Behind the Hardy Boys

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"Franklin W. Dixon never existed. Franklin W. Dixon was a "house name," owned by a company called the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which created and published the original Hardy Boys. From 1927 through 1946 each Hardy Boys book was secretly written by a man named Leslie McFarlane."

Sigh! And to think that I used to hunt down every Hardy Boys book ever written although I passionately hated the Case Files.

[Link to Behind the Hardy Boys]

“Behind the Hardy Boys” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3610] was published Friday, August 13th, 2010 at 8:00 pm by Patrix, filed under Asides, Books, and tagged as Books, children. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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http://pikeyspeak.blogspot.com Piker
I knew it wasn’t actually a guy named Franklin W Dixon, but I thought it was several writers masked under the FWD name.
http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix
@Piker: I was aware of it too although didn’t know the background of the real author. But I shared the link more from the perspective that I don’t believe I used to devour these books. FDW, the C-Bag of the past generation.
Amit
Why the *sigh* though? This discovery does nothing to the memories of hunting down HB books and enjoying them.
http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix
@Amit: Yeah not to that memory but to the quality of writing that now seems so lame and cliched.

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