The Spider's Net | Book 6 - Chapter 9
The boys passionately follow a clue about a "Tre-men -dous" spider.
The boys passionately follow a clue about a "Tre-men -dous" spider.
David and Shaun try to remember what this book was about.
The boys alternate between treasure hunting and looking for their kidnapped friends.
The boys don't die from a grenade.
The boys have a strategy. Then someone throws a hand grenade at them.
This is either a great, bad chapter, or an awful, wonderful chapter. We couldn't decide.
This is an actual chapter from this really, really weird book. It's a mystery told to the boys.... about pilgrims.
The police receive a tip-off.
The boys discover more than ten mysteries in a chapter drowning in foreshadowing and unnecessary exclamations!
The boys murder several wolves.
The boys wear glasses and virtually disappear.
We compare our classic blue bound 1956 rewrite to the 1928 original version of this book. There are problems.
The thrilling conclusion to the fifth book from the classic series. The boys basically kill someone.
In this penultimate chapter of book 5, the boys kill a wolf.
The boys head North from Lone Pine.
In the worst plot twist yet, the boys discover someone with split personality via amnesia, and someone hears the whole thing.
The missing guy was hiding in a cliff. We know this the entire time because of the title of the chapter.
Unarmed, the boys pursue an armed criminal into a tunnel. With horses.
The Boys improvise a sting operation and pursue armed criminals unarmed.
The boys watch two people fight and arbitrarily choose one of them to be "the good guy."
The boys focus on the wrong thing.
The author misses several opportunities for authentic tension and instead becomes obsessed with a compass.
At the very end of the chapter, the boys hike Ambush Trail. They are not ambushed.
The boys make bad decisions underground. They are not stealthy.
The boys learn about guns while the narrator teaches the children readers about guns as well!
The boys struggle on a roof and trust strangers.
The boys don't really understand what "music" is.
The boys call BS on a ghost story and then rent horses.
The boys continue to downplay threats and suspicion. Then their dad tells them to hunt an attempted murderer.
While this chapter title could describe any Hardy Boys book or chapter, this one is actually more of a boomerang to peril.