- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Detective and mystery stories
When thieves hijack a collection of stuffed animals from a country auction, Frank and Joe Hardy pursue the getaway car and are drawn into a thrilling mystery. The recently acquired interest of their best pal, chubby Chet Morton, in taxidermy as a hobby adds fresh twists to the puzzle.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Collins, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Young Readers Group
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101064948
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“DIDAHDIT ... dahdahdididit ... didididahdah ... dahdidahdit ... Frank Hardy's fingers deftly pounded out the CW-key sign-off: "R 73 C U AGN AR WB2EKA DE WB2XEJ SK.”
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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