Running on Fumes

In this Hardy Boys adventure, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy travel to Southern California to investigate a utopian community located between the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains. They are tasked with determining whether the group's leader, Arthur Stench, and his followers are planning criminal activity within the oil industry. The brothers must uncover whether the community poses a threat to the thousands of innocent people who rely on oil for electricity. This is the second book in the series, written at a 4th to 8th grade reading level.