I just saw that there's a coffee place in Brisbane called Hardy Boys.
I used to have some The Hardy Boys novels when I was a kid. I can't remember anything about them.
I've had issues with finding out that books I had were written by horrible people, so I just googled for Franklin W Dixon, the author of The Hardy Boys.
He doesn't exist.
The books are ghost written by different people who were paid $75-$125 per novel.
($125 was a 2 month salary for a newspaper reporter at the time)
Kojack 🦎
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