Episode 6: The Hardy Boys and Cataloguing with Tony Carpentieri (Part 2)

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 part two of this two-part episode, statistician and Hardy Boys cataloguer Tony Carpentieri rejoins Sleuth Studies: The Hardy Boys Podcast to continue chatting about the Hardy Boys and his over forty-year-long process of carefully cataloguing each individual printing of Hardy Boys books. From sharing his thoughts on the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Super Mysteries to talking about the most valuable editions of the Hardy Boys—and whether or not they really should be that valuable at all—Tony brings energy, enthusiasm, and a strong belief in the fundamental value of Hardy Boys books as historical artifacts to this episode of Sleuth Studies: The Hardy Boys Podcast. You don’t want to miss this, friends. ____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 BoysPodcast 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.