Vanessa Bender List of The Hardy Boys characters
vanessa bender joe hardy s girlfriend in of hardy boys casefiles book series after death of first girlfriend, iola morton, in casefiles #1 dead on target. vanessa around 17 years old , lives mother, andrea bender, on small farm on outskirts of bayport. frank , joe hardy (the hardy boys of title) first met time after iola’s death when first moved bayport manhattan, got know better when working on case mother in casefiles #69 mayhem in motion. after case wrapped , joe started dating , when casefiles series canceled in 1998 publication of #127 dead in water, still steady couple. vanessa quite tall (nearly tall joe, 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)) , slender, long, ash-blonde hair , gray-blue eyes.