- Mystery and detective stories, Detective and mystery stories, Falconry, Fiction
A trained peregrine falcon that the young detectives receive as a gift involves them in an exciting mystery. Imagine their astonishment when the swift-flying falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying two precious rubies!
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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
- 1954
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780448089348
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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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