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The Disappearing Floor
Children's fiction
The Disappearing Floor
Book 19 of the The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories series
192 pages · First published 1940
Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a house where a floor seems to disappear, an impossible feature that suggests someone has deliberately engineered the mystery. The brothers search for practical explanations while criminal activity raises the danger behind the architectural puzzle. Secret spaces and misleading appearances make the building itself part of the case. Franklin W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys mystery uses one of the series’ classic impossible-seeming clues to combine hidden mechanisms, youthful detection, and a crime that depends on people believing what they see.
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