# The Missing Chums — Character guide

> Key figures in The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon.

- [Frank Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/frank_hardy.md): Frank anchors the Hardy boys' circle of chums, the one who notices the strange motorboat, reads suspicion in loitering strangers, and steadies Joe's impulses with quiet calculation. When gangsters discover his name on th
- [Joe Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/joe_hardy.md): Joe rides beside Frank as the pair's faster, hotter half, quick to joke and quicker to act, though painfully shy around Iola Morton. His membership card in a Bayport athletic association is what exposes the boys as the r
- [Chet Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/chet_morton.md): Chet is the friend whose farmhouse the boys visit, whose sister Iola makes Joe stammer, and whose disappearance with Biff launches the whole search. Even chained in a cave, he snaps 'Find out!' at his captors, borrowing 
- [Aunt Gertrude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/aunt_gertrude.md): Aunt Gertrude descends on the Hardy household with bags, baggage, and Lavinia the cat, arriving two hours early precisely when the boys hoped to escape her. Mrs. Hardy jokes that any burglar would rather face a vicious b
- [Biff Hooper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/biff_hooper.md): Biff is at the wheel when the strange motorboat crowds the Envoy, and one of the men points him out, a detail that nags at Frank afterward. He disappears alongside Chet, making the two of them the missing chums whose abs
- [Mrs. Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/mrs_hardy.md): Mrs. Hardy has been deeply concerned about Chet and Biff since they vanished, and she gives Frank and Joe her blessing to organize a searching party. She teases that she'll be left 'to the mercies of that managing woman,
- [Tony Prito](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/tony_prito.md): Tony belongs to the tight circle of Bayport friends who share the Hardys' appetite for trouble on the water, and he's often the one left drenched at the tiller when a storm rolls in. He ferries Jerry Gilroy and Phil Cohe
- [Baldy Turk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/baldy_turk.md): A suspicious character involved in the mystery surrounding the missing chums.
- [Jerry Gilroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/jerry_gilroy.md): A friend of the Hardys who joins them on their adventures.
- [Mr. Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/mr_hardy.md): Fenton Hardy moves through the household like a man already half gone, snapping his club-bag shut and catching a taxi to Chicago on the trail of Baldy Turk. His wife Laura voices a dread she has never felt before, and ev
- [Red Hawkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/red_hawkins.md): A menacing figure connected to the criminal plot.
- [Iola Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/iola_morton.md): Chet's sister and a friend of the Hardys.
- [Pete](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/pete.md): A minor character who appears in the story.
- [Phil Cohen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/phil_cohen.md): A friend of the Hardys who assists in their detective work.
- [Callie Shaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/callie_shaw.md): A friend of the Hardys and Joe's romantic interest.
- [Slim Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_missing_chums_se/characters/slim_robinson.md): A friend of the Hardys who joins their circle.

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