Marilyn S. Greenwald. The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate.(Book Review)

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From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Date: 20050322
Author:Spadoni, Carl

Marilyn S. Greenwald. The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiv, 310 pp.; US $32.95. ISBN: 0821415476.

From the perspective of anonymous authorship, the Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane (1902-77) presents a bibliographical challenge. Watters's A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials 1628-1960 (2nd ed., 1972) is not especially helpful. Watters records that McFarlane is the author of two works of mystery fiction, Streets of Shadow and The Murder Tree, both published by Dutton in ...

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