Reference books

Note: This list needs to be updated.

Linked titles point to the book's page at amazon.com. I apologize for any broken links. I will check and update these links sometime soon.

• Ghost of the Hardy Boys: An Autobiography by Leslie McFarlane. Methuen, 1976
• The Hardy Boys' Guide to Life. Simon & Schuster, October 2002
• The House on the Point: A Tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys by Benjamin Hoff. The House on the Cliff revisited, with "fresh dialogue and three-dimensional characters." October, 2002.
• Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland, by Gary Westfahl, has one chapter about the Hardy Boys books. Published 2000.
• The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Carol Billman, 1986
• The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys by Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. Simon & Schuster, 1998
• Yellowback Library, ed. Gil O'Gara - A monthly newsletter about series books. P.O. Box 36172, Des Moines, IA 50315. Subscriptions are $30/yr.
• Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys by Peggy Herz - About the TV show of the 70s. Scholastic, 1977
• Hardy and Hardy Investigations by Tony Carpentieri, 1997 (SynSine Press)
• The Lost Hardys: A Concordance by Robert L. Crawford (SynSine Press)
• The Bayport Companion by Charles Heffelfinger
• Frank and Joe Turn Blue by Tony Carpentieri (SynSine Press) - About the Hardy Boys picture covers
• Collector's Guide to Hardcover Boys' Series Books by E. Christian Mattson
• Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Deidre Johnson
• Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and Series Books by Deidre Johnson (editor)

If you know of a book that should be listed here, please give me a shout.