- Fiction, Magic tricks, Mystery and detective stories, Kidnapping
The Hardy boys help out when a magicians' tournament is threatened by mysterious happenings.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Angus, Angus & Robertson, Armada
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671662288
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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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