The Secret of the Hardy Boys
Greenwald, Marilyn S.![The Secret of the Hardy Boys](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/222/22236320/CHSBZCOP0322236320.jpg)
The author of the Hardy Boys Mysteries was, as millions of readers know, Franklin W. Dixon. Except there never was a Franklin W. Dixon. He was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, the savvy founder of a children's book empire that also published the Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins, and Nancy Drew series.