The Million Dollar Nightmare is a young adult novel in the Hardy Boys series, No. 103 overall and 54th in the Mystery Digest division, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It is set in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

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Plot summary

The Hardy Boys vacation in San Francisco awaiting their next case, but a mystery smacks them in the face after Joe spots the mysterious Julian Ardyce, a millionaire and horse racing fanatic. Ardyce vanished after a horse called Nightmare disappeared after winning the local California Classic. Frank and Joe meet the horse's owner, Nina Glass, and her parents, and decide to work on the case. But answers are hard to come by in the California sunshine-especially when the Boys take an involuntary visit to Alcatraz! But the Boys stay on the case-with shocking results!

Note: This title was listed in promotional materials as "The Million-Dollar Solution" before publication.