Frank Merriwell's Foes

Frank Merriwell's Foes: is the third in the Frank Merriwell Series. Frank has received a strange letter from his Uncle Asher asking him to come home ASAP. His uncle has seen a ghost of his brother, Frank's father, who has been dead for quite a long time. Frank confronts the "ghost," only to learn it is his father in real life, searching for a ring that will lead to a treasure. Meanwhile, Frank and his buddies participate in a track and field meet at Fardale, survive a shipwreck and save one of Frank's girl friends who is trapped in a burning house. Whew!

William George "Gilbert" Patten (October 25, 1866 January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish. At fourteen, when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop. When he returned home and told his father that he would become an author, he was given thirty days to prove himself. He sold his first two stories in this period to the dime novel company of Erastus Flavel Beadle, and combined his resumed studies for the next four years with writing and publishing stories. When he was twenty, he married Alice Gardner, and in 1892 their son Harvan Barr Patten was born. They later divorced and Gilbert Patten would marry twice more.

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