...or Chester, as his aunt (I believe) insisted on calling him - probably the only person to use his given name! In retrospect (I read 75-80 Hardy Boys books a

...or Chester, as his aunt (I believe) insisted on calling him - probably the only person to use his given name! In retrospect (I read 75-80 Hardy Boys books as a kid, many of them over and over), it is amazing how formula-based the story trajectories were and how one-dimensional all the characters were. I bet with some practice, an author could churn out a book in the time it took me to read one.