The Hardy Boys: The Clue of the Screeching Owl - Franklin W. Dixon

Frank & Joe Hardy are the teenage sons of famous private detective Fenton Hardy & his wife Laura. Together, (& sometimes from help with family & friends) they investigate all sorts of crimes & strange occurences.... The Clue Of The Screeching Owl was published in the US in 1962 & was the forty first in the series. The book first appeared in the UK in 1972 & was numbered 9 when it was published by Armada. The book open with Frank, Joe & their friend Chet Morton on the way to visit their father's friend Captain Maguire, a retired police chief. Captain Maguire's written to Frank & Joe's father, Fenton Hardy, ...  Read the complete review

The Clue of the Screeching Owl is the 41st book in the series of Hardy Boys books, released under the pen name Franklin W Dixon but written by a number of different ghost writers. The book is well written on the whole, and is one of the more believable of the later books in the original series. The latter half of the series tended to be a bit more extravagant with its plots, and saw the heroes, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, going off on missions that would be far more suited to adults, whether they be trained investigators, law officials or just your average Joe. The Clue Of The Screeching Owl gives us an adventure that the two teenage brothers just ...  Read the complete review