While The Clock Ticked - Plot Summary (revised Edition)

Plot Summary (revised Edition)

A banker named Ray Dalrymple of Lakeside gets death threats and shows up at the Hardy's house seeking Fenton Hardy's assistance. Frank & Joe offer to help, but at first he's reluctant. At last, he agrees. Soon after that, during a hike with their friends, the Hardy boys are nearly run over by a car, then investigate the Purdy place. After that, they rest and talk over their recent mis-adventures.

After this, another stormy sleuth of the mansion reveals a man resembling Dalrymple enter the house. Suddenly, a light goes on in the house followed by a man's scream. This later proved to be an elderly man named Hurd Applegate, a friend of the Hardy boys. He tells them of the theft of his valuable jade collection.

Further sleuthing reveals that the thefts are performed in well known speedboats such as the Hardy's Sleuth.

Shortly after, Dalrymple disappears and the Hardy's, fearing for his life, go to the Purdy place to look for him.

Then the Hardy are held up by a man named Arthur Jensen looking similar to Dalrymple living in his house secretly in hiding. Jensen was a thief who stole small but valuable things from ships, etc. Frank and Joe are bound and gagged along with an inventor named Amos Wandy with a time bomb set to go off at 3 am. When about one minute remains a window panel breaks and Chet Morton emerges and unbinds Frank, Joe and Wandy. They then defuse the bomb just seconds before it was supposed to go off. Then Jensen is later caught on the Purdy mansion grounds and the valuables are retrieved. Another discovery proves that the death threats to Ray Dalyrmple are lowered down through the chimney in the jaws of one of Amos Wandy's invention, which goes by wheel to the middle of the hidden room, then drops the note and is raised up by wire.

Then Ray throws a party and gives Mr. Wandy permission to stay in the hidden room and invent whenever he wants.