- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
When a man selling leather goods door-to-door steals the key to their detective father's file cabinet, Frank and Joe Hardy set out to track him down. An odd mark on a key case which the man sold to their mother leads the teen-age sleuths to an Indian village, whose chief begs them to help him.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- Collins, HarperCollins Publishers, Grosset and Dunlap
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780001605244
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“"I WANT to speak to my nephews Frank and Joe Hardy at once" said an excited voice on the telephone.”
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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