The Twisted Claw

While their father Fenton Hardy is working on case of museum robberies he asks Frank and Joe to stake out the Black Parrot, a shipping boat docked in Bayport. The Hardy boys get a job loading crates aboard the ship, but because the crew is so unfriendly and they are kept very busy, they don’t have a chance to investigate so instead they decide to follow another lead and travel to New York to search for a rare old book. While scouring a used book store they locate a book titled Empire of the Twisted Claw which bears a symbol on the cover which matches a ring the first mate of the Black Parrot was wearing. While they can not afford to purchase the book the store keeper allows them to read it, whereby they learn about the Empire of the Twisted Claw and the pirate ships named Black Parrot and Yellow Parrot and the King who contolled the empire.