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No doubt it was McFarlane who set the вЂњloneвЂќ and вЂњstyleвЂќ of the Hardy Boys books, which other writers followed in all the years since the original edition of The Tower Treasure. McFarlane was paid $ 125 for each early Hardy Boys book, as well as for his silence as a вЂњghost.вЂќ Leslie McFarlane also did the first four Dana Girls books for the Syndicate and worked on the Dave Fearless series, earlier books than the Hardy BoysвЂ™. Many other ghostwriters finished the remaining вЂњclassic,вЂќ or Grosset & Dunlap, titles through Volume 58 in 1979, but the real authors were Syndicate outliners and editors. The McFarlane Hardy Boys books are Volumes 1 (1927) to 16 and 22 to 24 (1945).

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Leslie McFarlane (1902-1977), a writer from northern Ontario, did the first books in the series from Edward StratemeyerвЂ™s and later his daughВtersвЂ™ outlines. For all of us though, it is reassuring dial the adventures of Frank and Joe have lasted for such a long time. However, then the generation that came before me probably preferred their вЂњthickвЂќ red and brown books with the white or yellow spines to the ones of my time. I like the look and feel of the books with wrap-around dust jackets of the Hardy Boys I first read (the format of the 1950s) much better than the glossy picture cover books of today, or worse yet - the paperback ones. Contemporary readВers also want to relax with heroes with whom they can identify. However, some of the changes are for the better, such as removing archaic slang and stereotyped descriptions of people of various ethnic groups, and even though the Hardy BoysВ® books are shorter and less detailed than they were many years ago, the revised mystery tales are still exciting to young readers. A great part of my own aversion to the changes in the Older Hardy Boys books and my scorn of the newer, shorter mysteries is that I like things to be the way I remembered them in my youth, a common reaction.

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