- Islands, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Juvenile Fiction
The Hardy boys are elated over their good luck when wealthy Elroy Jefferson invites them to spend Christmas vacation at his private retreat on Cabin Island. But when Frank and Joe make a reconnaissance trip in their iceboat the Sea Gull to the island, a belligerent stranger orders them off.
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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
- 1929
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Collins, Grossett & Dunlap, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006923732
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“"WHAT a reward!" Joe Hardy exclaimed.”
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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