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| 1924 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The River Trail 20,000 Adventure $300 An Imposter 24,000 Adventure $475 Total $775 |
| 1942 Title Length Publisher Payment Mr. Meek Makes a Speech $100 You Can't run Away $100 The Girl From Outside $100 They Couldn't Say No $100 The Cat Called Claudius $150 The Election of Mr. Bopp $100 Make Way for A Star $100 Meet Miss Mongonya $100 Blitz at Blizzard Lake $150 Hardy Boys 1943? $180 Hockey Novelette $150 Total $1330 |
| 1925 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The Black Suit 3,000 Adventure $65 In the Blizzard 15,000 Adventure $300 The Cabin and The Spring 5,000 Adventure $100 The King of Watabaneck 24,000 Adventure $475 Agent of the Hawk 24,000 Adventure $480 The Knife 5,000 West $120 Total $1540 |
| 1926 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Dave Fearless Under The Ocean 30,000 Stratemeyer $100 Dave Fearless In the Black Jungle 30,000 Stratemeyer $100 Hill of Gold 25,000 Everybody's $525 Dave Fearless At the South Pole 30,000 Stratemeyer $100 Dave Fearless Caught by Malay Pirates 30,000 Stratemeyer $100 Dave Fearless On the Lost Brig 30,000 Stratemeyer $100 The Tower Treasure - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 Total $1350 |
| 1927 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The House on the Cliff - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 The Root House 7,000 MacLean's $125 The Mystery of the Old Mill-Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 Be Yourself - Musical Comedy $150 Mystery Ranch 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 Hunting for Hidden Gold - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 The Man Who Looked Back 4,000 Mystery Stories $80 Treaty Money 4,500 Mystery Stories $90 Front Page Stuff 16,000 Real Detective Tales $160 The Inside Story 4,500 Mystery Stories $90 The Other Glove 17,000 Mystery Stories $350 Sketches 4,000 Goblin, Mayfair $45 Total $1850 |
| 1928 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Cook Tips 3,000 Real Detective Tales $30 A Matter of Initials 2,000 Real Detective Tales $20 A Sentimental Pilgrim 6,000 MacLean's $75 The Red-Headed Man 15,000 Mystery Stories $300 Justice by Proxy 3,000 Mystery Stories $60 A Chain of Evidence 4,500 Mystery Stories $90 The Wrong Wrist 4,000 MacLean's $75 Hunted 18,000 Mystery Stories $360 A Happy Ending 2,000 Vanity Fair $45 Dead Man's Feast 21,000 Clues $430 Andy's Ashes 2,500 Star Weekly $25 Fuzzy Face 4,500 Short Stories $90 The Shore Road Mystery - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 Verbera's Teeth 2,500 Star Weekly $25 The Death Score 15,000 Mystery Stories $295 The Mystery of Number Nine MacLean's $185 The Pillar of Fire 4,500 Red-Blooded Stories $90 The Mail-Order Bride 3,500 Star Weekly $35 Absalone and Their Wolf 3,500 Star Weekly $35 Absalone Answers an Ad 2,300 Star Weekly $23 Murder on the Dead Pine Trail 6,000 Mystery Stories $120 Murder on the Dead Pine Trail 6,000 Star Weekly $50 The Hill of Gold 25,000 Star Weekly $60 Secret of the Caves - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 The Far Horizons 5,000 MacLean's $100 Streets of Shadow 75,000 Munsey's Magazine $900 Five Clock Mystery 5,500 Goblin $35 The Snow Shoe Trail 3,500 Goblin $35 Murphy Kills Two Birds 4,500 Detective Fiction $90 Weekly Total $3928 |
| 1929 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The Breed of Pioneers 6,000 MacLean's $100 Clue of the Thumb 2,000 Goblin $35 Lover's Secret Code 2,000 Goblin $35 Uncle Absalone's Friend Fred 5,000 Star Weekly $75 Trouble at Coogan's Rest 6,000 Short Stories $120 The Corpse in the Snow 15,000 Clues $315 Beware of the Greeks 3,000 Detective Fiction Weekly $60 The Graveyard Mystery 20,000 Clues $375 The Man in the Deuce 2,000 Goblin $35 Uncle Absalone Minds Nanny 5,000 Star Weekly $75 Rivals of the Snows ( River Trail ) Star Weekly $90 The Mystery of Cabin Island-Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $150 Pulp and Paper Articles $200 The Great Airport Mystery - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $150 The Black Mansion Murder 23,000 All-Star Detective $460 Three Days More 5,000 MacLean's $80 The Root House 7,000 Argosy (England) $70 A Sentimental Pilgrim Argosy (England) $70 The Far Horizons Argosy (England) $60 Murder at Blizzard Lake 16,000 All-Star Detective $330 The Laughing Cat Mystery 30,000 All-Star Detective $600 The Legacy Code 2,000 Goblin $25 The Secret Diary 2,000 Goblin $25 The Crime at Number Three 20,000 All-Star Detective $425 Total $3960 |
| 1930 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The Red Hand 5,000 MacLean's $75 The Strangler 20,000 All-Star Detective $425 Streets of Shadow, Royalty Dutton $200 The House in the Valley 15,000 All-Star Detective $350 The Portage Murder 15,000 All-Star Detective $400 The Inside Story 4,000 Scotland Yard $10 Killer's Pride 6,000 Clues $125 What Happened at Midnight - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $150 Who Closed the Door - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 The Good Cow of M. Joliet MacLean's $100 Streets of Shadow, Royalty Dutton $175 Streets of Shadow, Reprint $250 The Murder Tree 75,000 Complete Detective $750 The Ghost Canoe 18,000 All-Star Detective $375 The Hooded Raider 15,000 All-Star Detective $400 The Dignity of Pierre Laboume 6,000 Star Weekly $75 Streets of Shadow, Syndicate $100 Total $4085 |
| 1931 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment An Ear for Music 5,000 Star Weekly $60 Sob Stuff - Reprint $40 Streets of Shadow, Royalty $40 Is This Necessary? - Sketch $15 Killer's Pride - England Corner $43 The Man Who Looked Back - England $50 Black Monday 25,000 Five Novels $500 Solid Gold Wall Paper 5,000 Star Weekly $55 Gaston The Great 5,000 MacLean's $100 The Spider Lake Mystery 15,000 Detective Fiction Weekly $225 While The Clock Ticked - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $125 The Murder Tree, Royalty Dutton $225 Third Choice of Gabriel Potoin MacLean's $100 Bush Brothers 5,000 West $70 El Dorado in the North West 5,000 MacLean's $100 It Wasn't All Luck 5,000 MacLean's $100 Oats 1,800 Detective Fiction Weekly $18 Streets of Shadow, Advance English Royalty $38 The Ghost of Fong Woo Canadian $50 Stratemeyer Percentage $500 Total $2454 |
| 1932 Title Length Publisher Payment The Elbow of Desitiny 5,000 Complete Detective $30 Grub and Goliath 5,000 Top-Notch $70 The Murder Tree, Royalty Dutton $275 The Duplicity of Emile 5,000 MacLean's $85 Man Hunt 15,000 Top-Notch $150 Pass that Puck 3,000 Nelson's Magazine $30 Grany and the Gold Raiders 15,000 Top-Notch $150 The Duty of Corporal True 5,000 Star Weekly $45 Footprints Under the Window - Hardy Boys 40,000 Stratemeyer $85 The Best Old Town 5,000 Canadian $50 The Murder Tree, Royalty Dutton $40 Wolf Panic 4,000 Field and Stream $25 Oats 1,800 Corner - England $15 The Man Who Looked Back - Germany $5 Throwing Down McCloskin 5,000 Sport Stories $65 Beating Depression on a Dime 1,500 Canadian $15 Total $1135 |
| 1933 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Montville Boy Makes Good 5,000 MacLean's $85 The Sun Also Sets 1,500 Canadian Mining Journal $8 By The Light of the Study Lamp - Dana Girls 40,000 Stratemeyer $85 The Wrist Shot 5,000 Sport Stories $65 Splendor of Life 5,000 Star Weekly $35 The Master Mariner 2,000 Star Weekly $20 Courtship of Uncle Matthew 6,000 Canadian Home Journal $75 Anything For a Laugh 5,000 Clues $60 A Gamble with Guilt 5,000 Top-Notch $55 Secret at Lone Tree Cottage - Dana Girls 40,000 Stratemeyer $85 The Little Brothers of Mademoiselle 5,000 MacLean's $85 The Snow Hawk 20,000 Top-Notch $200 In the Shadow of the Tower - Dana Girls 40,000 Stratemeyer $95 The Murder Trail 15,000 Top-Notch $150 Date With Danger 15,000 Top-Notch $150 Killer's Valley 16,000 Top-Notch $160 Snow Hawks's Last Trail 15,000 Top-Notch $150 Four Kinds of Luck 6,000 Sport Stories $60 Kiernan's Handicap 13,000 Sport Stories $130 Goal Getter 6,500 Sport Stories $65 Total $1818 |
| 1934 Title Length Publisher Payment My Girl Myrtle 5,000 MacLean's $85 The Mark on the Door - Hardy Boys 50,000 Stratemeyer $85 The Murder Tree - French Rights $100 The Lost River Mystery Top-Notch $120 The Great Bass Feud 5,000 Country Gentleman $400 The Eye Witness 5,000 Detective Fiction Weekly $90 A Crack at the Champ 12,500 Sport Stories $125 The Game and the Job 5,000 Sport Stories $60 Trails of '34 5,000 MacLean's $75 A Three-Cornered Mystery - Dana Girls 50,000 Stratemeyer $100 Stampede to Sturgeon River MacLean's $65 The Long Lac Rune MacLean's $65 The Hockey Highway Sport Stories $380 The Mare Hortense Country Gentleman $400 Northland Edition Associated Dailies $300 Resurrection River, Revision and Editing $150 Total $2600 |
| 1935 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Tiger Jack's Daughter 5,000 MacLean's $85 Trail of the Dead 15,000 Clues $150 Trail of '34, Reprint Magazine Digest $10 The Hidden Harbor Mystery - Hardy Boys Stratemeyer $90 The Great Bass Feud Passing Show $60 Baby Needs Shoes 15,000 MacLean's $300 Baldwin the Bouncer 5,000 Sport Stories $50 The Fighting Prospector 12,000 Sport Stories $120 The Future of Gerard 5,000 MacLean's $125 Baldwin's Big Mistake 5,000 Sport Stories $55 Murder at Lone Wolf 23,000 MacLean's $450 Baldwin Eats a Pie 5,000 Sport Stories $50 Denison's Raid Tidbits $60 The Mare Hortense Storyteller $100 Dynamite Flynns Sport Stories $380 Man From Stormy Mountain Dynamic Adventures $150 Metropolis of Nickel MacLean's $60 Sudbury Star Work $175 Drunkard from Dunkelburg MacLean's $100 Baldwin's Big Chance Sport Stories $55 T&NO Cheques $100 Total $2725 |
| 1936 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Clarence Gets Tough Sport Stories $120 The Sinister Signpost - Hardy Boys Stratemeyer $100 Alias Killer Keene Dynamic Adventures $135 Hockey Comes First Sport Stories $150 The Hickory Dodger Sport Stories $75 The Wolf Top-Notch $55 The Mare Hortense - Swedish Rights $7 T&NO Cheques $100 Doughnut Fighter Sport Stories $150 Just Another Ball Game Sport Stories $75 A Trap for the Bears Sport Stories $75 Drunkard from Dunkelburg Capper Farmer $75 The Two Pucketeers Sport Stories $465 Courtship of Uncle Matthew Hollands $85 Matter of Principle Canadian $40 The Lunacy of Living MacLean's $150 Balwin's Lost Dog Sport Stories $60 Too Slow to Count Sport Stories $70 Battling Barnstormers Sport Stories $125 The Future of Gerard Capper Farmer $75 A Figure in Hiding - Hardy Boys Stratemeyer $100 Playmaker Sport Stories $75 Elmer from the Arctic Sport Stories $75 Romance on Ice MacLean's $125 Death Rides the Drum Top-Notch $60 The Murder Face Toronto Star $50 Pay Night in Ghost Town Top-Notch $350 Total $3072 |
| 1937 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment The Fighter From Wayback Sport Stories $350 Baldwin Has a Toothache Sport Stories $60 Baldwin and the Gabby Guy Sport Stories $60 Baldwin's Big Revenge Sport Stories $60 The Little Men Successful Farming $200 Baldwin Takes Advice Sport Stories $55 Baldwin's Ten Mile Dash Sport Stories $55 Drive Your Own Race Sport Stories $75 Trouble on Skates $550 The Little Men MacLean's $150 MacLean Work - Max Brand Serial $75 MacLean Editorial Work $880 Christmas Tree Trail MacLean's $150 Matter of Principle Argosy $100 Pay Night in Ghost Town $50 How Deep is Down MacLean's $160 Hockey Broadcast $50 Total $3080 |
| 1938 Title Length (Words) Publisher Payment Many Towns - Article MacLean's $80 To The Winner Knockout $100 ? of Conflict - Serial MacLean's $250 ?? MacLean's $150 Grandpere Rides Again Country Gentleman $400 Box Car Fighter Sport Stories $150 Storm Driver Sport Stories $150 One Wallop Willie Liberty $300 Goalie Garrison's Goal Sport Stories $90 Home Town Hero Sport Stories $157 Christmas Tree Trail Women's World $75 Runout Powder CNR Magazine $75 Skating Fool Sport Stories $90 Don't Bet on Hockey Sport Stories $165 Christmas Tree Trail - England $15 Stanley Cup Jitters Sport Stories $90 Lucky Stick Thrilling Sport $50 Third Chore of Gabriel Potoin Capper Farmer $75 Total $2402 |
| 1939 Title Length Publisher Payment The Kingpin Kid $570 The Great Cook Claude $125 Front Page Center $450 Billy the Kid $60 Conacher $60 Referee Short $90 Ways of Hagard - Revise $175 MacLean's Work $960 Wakefield Awake $350 Total $2840 |
| 1940 Title Length Publisher Payment Wakeville Awake $600 The Voice of Doupf $150 Grandpaw Logaby's Leg $100 Bud Master, Referee $150 Pepper Pot $90 Hungry Fighters $150 Canadian Christmas 1940 $50 Canadian Christmas 1940 $25 Kelsey Skates Again $300 Drunkard from Dunkelburg $75 Christmas Tree Trail $75 Total $1765 |
| 1941 Title Length Publisher Payment My Girl Myrtle $100 MacLean's Work $40 How to Play a Harp $50 Tiger Jack's Daughter $100 Windfall for Willie $100 Semitruth for McKane $100 Honeymoon for Four $100 Breed of Pioneers $100 Writer's Conference $12.50 Special Work $37.50 Pardon My Glove $100 Good Old Twenty Fourth $100 A Hat for Miss McKane $100 Something to Remember $100 How Old is a Hen $100 The Bear Came Over the Mountain $100 Good Goalies are Scarce $135 Doodads on the Doohickey $150 The Remarkable Geraldine $100 The Root-House $100 Three Days More $100 Murder at Midnight $100 Merry Christmas McKane $150 One-Shot McKane $100 Romance on Ice $100 Merry Christmas McKane $100 One-Horse Open Sleight $100 Total $2545 |
| Other Works by Leslie McFarlane |
| The following list of works by Leslie McFarlane comes from a personal diary which Leslie kept. In 1998, at the Haileybury Hardy Boys Reunion, Brian McFarlane, Leslie's son, donated a copy of the diary to the Haileybury Heritage Museum. The list includes the titles, length, and publisher of each work and the payment Leslie received. The second part of this page summarizes his work following 1943. This includes books, articles, scripts, radio, television, and film. |
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| Other Works Credits: Hardy Boys' Haileybury Connection by Bruce Taylor The Writing of Leslie Charles McFarlane by James D. Keeline |
| Published Works 1926 - Dave Fearless on the Ship of Mystery 1926 - Dave Fearless at Whirlpool Point ( Not published ) X Bar X Boys 'The Border Patrol' ( Not Published ) 1943 - Hardy Boys 'The Flickering Torch Mystery 1944 - Hardy Boys 'The Melted Coins' 1945 - Hardy Boys 'The Short-Wave Mystery' 1947 - Hardy Boys 'The Phantom Freighter' ( Written by his wife Amy ) 1965 - The Last of the Great Picnics 1966 - McGonigle Scores 1972 - Fire in the North 1972 - Haileybury Fire 1975 - A Kid in Haileybury 1975 - Agent of the Falcon 1975 - The Mystery of Spider Lake 1975 - Squeeze Play 1975 - The Dynamite Flynns 1976 - The Snow Hawk 1976 - Breakaway 1976 - Ghost of the Hardy Boys |
| Film - National Film Board of Canada 1944 - Target - Berlin, Script 1944 - Ships and Men, Director/Script 1945 - Guests of Honour, Script 1945 - Spotting Fall with Radar, Producer 1946 - Holiday at School, Director/Producer/Script 1947 - The boy who stopped Niagara, Director/Script 1947 - Ticket to Jasper, Co-Producer 1948 - Introduction to Gaspe, Director/Producer 1948 - Invisible Armour, Director/Producer/Script 1949 - Welcome Neighbour!, Director/Script 1950 - A Friend at the Door, Director/Script 1951 - Toronto Boom Town 1951 - Royal Journey, Script 1951 - Canada Carries On, Director/Script 1951 - V for Volunteers, Director/Script 1953 - Canada at the Coronation, Script 1953 - Here's Hockey, Director/Script 1953 - Herring Hunt, Script 1953 - Highlights from Royal Journey, Script 1954 - The Homeless Ones, Producer/Script 1954 - Wardens of Waterton, Producer 1955 - Bottleneck, Director/Script 1955 - No Longer Vanishing, Commentary 1955 - Dramatizations, Director 1956 - Strike in Town, Director 1957 - Smoke Screen, Director 1957 - Snow Fighters, Director/Narrator 1958 - The Man from Karachi, Director/Script 1958 - The Quest, Script 1962 - The Discovery of Insulin, Script |
| CBC ( Canadian Broadcasting Corp. ) Television 1953 - The Shadow Before 1954 - Countless Keller 1954 - Guest Shot 1955 - Alias Mr. Pollard 1956 - Black on the Moon 1958 - The Other Man 1958 - Biography of a Crime 1961 - The Conquest of Cabbage Town 1961 - The Touch of Light 1961 - Love Story-1910 1962 - The Gopher Colony 1962 - The Eye-Opener Man and the Wages of Zin 1962 - That Gold Belongs to Uncle Angus 1963 - Son of a Hundred Kings 1963 - The Man who Cheered the Leafs 1963 - Don't Shake the Family Tree 1964 - Pilgrim, Why Do You Come? 1964 - The Eye Opener Man and Robbie Burns 1964 - Grubstake for the Eyeopener Man 1965 - The Blind Eye & The Deaf Ear 1965 - McGonigal Skates Again 1965 - The Scotch 1965 - The Eye-opener Man 1966 - The Great Casa Loma Purchase 1967 - Hatch's Mill 1969 - Brotherly Love 1971 - Gold is Where You Find it - Maybe |
| Film 1947 - The Boy Who Stopped Niagara 1950 - A Friend at the Door 1969 - Bonanza, Script |
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