description: A long-distance telephone call from Chet Morton's uncle summons Frank and Joe Hardy and their staunch pal Chet to a summer art school, located near old Fort Senandaga which is reputed to be inhabited by a ghost. The young detectives' assignment: recover two famous oil paintings stolen from the valuable Prisoner-Painter collection by Jefferson Davenport.Mr. Davenport, millionaire sponsor of Millwood Art School, reveals that one of the famous Fort Senandaga pictures painted by his artist ancestor, General Jason Davenport, contains a clue to the hiding place of a priceless chain of gold.Vicious threats and deadly traps beset Frank, Joe, and Chet as they search for clues to the stolen paintings and the gold treasure--a search that is complicated by a stormy feud between a proud Englishman and an equally proud Frenchman over the military history of the ancient fort.Here is a thrilling mystery-adventure guaranteed to hold the reader in breathless suspense from first page to last.
language: English
title: The Haunted Fort
titlecomplete: The Haunted Fort (Hardy Boys, Book 44)
characters: Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Joe Hardy, Jefferson Davenport, Frank Hardy, Jason Davenport
genres: Adventure, Classics, Mystery, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Thriller, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 2272
series: The Hardy Boys
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers