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Ghost of the Hardy Boys : the writer behind the world's most famous boy detectives

Ghost of the Hardy Boys : the writer behind the world's most famous boy detectives

McFarlane, Leslie, 1902-1977, author.
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"As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was perhaps the first bestselling ghostwriter in his...

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Authors, Canadian 20th century Biography
Boys Books and reading
Detective and mystery stories Authorship
Hardy Boys (Fictitious characters)
McFarlane, Leslie, 1902-1977
McFarlane, Leslie, 1902-1977 Characters Hardy Boys
Stratemeyer Syndicate
Teenagers in literature
Young adult fiction Authorship
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ISBN:
9781567927177
Description:
xxii, 275 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published in 1976
Canadiana
Contents:
Fiction writer wanted
You, too, can be Roy Rockwood
Trial run
Goodbye Springfield
A book is a book is a buck
Enter the Hardy Boys
The tower treasure (for starters)
Home-town boy returns
A career in journalism
Mr. Mason, "the boss around here"
The northland
Never tell the truth about an amateur show
The good life
Literature for the growing child
The man who chased fire engines
Sheet anchor to windward
The last of the Hardy Boys
The dispossessed ghost
LCCN:
2021052625
Control Number:
3195009
Other Authors:
Greenwald, Marilyn S., writer of introduction
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