This is the original 1928 story of The Missing Chums: The Hardy Boys Book 4. The book has undergone one major revision since its original publication in 1928, resulting in two significantly different stories bearing the same title. Chet and Biff, chums of Frank and Joe Hardy, intend to take a pleasure trip down the coast in Biff's new boat. They start during an ominous storm and then disappear. Mr. Hardy leaves to capture a dangerous criminal...