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Leslie McFarlane Ghost of the Hardy Boys (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Ghost of the Hardy Boys : the Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives
- Publication Name
- Ghost of the Hardy Boys
- Title
- Ghost of the Hardy Boys
- Subtitle
- The Writer Behind the World’s Most Famous Boy Detectives
- Contributor
- Marilyn S. Greenwald (Introduction by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781567927177
- ISBN
- 9781567927177
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Humor
- Topic
- Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 28/07/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Leslie McFarlane was born in 1902 and raised in a small Canadian mining town. Driven to write, he skipped college and instead served an apprenticeship ship at a series of gritty daily newspapers. By the mid-1920s, McFarlane was worn down by the long hours and low pay. That's when he stumbled upon an advertisement: "Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted to Work from Publisher's Outlines." The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's-book publishing in America. Betting on his own talent and ambition, McFarlane quit newspaper work to write fiction full time. He was soon given an assignment that changed his life: to ghostwrite a brand-new adventure series called the Hardy Boys Mysteries. Adopting the nom de plume Franklin W. Dixon, McFarlane went on to write twenty-one Hardy Boys books, from The Tower Treasure in 1927 to The Phantom Freighter in 1947. When McFarlane died, in 1977, unofficial sales estimates of the Hardy Boys series had already topped fifty million copies. Ghost of the Hardy Boys-with an introduction by Marilyn S. Greenwald-shines like a flashlight through a dark night and illuminates the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring book series in history. Book jacket.
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Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
1567927173
ISBN-13
9781567927177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050386412
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghost of the Hardy Boys : the Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Humor
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.3.M3148z46
Reviews
"A must read by all fans of the Hardy Boys and even other Stratemeyer Syndicate series." -- The Hardy Boys Wiki "Leslie McFarlane has written more fiction than most authors on the North American Continent--lord knows how many millions of words. In this book, is not only a ghostwriter of the immortal Hardy Boys who speaks to us: it is a sensitive man who delights in recollection. McFarlane's memoirs have a special romance, lyrical and profound." --MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville, " 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 "Written with the same fluid, energetic, and humorous style that brought life to the sleuthing Hardy siblings, this is an enjoyable memoir from a writer who loved his job." -- Library Journal "A must read by all fans of the Hardy Boys and even other Stratemeyer Syndicate series." -- The Hardy Boys Wiki "Leslie McFarlane has written more fiction than most authors on the North American Continent--lord knows how many millions of words. In this book, is not only a ghostwriter of the immortal Hardy Boys who speaks to us: it is a sensitive man who delights in recollection. McFarlane's memoirs have a special romance, lyrical and profound." --MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2021-052625
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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