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The Hardy Boys Casefiles is a series, aimed at older readers, it was published by Archway Paperbacks (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) between 1987 and 1998. The Casefiles were a drastic change from the then current Hardy Boys world. Some of the major changes follow:

Iola Morton is killed by a terrorist car bomb in the first volume. Oddly enough, she remained alive in the concurrent Hardy Boys digest stories, thereby creating two different Hardy Boys universes.
The books become more grisly. Frank and Joe use firearms and are now fighting far more dangerous criminals, traveling undercover throughout the country and around the globe.
The glamorous aspects of international intrigue are played up.
Frank and Joe take a more serious interest in girls.
The boys embrace high-tech gadgetry, and Frank becomes a computer whiz.
Chapters no longer have titles, and there are no illustrations.
At times the boys work with The Gray Man, who represents a cloak-and-dagger crime fighting organization, the Network.
In general, there is much more action and violence in this series than in the Digest or Original series.

Characters

The Casefiles also introduced some new characters that never appeared in any other series before.

Vanessa Bender, Joe Hardy's girlfriend after Iola’s death, she lives on an old farm with her mother. She first appears in book 69.
The Gray Man
Samuel Peterson, Fenton Hardy’s former partner on the New York Police Force, Sam is now the chief of the force. He appears in two volumes, starting in book 5.

Writers and artists

Many writers (under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon) and illustrators worked on the Casefiles series; here is a list of some of them:

Authors:

Larry Mike Garmon (books 27, 36, 39, 43, 46, and 126)
Ron Goulart (23, 30, and 44)
Steven Grant (3, 6, 14, 19, 29, and 62)

Some of these authors are unverified but probable.

Cover Art:

Morgan Kane (books 1-2)
Brian Kotsky (3-104)
John Youssi (122-127)
Photographs of the stars of the 1995 Hardy Boys TV show, Colin Gray and Paul Popowich graced the covers of books 105-121.

List of titles

1987

1. Dead on Target

2. Evil, Inc.

3. Cult of Crime

4. The Lazarus Plot

5. Edge of Destruction

6. The Crowning Terror

7. Deathgame

8. See No Evil

9. The Genius Thieves

10. Hostages of Hate

1988

11. Brother Against Brother

12. Perfect Getaway

13. The Borgia Dagger

14. Too Many Traitors

15. Blood Relations

16. Line of Fire

17. The Number File

18. A Killing in the Market

19. Nightmare in Angel City

20. Witness to Murder

21. Street Spies

22. Double Exposure

1989

23. Disaster for Hire

24. Scene of the Crime

25. The Borderline Case

26. Trouble in the Pipeline

27. Nowhere to Run

28. Countdown to Terror

29. Thick as Thieves

30. The Deadliest Dare

31. Without a Trace

32. Blood Money

33. Collision Course

34. Final Cut

1990

35. The Dead Season

36. Running on Empty

37. Danger Zone

38. Diplomatic Deceit

39. Flesh and Blood

40. Fright Wave

41. Highway Robbery

42. The Last Laugh

43. Strategic Moves

44. Castle Fear

45. In Self-Defense

46. Foul Play

1991

47. Flight into Danger

48. Rock 'n' Revenge

49. Dirty Deeds

50. Power Play

51. Choke Hold

52. Uncivil War

53. Web of Horror

54. Deep Trouble

55. Beyond the Law

56. Height of Danger

57. Terror On Track

58. Spiked!

59. Open Season

1992

60. Deadfall

61. Grave Danger

62. Final Gambit

63. Cold Sweat

64. Endangered Species

65. No Mercy

66. The Phoenix Equation

67. Lethal Cargo

68. Rough Riding

69. Mayhem in Motion

70. Rigged for Revenge

1993

71. Real Horror

72. Screamers

73. Bad Rap

74. Road Pirates

75. No Way Out

76. Tagged for Terror

77. Survival Run

78. The Pacific Conspiracy

79. Danger Unlimited

80. Dead of Night

81. Sheer Terror

82. Poisoned Paradise

1994

83. Toxic Revenge

84. False Alarm

85. Winner Take All

86. Virtual Villainy

87. Dead Man in Deadwood

88. Inferno of Fear

89. Darkness Falls

90. Deadly Engagement

91. Hot Wheels

92. Sabotage at Sea

93. Mission: Mayhem

94. A Taste for Terror

1995

95. Illegal Procedure

96. Against All Odds

97. Pure Evil

98. Murder by Magic

99. Frme-up

100. True Thriller

101. Peak of Danger

102. Wrong Side of the Law

103. Campaign of Crime

104. Wild Wheels

105. Law of the Jungle

106. Shock Jock

1996

107. Fast Break

108. Blown Away

109. Moment of Truth

110. Bad Chemistry

111. Competitive Edge

112. Cliff-Hanger

113. Sky High

114. Clean Sweep

115. Cave Trap

116. Acting Up

117. Blood Sport

118. The Last Leap

1997

119. The Emperor's Shield

120. Survival of the Fittest

121. Absolute Zero

122. River Rats

123. High Wire Act

124. The Viking's Revenge

125. Stress Point

126. Fire in the Sky

1998

127. Dead in the Water

Collector's Edition 1 (May 1998)

Contains #38 Diplomatic Deceit, #39 Flesh and Blood, #40 Fright Wave

Collector's Edition 2 (September 1998)

Contains #48 Rock 'N' Revenge, #51 Choke Hold, #52 Uncivil War

1999

Collector's Edition 3 (January 1999)

Contains #55 Beyond The Law, #58 Spiked!, #59 Open Season

Unpublished Casefiles

128. Title Unknown

129. Explosive Force

130. The Crisscross Crime (released in June 1998 as Digest #150)

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-'''''The Hardy Boys Casefiles''''' is a series, aimed at older readers, it was published by Archway Paperbacks (an imprint of [[Simon & Schuster]]) between 1987 and 1998. The Casefiles were a drastic change from the then current Hardy Boys world. Some of the major changes follow:
+'''''The Hardy Boys Casefiles''''' is a series, aimed at older readers, it was published by Archway Paperbacks (an imprint of [[Simon & Schuster]]) between [[1987]] and [[1998]]. The Casefiles were a drastic change from the then current Hardy Boys world. Some of the major changes follow:
 * [[Iola Morton (Casefiles)|Iola Morton]] is killed by a terrorist car bomb in the first volume. Oddly enough, she remained alive in the concurrent Hardy Boys digest stories, thereby creating two different Hardy Boys universes.