GHOST OF THE HARDY BOYS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY LESLIE MCFARLANE Review

[MacGyver]

Cool! Thanks for the link.

[tomswift2002]

Wow! Check out this listing on Amazon.com!

It would seem maybe this book is getting a re-release on June 7, 2022?

Chapters here in Canada is reporting that the release date is being delayed a week until the 14th.

[MacGyver]

Chapters here in Canada is reporting that the release date is being delayed a week until the 14th.

Yeah- I thought I saw something about that recently. Thanks for the reminder.

[tomswift2002]

I just received in the mail this morning, the NEW 2022 Hardcover edition of Leslie McFarlane's Ghost of the Hardy Boys.  Interestingly, a historians note reveals some tentative titles that McFarlane was considering in the 70's, such as The Bayport Boys, The Hardys of Bayport & How I Became Franklin W. Dixon. 

Besides the hardcover, there is also a digital edition available, although I would recommend the hardcover as the publisher "Godine" has done the cover in the style of the 1962-1987 PC covers of the Grosset & Dunlap Hardy Boys.  So there's no dust jacket, just paper on board.  The front cover reminds me of the 1950 cover for Footprints Under The Window (which was published in PC from 1962-65). The spine also looks similar to the spines from that 62-87 era and it has a cameo of McFarlane, but unlike the Methuen edition from 1976, the cameo is based on a photo of McFarlane from the 1920's (which is included in the book), whereas in 76 the cameo was based on McFarlane in 1975-76.  The back seems to be a mashup of the 62-87 G&D back cover, and the 1970's Collins UK hardcovers.  But even the feel of the cover feels like the Collins hardcovers.