My uncle had collected every one of the Hardy Boys detective books - and he passed them down to me when I was a kid. There was around 50 in the series at the time. They really hooked me on reading back then...read all of 'em...many of them twice.
It wasn't until years later I found out the author Leslie McFarlane (writing under the pseudonym
Franklin W. Dixon)...was a fellow Canuck. Always thought that was way cool.
Still recall the first one I read:
