- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
An archaeological expedition in the West turns into a desperate attempt to capture robbers and an escaped convict.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006925033
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“"IF SOMEBODY doesn't toss a mystery our way, fel, we may actually be swimming in this pool one of these days"”
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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