- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
Gold bullion -- a million dollars worth -- has been stolen from the Wakefield Mint under strange circumstances. Mr. Hardy is asked to investigate but before long his life is threatened, and he asks Frank and Joe 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
- 1977
- Pages
- 170
- Publisher
- Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780448089560
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“FRANK Hardy turned the controls of a stereo set.”
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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