- Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Witches
There is no time for explanations when Mr. Hardy telephones Frank and Joe from the West Coast and sends them flying off to England to help his old friend Professor Rowbotham. Their stay in East Anglia begins with a weird omen, as they witness the bizarre funeral of an old witchmaster.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin Young Readers Group
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780001605565
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“As the giant jet hissed toward London, Joe Hardy looked out the window at the flaming sunrise.”
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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