- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
Frank and Joe Hardy become involved in an intriguing mystery which revolves around their fencing master, Ettore Russo. Proof that Russo is the rightful heir to his grandfather's estate hinges on retrieving the guard end of a broken saber lost many years ago in California.
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Resolved, classical in form, earnest and unpretentious.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101064917
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“FRANK and Joe Hardy, masked and gloved, confronted each other with crossed foils.”
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon, and the Nancy Drew series under Carolyn Keene.
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