CHET MORTON

'Chet Morton' is a fictional character in the popular The Hardy Boys book series by Franklin W. Dixon.
Chet grew up with Frank and Joe Hardy (the Hardy Boys of the title) and has been one of their best friends since second grade. He usually doesn't want to have anything to do with the Hardy boys' mysteries, but ends up helping them anyway, occasionally he even helps Frank and Joe out on an ATAC mission-not that he ever knows about ATAC, American Teens Against Crime. He lives on a farm with his parents and Iola Morton, just outside of Bayport. He is big husky guy with curly red (sometimes blond) hair, a pug-like nose, freckles and a round face. Chet loves to eat and enjoys strawberry sodas and comic books. He has a liking for Aunt Gertrude's cooking, and often eats it while at the Hardys' house. He owns an old yellow jalopy he named ''Queen''. It is also said in the books that he plays center on Bayport's high school varsity football team.
Chet tends to pick up new hobbies in each book, and sometimes they are connected in some way to the mystery in the novel. One example can be seen in the book ''Mystery of the Whale Tattoo'' in which the Hardy boys are deeply involved in a mystery of a missing valuable figurine that had been stolen years before by a gang of thieves who were known for having whale tattoos and using names of whales as aliases. In the book, Chet Morton's hobby is scrimshaw, and Chet uses his knowledge of whales and of scrimshaw to help the boys piece together the members of the gang.