The Viking Symbol Mystery

{{Short description|Book by Franklin W. Dixon}}

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{{Infobox book |

| name = The Viking Symbol Mystery

| orig title =

| translator =

| image = The Viking Symbol Mystery.jpg

| caption = Original edition

| author = Franklin W. Dixon

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| country = United States

| language = English

| series = The Hardy Boys

| genre = Detective, mystery

| publisher = Grosset & Dunlap

| release_date = 1963

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 175 pp

| isbn = 978-0-448-08942-3

| preceded_by = The Clue of the Screeching Owl

| followed_by = The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior

}}

The Viking Symbol Mystery is Volume 42 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301818728 The Viking Symbol Mystery] at WorldCat

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Alistair M. Hunter in 1963.{{cite web| last=Keeline| first=James D| title=Who Wrote the Hardy Boys? Secrets from the Syndicate Files Revealed| url=http://www.keeline.com/Hardy_Boys.pdf}}

Plot summary

The Hardy Boys and Chet Morton travel to Canada's Northwest Territories to recover a stolen Viking artifact (a runestone). They also smash a group of thieves robbing recreational lodges around the Great Slave Lake. They visit Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Edmonton, Alberta; Fort Smith, Northwest Territories; Wood Buffalo National Park; and Hay River.

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