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03787aam a22003138i 4500 001 8D2724AC2A8411ED94E10AE24EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220902010023 008 211030s2022 mau e b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2021052625 020 $a 1567927173 020 $a 9781567927177 035 $a (OCoLC)1286070721 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d VIA $d OTP $d IMD $d SILO 043 $a n-cn--- 100 1 $a McFarlane, Leslie, $d 1902-1977, $e author. 245 10 $a Ghost of the Hardy boys : $b a memoir / $c Leslie McFarlane ; introduction by Marilyn S. Greenwald. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Godine, $c 2022. 300 $a xxii, 275 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Reprint. Originally published Methuen Publications. [1976]. 505 0 $a Fiction writer wanted -- You, too, can be Roy Rockwood -- Trial run -- Goodbye Springfield -- A book is a book is a buck -- Enter the Hardy Boys -- The tower treasure (for starters) -- Home-town boy returns -- A career in journalism -- Mr. Mason, "the boss around here" -- The northland -- Never tell the truth about an amateur show -- The good life -- Literature for the growing child -- The man who chased fire engines -- Sheet anchor to windward -- The last of the Hardy Boys -- The dispossessed ghost. 520 $a "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 a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was perhaps the first bestselling ghostwriter in history and this, at last, is his story-as much fun as the stories he wrote. In 1926, 23-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: "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. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood-for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries. The title of the series was The Hardy Boys. McFarlane's pseudonym would be Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane went on to write more than twenty Hardy Boys adventures. From The Tower Treasure in 1927 to The Phantom Freighter in 1947, it was McFarlane who turned Stratemeyer's one-page outlines into full-fledged classics filled with perilous scrapes, loyal chums, and breakneck races to solve the mystery. McFarlane kept his ghostwriting gig secret until late in life when his son urged him to share the story of being the real Franklin W. Dixon. By the time McFarlane died in 1977, unofficial sales estimates of The Hardy Boys series already topped 50 million copies. Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a fascinating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who loves a great story and who's curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children's book series in history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 700 1 $a Greenwald, Marilyn S., $e writer of introduction. 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031025.0 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209022817.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20221102012139.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220902010836.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D2724AC2A8411ED94E10AE24EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search