Ghost of the Hardy Boys The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives [Audiobook] [#504496]

Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM575CRY | 2022 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Leslie McFarlane
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: "Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted." 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.