- Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile literature, Mystery, Juvenile Fiction
Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an examination paper.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, NY: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006913634
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“"DON'T kid me, fellows," chubby Chet Morton, said, moving his metal detector about the Hardys' front lawn.”
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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