- Mystery and detective stories, Hardy boys (fictitious characters), fiction, Children's fiction, Children's stories
In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Collins, grosset and dunlap, Armada
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101076477
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“SKATING against the stiff evening wind, Frank and Joe Hardy streaked across the frozen surface of Willow River toward Woodson Academy.”
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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