

- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
During Mr. Hardy's investigation of a ruthless gang of terrorists, Frank and Joe witness an explosion in the sky near an airborne dirigible owned by Quinn Air Fleet. They decide to look into the matter.
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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
- 1978
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, HarperCollins Publishers, Collins
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006928393
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“THE roar of an engine passing overhead vibrated through the Hardy house on Elm street one June morning.”
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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