where he freelanced the boys adventure books, Dave Fearless. He started out as a journalist in Canada and moved to the U.S. Next, I wanted to know more about Leslie McFarlane, and so I did some research on him. While this was a good idea, they also changed other things in the books, which is why I read the old ones.
In 1959 all of the series of The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and The Dana Sisters were edited to remove racist comments. Then I read that he also wrote number 14 and 15 before he quit writing this series. And yet, I had only found one in this book, his second one. Also these three have the most obvious comments on racism in them. Leslie McFarlane wrote the first 11 books, and then while he is said to have written numbers 12, 13, and 14, the writing in these three books is different.
So, I spent some of this rainy day doing research on the internet. I wanted to see who wrote this book since they used various writers in the Hardy Boys series.
See, it's a perfect book for a rainy day. Storm clouds begin gathering, and next they are taking cover in a shed. They run out of the house and back to their bikes. Once inside they hear a loud eerie shrieking sound. They park their bikes under some trees and walk up to the house. There was a story about the last owner of the house having been murdered in it and his spirit remains. The Hardy Boys are riding down the road on their motorcycles on a nice sunny day and see this large house on a cliff and decide to go check it out because they had heard that it was now haunted. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927.What do you read on a rainy day? Me, I often pick up one of my Nancy Drew, Dana Sisters, or Hardy Boys books. All of them used a unique writing style that made them very recognizable as Stratemeyer product. This style influenced many other "youth adventure series" books that the Stratemeyer Syndicate also published, including the Nancy Drew series (designed as a corollary to The Hardy Boys written from the perspective of young girls), the Tom Swift adventure series, the Bobbsey Twins and other lesser-known series. This book is one of the "Original 10" Hardy Boys books and is an excellent example of the writing style used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate's writers. The book ranks 72nd on the Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List in the United States with 1,712,433 copies sold as of 2001. The House On The Cliff is the second book in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. Printing coincides w/ last title The Twisted Claw on front flap
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