Ghost of the Hardy Boys

The entertaining autobiography of the first ghostwriter of the Hardy Boys books. McFarlane, a Canadian, tells the story of how he came to write the books and the inside story of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its founder, Edward Stratemeyer.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 211 pages

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