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A sleek new hydrofoil is scheduled to start ferrying passengers between Bayport and Cape Cutlass. But business enemies of the hydrofoil owner have stirred up a hornets' nest of violent opposition among small boat owners.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101073483
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“LOUD explosions, like a fusillade of gunfire, ech through the quiet streets of Bayport.”
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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