928)
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Gender Female
Occupation Homemaker
Relatives Brother: Fenton Hardy
Sister-in-law: Laura Hardy
Nephews: Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy
Chester Morton
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation High school student and he works on the street
Relatives Iola Morton
Tony Prito
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation Prito co., Mr. Pizza Restaurant manager
Relatives Father: Mr. Prito
Mother: Mrs. Prito (nee Simone)
Uncle: Matt Simone
Aunt: Mrs. Simone (nee Mulvaney)
Cousin: Mike Simone
Callie Shaw
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Female
Occupation High school student
Relatives Father: Mr. Shaw
Mother: Mrs. Shaw
Cousin: Pollie Shaw
Philip Cohen
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure (1927)
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Gender Male
Occupation High school student
Relatives Father: Mr. Cohen
Mother: Mrs. Cohen
Vanessa Bender
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys Casefiles #69 Mayhem in Motion (November 1992)
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Gender Female
Occupation High school student
Relatives Mother: Andrea Bender
Arthur E. Gray
The Hardy Boys character
First appearance The Hardy Boys Casefiles #1 Dead on Target (1987)
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Gender Male
Occupation The Network agent

Many characters have appeared in the fictional series of books about The Hardy Boys.

At the beginning of the original Hardy Boys series, Frank is only 16 years old (18 prior to the revisions between 1959 and 1974) and both he and Joe want to follow in their famous father, Fenton Hardy’s footsteps as detectives. When the father of one of their school friends is wrongly accused of stealing, the Hardy boys take it upon themselves to clear his name and solve the mystery.

After Frank and Joe solve their first case, Fenton—although he had not wanted his sons to get into the detective business because of the dangers involved—starts asking for their help on some of his cases.

Fenton and his boys working together plays a bigger part in this series than in any of the following Hardy Boys series.

In this series, Frank is in the same grade as Joe (who is a year younger), because he lost a year due to sickness, but in all the other series he is a grade ahead of Joe and him losing a year is never mentioned.

In the Casefiles, the differences between Frank and Joe are more pronounced as Joe’s personality is somewhat changed because of the death of his girlfriend, Iola Morton. Frank (although the death of Iola does affect him somewhat) stays more or less the same.

In the Casefiles series, the Hardy boys collaborate with The Gray Man, who works for the Network—a secret government intelligence agency—to fight the Assassins, an international terrorist organization responsible for Iola's death.

Also the Casefiles were written between the late 1980s and 1990s unlike the original series (1927–79), home computers were available, and because of this Frank’s character is modernized and he becomes a PC computer buff; in one book he is even able to hack into the Bayport City computer system. Frank is also well-versed in the making of bombs and is also able to disassemble them, which saves his and many other's lives many times. As was the case in previous series, Joe acts as the mechanic for the boys, and is often described as being very athletic.

This was a series of 36 paperback novels in which the Hardy Boys teamed up with female teen sleuth Nancy Drew.

One character arc seen throughout the series is the mutual attraction between Nancy and Frank. The couple shared a kiss twice in the series; the first in book 5, The Last Resort, when the two are trapped after an avalanche and fear that they will die. The second is in Secrets of the Nile, where they kiss on a balcony after the case is solved. However, the kiss is interrupted by Bess Marvin. Another hint at their relationship is when Nancy's longtime love interest Ned Nickerson saves her. However, a disheveled Nancy calls out Frank's name instead, believing him to be her saviour, and severely disheartening Ned.


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