- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
First valuable antique weather vanes are stolen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Frank and Joe are hired to catch the thieves. Meanwhile, their father is asked to find a missing Navy employee and a top-secret government document. What is the connection between the missing weather vanes and the Pentagon spy? The final chapters of this thrilling mystery uncover a stunning revelation!
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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
- 1981
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., Bt Bound
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006918240
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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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