- Jewel thieves, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Juvenile fiction
Once again Frank and Joe Hardy take on a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardys’ home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., Sampson Low
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780001605053
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“"HEY, Frank! Isn't that the black car Dad told us to watch for?" exclaimed Joe Hardy.”
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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