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_Title:_ The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys #9)
_Date of first publication:_ 1930
_Author:_ Franklin W. Dixon (Stratemeyer pseudonym)
_Date first posted:_ November 16, 2024
_Date last updated:_ November 16, 2024
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[Cover Illustration]

[Illustration: _The Great Airport Mystery_

“IT’S ROBBERY, BUT I’LL SELL THE PLANE,” THE HARDY BOYS HEARD OLLIE
JACOBS SAY.]

HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES

THE GREAT AIRPORT
MYSTERY

By
FRANKLIN W. DIXON

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

‾Made in the United States of America‾

Copyright, 1930, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Inc.
——
_All Rights Reserved_
The Hardy Boys: The Great Airport Mystery

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Peril from the Sky . . . . 1
II The Crash . . . . . . 8
III A Promise of Trouble . . . . 17
IV An Attack . . . . . . 25
V Anxious Days . . . . . 34
VI The Cabin in the Woods . . . 42
VII A Mysterious Conversation . . . 51
VIII Puzzled . . . . . . 59
IX Missing Mail . . . . . 67
X Looking for Clues . . . . 77
XI News from the City . . . . 87
XII Under Arrest . . . . . 96
XIII Circumstantial Evidence . . . 106
XIV Held for Trial . . . . . 115
XV On the Trail of Ollie Jacobs . . 125
XVI Mysterious Plans . . . . 136
XVII Dangerous Business . . . . 144
XVIII The Warning Message . . . . 153
XIX The Twenty-Eighth . . . . 162
XX That Night . . . . . . 172
XXI West of Bacon Hill . . . . 181
XXII Captured . . . . . . 189
XXIII Back in Bayport . . . . . 197
XXIV Vindicated . . . . . . 207