Episode 5: The Hardy Boys and Cataloguing with Tony Carpentieri (Part 1)

You mean someone can tell us everything about a Hardy Boys book down to the number of commas, prepositions, and the month and year it was printed?  In this episode, statistician and Hardy Boys cataloguer Tony Carpentieri joins Sleuth Studies: The Hardy Boys Podcast to talk about his interest in different editions of Hardy Boys books and how that love led to an over forty-year project that became the comprehensive, over one-thousand-page book set, Hardy & Hardy Investigations. From what it means to consider Hardy Boys books as collectibles and historical artifacts to how on earth it was possible to create such a comprehensive catalogue of different printings of Hardy Boys books, Tony takes us into his process and interest with wit, humour, and a huge amount of respect for the books that he’s spent his evenings, weekends, and retirement hours exploring. Make sure to tune in to part one of this two-part episode!____Tony Carpentieri is a statistician, author, publisher, and likely the most knowledgeable person about the Hardy Boys printed editions in the world. Tony can often be found holding one printing of a Hardy Boys book in one hand, another printing in the other hand, and carefully pouring through them to find the differences. Over the last forty years, Tony has carefully catalogued every book in the Hardy Boys series and published his findings in Hardy & Hardy Investigations—now in its ninth edition—through his publishing house, SynSine Press. _____The original theme music for Sleuth Studies: The Hardy Boys Podcast was composed by Geoff Li (https://www.geoffli.com/).Sleuth Studies is grateful for the support of Volunteer Alberta, the GLOCAL Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, and the Government of Canada.