The Secret of Wildcat Swamp Formats:

1) Tweed/Wrap/Orange Gretta [First book not to be released in a "brown" format]
2) Tweed/Wrap/Brown Multipic
3) PC/Brown Multipic
4) PC/White Multipic

Illustrators:

1) Bill Gillies - 1952
2) Rudy Nappi - 1969

Authors:

1) William Dougherty
2) Priscilla Baker-Carr

Notes:

1) From James Keeline (originally in http://issuefive.bayportgazette.com): William Finn Halstead III wrote the original draft of volume 31, THE SECRET OF WILDCAT SWAMP, but it was not accepted by the publisher.  William M. Dougherty wrote the published version of the story.  He also wrote volume 33, THE YELLOW FEATHER MYSTERY.  Both stories feature plots which are embarrassingly close to stories written years earlier by Albert Capwell Wyckoff.  Hallstead did not learn that his version of the story was the published version of WILDCAT SWAMP until recently when the authorship lists from the Stratemeyer Syndicate became available.

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