The House on the Cliff
An abandoned mansion perched above Barmet Bay gives this second Hardy Boys book its brooding heart. Fenton Hardy asks his sons to help crack a smuggling ring, and the trail leads Frank and Joe to the Polucca place, a wreck of a house said to be haunted. A boat blows up, a stranger is pulled half-drowned from the water, and then both the rescued man and the boys’ own father go missing. What follows is a tense hunt through cliffs and hidden passages. First published in 1927 under the Franklin W. Dixon name, it helped fix the series’ taste for spooky settings and real peril. Grab the free PDF and EPUB below.
About the Author
Franklin W. Dixon is a collective pen name created by Edward Stratemeyer’s fiction syndicate for the Hardy Boys series, which began in 1927. Several writers worked under it over the decades, most notably the Canadian newspaperman Leslie McFarlane, who ghostwrote the majority of the earliest…
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Listen to The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon free online. The full audiobook (3 hr 53 min, 25 chapters, read by James R. Hedrick) streams free on this page.
The House on the Cliff (1927) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Haunted House | 12:04 | |
| 2 | The Storm | 10:24 | |
| 3 | Empty Tool Boxes | 9:49 | |
| 4 | The Chase in the Bay | 9:08 | |
| 5 | The Rescue | 10:08 | |
| 6 | Snackley | 10:48 | |
| 7 | Bound and Gagged | 7:41 | |
| 8 | The Stolen Witness | 10:59 | |
| 9 | The Strange Message | 9:07 | |
| 10 | The Vain Search | 12:58 | |
| 11 | The Cap on the Peg | 9:16 | |
| 12 | Pointed Questions | 8:12 | |
| 13 | A Plan of Attack | 8:29 | |
| 14 | Private Property | 9:18 | |
| 15 | Smugglers | 10:46 | |
| 16 | The Secret Passage | 8:45 | |
| 17 | The Chamber in the Cliff | 9:43 | |
| 18 | A Startling Discovery | 7:21 | |
| 19 | Captured | 11:05 | |
| 20 | Dire Threats | 7:01 | |
| 21 | Quick Work | 8:55 | |
| 22 | Into the Haunted Hause | 9:20 | |
| 23 | Rescue | 8:37 | |
| 24 | The Round-Up | 7:01 | |
| 25 | The Mystery Explained | 6:28 |
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