- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Mystery and detective stories
With only the slender clue of an arrow-shaped tie clasp, Frank and Joe Hardy pick up the trail of the cunning gang of thieves responsible for a wave of jewelry-store holdups. But their investigations are interrupted when a desperate plea for help comes from their widowed cousin who lives on a cattle ranch in New Mexico.
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Resolved, classical in form, earnest and unpretentious.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Collins, Penguin Young Readers Group, Armada
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- nor, English
- ISBN
- 9781101064986
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“THE Hardy boys' convertible, heading for the open country, whizzed past a road sign inscribed past a road sign inscribed Bayport City Limits.”
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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