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The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarland and the Stratemeyer Syndicate.(Book Review)

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From: Journal of Social History
Date: 20051222
Author:Zumoff, J.A.

The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarland and the Stratemeyer Syndicate By Marilyn S. Greenwald (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiv plus 310pp. $32.95).

Surely the Hardy Boys series of adolescent mystery novels is one of the most widely read series in twentieth-century American history. This book, written by a professor of journalism at Ohio University, tells the story of Charles Leslie "Les" McFarlane, the Canadian ghostwriter behind more than twenty of the books; it also explores the other "secret" behind the series, the businessman Edward Stratemeyer who ...

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