The Clue of the Screeching Owl

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The Clue of the Screeching Owl
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Original edition
Author Franklin W. Dixon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Hardy Boys
Genre Detective, mystery
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1962
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages177 pp
ISBN 0-448-08941-6
OCLC 26183934
Preceded by Mystery of the Desert Giant  
Followed by The Viking Symbol Mystery  

The Clue of the Screeching Owl is Volume 41 in the original Hardy Boys series of detective/mystery books published by Grosset & Dunlap. [1] This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by James Buechler in 1962 while he was eighteen or nineteen years old. [2]

Contents

Plot summary

When dogs and men suddenly disappear, and strange screams fill the night, fantastic stories of vengeful ghosts are almost believable. It is these strange happenings which bring Frank and Joe Hardy to the Pocono Mountains to help their father's friend, a retired police captain, solve the mystery of Black Hollow.

But when the Hardy Boys and Chet Morton arrive at Captain Thomas Maguire's cabin on the edge of the hollow, he has disappeared. In the woods the boys find only a few slim clues: a flashlight bearing the initials T.M., a few scraps of bright plaid cloth, and two empty shotgun shells which had been fired recently.

Frank and Joe are determined to find the captain, despite Chet's misgivings after a night of weird and terrifying screams. Neighbors of the missing man insist that the bloodcurdling cries are those of a legendary witch who stalks Black Hollow seeking vengeance.

Strangely, it is a small puppy that helps the boys disclose a most unusual and surprising set of circumstances, involving a mute boy, an elusive hermit, and a fearless puma trainer. Dixon, Franklin (1962). The Clue of the Screeching Owl . Grosset & Dunlap. pp.  177. ISBN   0-448-18941-0.

Television adaptation

This book was also adapted in 1977 as the episode "The Mystery of Witches Hollow" for the 1977 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series.

See also

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