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Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name
Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings, or for any of a number of...
 used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane
Leslie McFarlane

Leslie McFarlane was a Canadian journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. McFarlane is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series using the Pen name#.22House.22 names Franklin W....
, a Canadian author being the first) who wrote The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
 novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Stratemeyer Syndicate

The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins and others....
 (now owned by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster....
). This pseudonym was also used for the Ted Scott Flying Stories
Ted Scott Flying Stories

The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W....
 series.







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Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name
Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings, or for any of a number of...
 used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane
Leslie McFarlane

Leslie McFarlane was a Canadian journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. McFarlane is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series using the Pen name#.22House.22 names Franklin W....
, a Canadian author being the first) who wrote The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
 novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Stratemeyer Syndicate

The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins and others....
 (now owned by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster....
). This pseudonym was also used for the Ted Scott Flying Stories
Ted Scott Flying Stories

The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W....
 series.

Bibliography

The following series or books have been published under the Franklin W. Dixon name:

Series


The Hardy Boys series
  • The Hardy Boys
    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
     (1927-2005)
  • Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: Be a Detective Mystery Stories
    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
     (1984-1985)
  • The Hardy Boys' Casefiles
    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
     (1987-1998)
  • Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller
    Ultra-Thriller

    The Ultra-Thriller series is a detective/action fiction series published between August 1992 and June 1993 by Archway Paperbacks . It was a spin-off of The Hardy Boys Casefiles and the Tom Swift IV series and joined boy inventor Tom Swift with the crime solving Hardy boys, Frank & Joe....
     (1992–1993)
  • The Hardy Boys are: The Clues Brothers
    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
     (1997–2000)
  • The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers
    Undercover Brothers

    The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers is a detective fiction series of books published by Aladdin Paperbacks , which replaced The Hardy Boys Digest paperbacks in early 2005....
     (2005-Present)
  • The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers Super Mystery
    Undercover Brothers

    The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers is a detective fiction series of books published by Aladdin Paperbacks , which replaced The Hardy Boys Digest paperbacks in early 2005....
     (2006-Present)
  • Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery
    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys is a series of juvenile criminal detection books, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy ....
     (with Carolyn Keene
    Carolyn Keene

    Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the author of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate....
    ) (2007-Present)


Other series
  • Ted Scott Flying Stories
    Ted Scott Flying Stories

    The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W....
     (1927-1943)


Individual novels

  • The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook
    The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook

    The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook is a special volume in the original The Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset & Dunlap.The book is composed of several didactic short fictional stories illustrating various actual crime detection methods featuring the Hardy Boys and their friends....
     (1959)
  • The Hardy Boys Handbook: Seven Stories of Survival (1980)
  • Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths (with Carolyn Keene) (1981)
  • Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths #2 (with Carolyn Keene) (1984)
  • Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Campfire Stories (with Carolyn Keene) (1984)
  • The Hardy Boys Ghost Stories (1984)


Known authors


Original series authors

  • Leslie McFarlane
    Leslie McFarlane

    Leslie McFarlane was a Canadian journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. McFarlane is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series using the Pen name#.22House.22 names Franklin W....
     — volumes 1–16 and 22–24
  • Harriet Adams
    Harriet Adams

    Harriet Adams was an United States juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career. She wrote many books in the Nancy Drew series and a few in the Hardy Boys series ....


Casefiles authors

  • Larry Mike Garmon
    Larry Mike Garmon

    is the author of several Young-adult fiction Mystery and Thriller as well as children's poetry and adult Horror fiction. He lives in Altus, Oklahoma, and is the creator of the fictional town of Junebug, Oklahoma and the stories....
     — volumes 27, 36, 39, 43, 46 and 126
  • Ron Goulart
    Ron Goulart

    Ron Goulart is an United States popular culture historian and Mystery fiction, fantasy and science fiction List of science fiction authors.The prolific Goulart's first professional publication was a reprint in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; a parody of a pulp magazine letters column, it was originally published in the Univ...
     — 23, 30 and 44
  • Steven Grant
    Steven Grant

    Steven Grant is an United States comic-book writer best known for his 1985-1986 Marvel Comics limited series Punisher, with artist Mike Zeck ....
     — 3, 6, 14, 19, 29 and 62
  • Rick Oliver — 33, 40, 45, 50, 59, 69, 77, 85, 93, 100
  • Jonathan Healy — 112, 127
  • David L. Robbins — 57


Some of these authors are unverified but probable.

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