Vanessa Bender

Hardy Boys Character
name= Vanessa Bender
gender= Female
hometown= Manhattan
occupation= High school student
affiliation=
relatives= Mother: Andrea Bender
appearance= The Hardy Boys Casefiles #69 "Mayhem in Motion" (November 1992)

Vanessa Bender is a fictional character and Joe Hardy’s girlfriend in most of The Hardy Boys Casefiles book series after the death of his first girlfriend, Iola Morton in Casefiles #1 "Dead on Target".

Background

Vanessa is around 17 years old and lives with her mother, Andrea Bender, on a small farm on the outskirts of Bayport.

Frank and Joe Hardy (the Hardy Boys of the title) first met her some time after Iola’s death when she first moved to Bayport from Manhattan, they got to know her better when they were working on a case for her mother in Casefiles #69 "Mayhem in Motion". After the case was successfully wrapped up she and Joe started dating and when the Casefiles series was canceled in 1998 with the publication of #127 "Dead in the Water", they were still a steady couple.

Physical description

Vanessa is quite tall (nearly as tall as Joe, who is 6-feet) and slender, with long, ash-blonde hair and gray-blue eyes.

External links

* [http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/chums/chumvanessa.htm Vanessa Bender at the Hardy Detective Agency]