Memoir

Ghost of the Hardy Boys

Name: Ghost of the Hardy Boys
ISBN: 9781567927177

Leslie McFarlane

#? in The Hardy Boys

1997·224 pages

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Memoir of Leslie McFarlane, the primary ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys mysteries, detailing his career with the Stratemeyer Syndicate and life as a journalist and author.

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Memoir of Leslie McFarlane, the primary ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys mysteries, detailing his career with the Stratemeyer Syndicate and life as a journalist and author.

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" Ghost of the Hardy Boys is an elegant book, full of charm and pathos and whimsy. The writing is restrained, the characterizations deep and rich, the humor nuanced." -- Washington Post As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in ...