- Mystery, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories
Shortly after his arrival in the United States, a Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears. Then a valuable samurai sword, said to have belonged to the missing tycoon's family for generations, is stolen from an auction gallery in New York. Danger confronts them constantly as the Hardy Boys search for the solution to the puzzle.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., Penguin Young Readers Group
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006912972
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“"LOOK! A periscope!" Joe Hardy shouted.”
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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