For some months I have been looking for artists with a demonstrated talent for sketch work to remake the frontispieces (and, in the case of later books and rewrites, internal illustrations) for the Hardy books. Here (and what you see as this page's background, at least for right now) is the first finished product of my active commissions, done by https://x.com/onibaraart. I have several others in the works, including one for front cover art.
It is a possible frontispiece for Book 001, The Tower Treasure, whose only major set/sex piece is the scene in Chapter XV, has the Hardys and their chums go-go dancing in a gay bar for Chief Ezra Collig and Detective Oscar Smuff in order to distract the good constables from getting on a train on a police mission that would ruin Fenton Hardy's investigation.
The chapter is accordingly renamed 'The Chief Gets Bombed'. The original title was 'The Chief Gets a Bomb' and the boys original plot was a bomb scare. Personally, I think I cleaned up the mayhem a little; go-go dancing, so long as the underwear stays on, is innocent mischief in minors; whereas a bomb scare is a felony no matter who done it.
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