Here in an office above the bank he wrote the early volumes in the Hardy Boys series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate which supplied outlines. The first volume, The Tower Treasure, was written on a secondhand Underwood in a cabin on Lake Ramsey, near Sudbury[…].
I scanned paragraphs of words I imagined some tight-lipped social worker punching out on a heavy black Underwood in her closet of an office almost two decades ago.
I fantasized life as a newspaper reporter, one of those guys in the movies who wears a hat with a press pass in the hatband and who gabbles impertinent questions. Back in the newsroom I'd smoke cigarettes as I pounded out my big story on a beat-up Underwood.