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When Frank and Joe Hardy arrive at a film and television studio to help a friend, they discover that screenwriter Bennet Fairburn has been murdered. The brothers go undercover as gofers, slipping into the heart of the studio’s production crew. As they follow clues hidden in scripts and studio schedules, a series of dangerous accidents orchestrated by the killer keeps the brothers on the brink of danger. With the stakes high and their own lives in peril, Frank and Joe must solve the mystery before their own names become part of the studio’s deadly history.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Franklin W. Dixon
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