# The Shore Road Mystery — Character guide

> Key figures in The Shore Road Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon.

- [Frank Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/frank_hardy.md): Frank is the elder Hardy brother, a Bayport high schooler who has already helped his father crack cases the police couldn't. Where Joe leaps, Frank calculates, and that friction shapes how the brothers split up danger on
- [Joe Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/joe_hardy.md): Joe is Frank's junior partner in amateur sleuthing, the one who scrambles down the beach with three troopers and signals back with a flashlight. He's brave to the point of recklessness, and the cave roundup shows why tha
- [Chet Morton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/chet_morton.md): Chet is the Hardy boys' high school chum from a farm outside Bayport, forever hungry and forever underestimated. When a snooping detective camps in Jack Dodd's apple tree, Chet chains a bulldog to the trunk and walks awa
- [Gus Montrose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/gus_montrose.md): Gus is one of the thieves operating out of the hidden cave and tunnels off Shore Road, the man who shouts for Sam and refuses to charge armed boys in the dark. He's cautious where his partners are bold, and that caution 
- [Jack Dodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/jack_dodd.md): Jack Dodd and his family have been accused of the Shore Road car thefts and are paying for it in troopers, detectives, and neighbors peering over fences. He sits on his barnyard fence, disconsolate but still cracking jok
- [Mr. Dodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/mr_dodd.md): Jack Dodd's father, worried about his son's arrest.
- [Fenton Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/fenton_hardy.md): Fenton Hardy moved his family to Bayport for private practice and discouraged his boys from following him into detective work, preferring medicine or law. Then Frank and Joe solved the Tower Treasure case without him, an
- [Jed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/jed.md): A minor character involved in the auto theft plot.
- [Dan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/dan.md): A minor character associated with the thieves.
- [Aunt Gertrude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/aunt_gertrude.md): The Hardy boys' aunt, a frequent visitor to their home.
- [Biff Hooper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/biff_hooper.md): A friend of the Hardy boys, helps in their investigations.
- [Dad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/dad.md): Informal reference to Fenton Hardy by his sons.
- [Sam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/sam.md): A minor character, possibly a friend or helper.
- [Mr. Dowd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/mr_dowd.md): A minor character who interacts with the Hardy boys.
- [Tony Prito](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_shore_road_mystery_se/characters/tony_prito.md): A friend of the Hardy boys, helps with their boat.

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