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In trying to free their friend Holly from the clutches of a murderous mountain cult, the Hardy Boys find that the lunatic Rajah and his followers have spread to their own home town.Tags
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Great story! Couldn't put the book down. Happy to see Phil, Tony and Chet get a little involved in the case (since they mostly are not in the Casefiles). And the villain revealed as his true personage was a complete surprise. Overall, up there with Deathgame, Brother Against Brother and Crowning Terror as one of the best casefiles I've read so far.
The Hardy boys set out to rescue a friend but find themselves the victims of a human-sacrifice cult.
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623 Works 117,588 Members
Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is actually a pseudonym for any number of ghostwriters who have had the distinction of writing stories for the Hardy Boys series. The series was originally created by Edward Stratmeyer in 1926, the same mastermind of the Nancy Drew detective series, Tom Swift, the Rover Boys and other characters. While show more Stratmeyer created the outlines for the original series, it was Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane who breathed life to the stories and created the persona Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane wrote for the series for over twenty years and is credited with success of the early collection of stories. As the series became more popular, it was pared down, the format changed and new ghostwriters added their own flavor to the stories. Part of the draw of the Hardy Boys is that as the authors changed, so to did the times and the story lines. While there is no one true author of the series, each ghostwriter can be given credit for enhancing the life of this series and never unveiling that there really is no Franklin W. Dixon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Cult of Crime
- Original title
- Cult of Crime
- People/Characters
- Frank Hardy; Joe Hardy; Holly; Rajah
- Important places
- Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA; New York, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PZ7 .D644 .C — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.23)
- Languages
- Czech, English, Norwegian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 2
