- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
Why is a wealthy sportsman so frightened by the serpent design on a mysterious balloon that he begs Frank and Joe Hardy to protect him? And who stole the ancient, life-size chess king which is to be presented to the winner of the world chess championship?
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group (L), Collins, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006928294
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“"Your father sounded desperate" Aunt Gertrude said, looking worried.”
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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