num_pages: 192
description: Eighteen year-old Frank Hardy and his seventeen year-old brother Joe no sooner accept a 'shantytown' beach investigation from Bayport Police Chief Collig when two of their close chums vanish. After a crime occurs which they partially witness and the matter of the same squatter town surfaces again and again, they wonder if all of Bayport's havoc could stem from that one place.
language: English
title: The Missing Chums
titlecomplete: The Missing Chums (The Hardy Boys, #4)
characters: Lieutenant Daley, Nick (The Missing Chums), Lieutenant Parker, The proprietor at Harry's, Aunt Gertrude, Pat Muster, Ezra Collig, William Caine (The Missing Chums), Blackbeard (The Missing Chums), Jerry Gilroy, Mr. French, Chet Morton, The threatening figure, Pops (The Missing Chums), Iola Morton, Two men in the costume shop, Callie Shaw, Ben and Fritz Stark, Fenton Hardy, Biff Hooper, Laura Hardy, Frank Hardy, Tony Prito, Alf (The Missing Chums), Joe Hardy, Sutton (The Missing Chums)
genres: Middle Grade, Detective, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 7186
places: Northport, New York, Bayport
series: The Hardy Boys, Hardy-guttene
publisher: Grosset & Dunlap