The Mystery of the Desert Giant (Hardy Boys, Book 40) in hardcover format by Franklin W. Dixon. Published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1961. Available in Used - Very Good condition.
A pseudonym for a series of ghostwriters hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate to write The Hardy Boys and Ted Scott Flying Stories, along with some Nancy Drew crossover stories. [Leslie McFarlane][1] is the most well known of these writers having written the first Hardy Boys book along with twenty others.
[1]: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1822558A/Leslie_McFarlane
