''The Clue of the Hissing Serpent'' is Volume 53 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by

Grosset & Dunlap Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City-based publishing house founded in 1898. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group. Today, through the Penguin Gro ...

. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Andrew E. Svenson in 1974.

Plot summary

The Hardy brothers and Chet meet a wealthy balloonist named Albert Krassner, who is in possession of the Ruby King, a valuable life-sized chess piece that is the prize for a chess tournament. The boys soon learn that a gang wants to steal the Ruby King. Then the Ruby King mysteriously disappears from the Krassner safe, sending the Hardy Boys to Hong Kong. There they capture the gang and find the Ruby King.

References

The Hardy Boys books 1974 American novels 1974 children's books Novels set in Hong Kong Grosset & Dunlap books {{1970s-ya-novel-stub