The Short-Wave Mystery

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name = The Short-Wave Mystery
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author = Franklin W. Dixon
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country = United States
language = English
series = The Hardy Boys
genre = Detective, Mystery novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = March 1, 1945
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 192 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Melted Coins
followed_by = The Secret Panel

"The Short-Wave Mystery" is Volume 24 in the original The Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset & Dunlap. This is the second to last Hardy Boys book ghost written by Leslie McFarlane, who wrote the first sixteen books, as well as books 22, 23, this one, number 24 and number 25, The Secret Panel in the series. McFarlane is considered to far and away be the best, and most influential, of all the ghost writers used for all the Stratemeyer Syndicate story series, of which there were a number or others in addition to the Hardy Boys. (See main Hardy Boys article or the article on Leslie McFarlane.)

Plot summary

The Hardy Boys travel to Canada (somewhere near Moosonee and Moose Factory) to solve the theft of stuffed animals (revised from radio parts in the first printing) and break up an industrial spy ring. It deals with a leak of info coming from LekTrex factory in their hometown of Bayport. There is also an info leak in a Philadelphia drug company. There turns out to also be stuffed animals with bugs inside them, broadcasting shortwave signals.