The Clue of the Screeching Owl

The Clue of the Screeching Owl is Volume 41 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.

The Clue of the Screeching Owl
Original edition
AuthorFranklin W. Dixon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Hardy Boys
GenreDetective, mystery
PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1962
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages177 pp
ISBN0-448-08941-6
OCLC26183934
Preceded byMystery of the Desert Giant 
Followed byThe Viking Symbol Mystery 

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by James Buechler in 1962 while he was eighteen or nineteen years old.[1]

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.

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.

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References

Summary taken from Dixon, Franklin (1962). The Clue of the Screeching Owl. Grosset & Dunlap. pp. 177. ISBN 0-448-18941-0.

  1. Keeline, James D. "Who Wrote the Hardy Boys? Secrets from the Syndicate Files Revealed" (PDF).


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