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Ghostwriters
From: Boys' Life
Date: 19970701
Author:Daily, Laura
IT'S no mystery the Hardy Boys are one of America's most popular teen-age crime-fighting teams. Since 1927, Frank and Joe Hardy have starred in more than 300 pulsepounding mystery books.
But you might be surprised to learn that a mystery surrounds the books' author, Franklin W. Dixon. We'll call it "The Secret of the Ghostly Writer."
Leaving the Readers Clueless This mystery begins in the early 1900's. Our chief suspect: Publisher Edward Stratemeyer. Some called him Carolyn Keene. Others knew him as Laura Lee Hope.
All were right. These and almost 60 others were Stratemeyer "pseudonyms" ...
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