title: The Flickering Torch Mystery (Hardy Boys, Book 22)
author:  Franklin W. Dixon 
description: Franklin W. Dixon is a pen name used by a variety of authors writing for the classic series, The Hardy Boys. The first and most well-known "Franklin W. Dixon" was Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author who contributed 19 of the first 25 books in the series. Other writers who have adopted the pseudonym include Christopher Lampton, John Button, Amy McFarlane, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
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  # On With Torchy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Sewell Ford
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. CHANGING IT FOR VEE
  
  
  CHAPTER II. PULLING A SLEUTH STUNT
  
  
  CHAPTER III. WHEN IRA SHOWED SOME PEP
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. TORCHY BUGS THE SYSTEM
  
  
  CHAPTER V. BREEZING BY WITH PEGGY
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. GLOOM SHUNTING FOR THE BOSS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. COMING IN ON THE DRAW
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. GLADYS IN A DOUBLE BILL
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. LATE RETURNS ON POPOVER
  
  
  CHAPTER X. MERRY DODGES A DEAD HEAT
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE PASSING BY OF BUNNY
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE GLAD HAIL FOR TORCHY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. AUNTY FLAGS A ROSY ONE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. CUTTING IN ON THE BLISS
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. BEING SICCED ON PERCEY
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. HOW WHITY GUNKED THE PLOT
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. TORCHY GETS A THROUGH WIRE
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Al Haines
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Frontispiece: “Well if I ever! Look where your shoulders come!”
  
  
  says Vee.]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ON WITH TORCHY
  
  
  BY
  
  
  SEWELL FORD
  
  
  
  
  
  AUTHOR OF
  
  