The Phantom Freighter [SEP] publisher
The Phantom Freighter
The Phantom Freighter is Volume 26 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Amy McFarlane, the wife of long time Hardy Boys author Leslie McFarlane, in 1947. Between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this series were systematically revised as part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, Edward Stratemeyer's daughter. The original version of this book was shortened in 1970 by Priscilla Baker-Carr resulting in two similar stories
Keene, which the Syndicate also used for the Nancy Drew series of books. Although there are claims that his last "Hardy Boys" book, "The Phantom Freighter", was actually written by his wife Amy, his biographer Marilyn Greenwald concluded that this was unlikely.
In his 1976 autobiography "Ghost of the Hardy Boys", McFarlane says that "The Phantom Freighter" "was written in 1946 in motel rooms at night on a location in Nova Scotia when I was directing a film".
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