- Children's stories, Mystery and detective stories, Teenage boy detectives, Boy detectives
Caught in their motorboat the Sleuth by a sudden storm at sea, Frank and Joe Hardy are helpless when the engine conks out. Drifting farther from shore amid the tumultuous waves, the boys are relieved to see the lights of a yacht.
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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
- 1951
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Collins, Penguin Young Readers Group, Armada
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101073582
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“THE Sleuth roared toward Barmet Bay as fast as its propeller could churn the sullen sea.”
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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