The Clue of the Screeching Owl

The Clue of the Screeching Owl
Original edition
Author	Franklin W. Dixon
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Hardy Boys
Genre	Detective, Mystery novel
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date	1962
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	177 pp
ISBN	0-448-08941-6
OCLC	26183934
Preceded by	Mystery of the Desert Giant
Followed by	The Viking Symbol Mystery

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

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.

References

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

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

The Hardy Boys

Series

Original	The Tower Treasure The House on the Cliff The Secret of the Old Mill The Missing Chums Hunting for Hidden Gold The Shore Road Mystery The Secret of the Caves The Mystery of Cabin Island The Great Airport Mystery What Happened at Midnight While the Clock Ticked Footprints Under the Window The Mark on the Door The Hidden Harbor Mystery The Sinister Signpost A Figure in Hiding The Secret Warning The Twisted Claw The Disappearing Floor The Mystery of the Flying Express The Clue of the Broken Blade The Flickering Torch Mystery The Melted Coins The Short-Wave Mystery The Secret Panel The Phantom Freighter The Secret of Skull Mountain The Sign of the Crooked Arrow The Secret of the Lost Tunnel The Wailing Siren Mystery The Secret of Wildcat Swamp The Crisscross Shadow The Yellow Feather Mystery The Hooded Hawk Mystery The Clue in the Embers The Secret of Pirates' Hill The Ghost at Skeleton Rock The Mystery at Devil's Paw The Mystery of the Chinese Junk Mystery of the Desert Giant The Clue of the Screeching Owl The Viking Symbol Mystery The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior The Haunted Fort The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge The Secret Agent on Flight 101 Mystery of the Whale Tattoo The Arctic Patrol Mystery The Bombay Boomerang Danger on Vampire Trail The Masked Monkey The Shattered Helmet The Clue of the Hissing Serpent The Mysterious Caravan The Witchmaster's Key The Jungle Pyramid The Firebird Rocket The Sting of the Scorpion

Digest	Night of the Werewolf Mystery of the Samurai Sword The Pentagon Spy The Apeman's Secret The Mummy Case Mystery of Smugglers Cove The Stone Idol The Vanishing Thieves The Outlaw's Silver The Submarine Caper (retitled Deadly Chase) The Four-Headed Dragon The Infinity Clue Track of the Zombie The Voodoo Plot The Billion Dollar Ransom Tic-Tac-Terror Trapped at Sea Game Plan for Disaster The Crimson Flame The Skyfire Puzzle Cast of Criminals Fear on Wheels Day of the Dinosaur Crime in the Kennel Cross-Country Crime The Search for the Snow Leopard Eye on Crime The Caribbean Cruise Caper The Hunt for the Four Brothers A Will to Survive Daredevils A Game Called Chaos Training for Trouble The End of the Trail Skin & Bones Crime in the Cards Past And Present Danger Trouble Times Two The Castle Conundrum In Plane Sight Passport to Danger Warehouse Rumble The Dangerous Transmission

Casefiles	Dead on Target Evil, Inc. Cult of Crime See No Evil Perfect Getaway Street Spies Running on Empty River Rats

Undercover Brothers	Extreme Danger Running On Fumes Boardwalk Bust Operation: Survival Top Ten Ways to Die Martial Law Blown Away Hurricane Joe Trouble in Paradise The Mummy's Curse Hazed Death And Diamonds Bayport Buccaneers Murder At The Mall Pushed Foul Play Feeding Frenzy Comic Con Artist Deprivation House (Murder House trilogy) Murder House Double Trouble (Double Trouble trilogy) Galaxy X (Galaxy X trilogy) The Children of the Lost (Lost Mystery trilogy)

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