[post_page_title]Mystery writer[/post_page_title]
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books display names on their covers, of authors Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene respectively. However, neither of these names are real, as neither series of books had one singular author.
Rather, the books were written by ghostwriters, who were paid a minimal fee of $125 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Numerous different people wrote for the series, with one of them even being Harriet Stratemeyer, the daughter of series creator Edward Stratemeyer.
