| | BBC - h2g2 - Franklin W Dixon - Author |
 | | Possibly the best-known to fans of all the anonymous authors, McFarlane is attributed with authorship for the bulk of the original Hardy Boys stories. |
 | | He is also the writer behind Volumes 15 and 16 of the Hardy Boys (The Sinister Signpost, A Figure in Hiding),and Volumes 22 through 24 (The Flickering Torch Mystery, The Melted Coins, The Shortwave Mystery). |
 | | Altogether he wrote 33 manuscripts for the syndicate, as well as the Hardy Boys he wrote as Roy Rockwood for the Dave Fearless series and as Carolyn Keane for the Dana Girls series. |
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