- Mystery, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Hardy Boys (Fictitious characters)
Difficult assignments are nothing new to the Hardy boys, and this one that takes them to the deep South is particularly challenging. Their mission: to vindicate a long-dead Confederate general, disgraced during the Civil War because he was accused of stealing hidden gold belonging to a bank.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., Penguin Young Readers Group
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780448089294
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“THE telephone in the Hardy home rang sharply as the clock struck four.”
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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