Hardy And Sons

This is the moment for which we've been waiting. This is the rumors all coming true. This is the reason the books were rewritten. This is our history, recorded in a children's book.

We get to know the younger, more selfish version of the boys a bit more. As well as their flawed, authentic father.

David and Shaun discuss the difference between the original 1929 version and the 1959 rewrite of The Tower Treasure. We speculate about what it was like in 1929.

The books were rewritten in 1959 for a handful of reasons. Too violent, racist, and degenerate. So we got our hands on an original and we're comparing the two!

The Boys escape. We examine their journey with the crowd.

In a rare, well-written chapter, the boys celebrate for a full minute inside a water tower.

The boys meet a dog and have another picnic.

The boys almost build tension, but the author releases it before they do.

The Hardy's struggle with details as the author struggles with consistency of detail and exposition.

The boys search a tower. Again, their investigation proved fruitless.

The Boys' father verbally assaults a confession out of someone that's about to die.

The boys vandalize a local grocer and terrorize a rival detective instead of solving a case.

The Hardy's celebrate a man's impending death and pin their hopes on a hunch.

The Sleuthing trip gets cut short when something actually happens. Frank goes slumming with Callie.

If you haven't listened to our episodes on the first 10 of 20 chapters, this episode should catch you up to speed! We go over names, plot points, evidence, and motifs so you can join us in chapter 11 without missing a beat!

The boys fly to New York on their client's dollar to see a play.

The boys cooperate with their father and aren't at all rivals. Fenton tends to his second family after the boys find a hat and jacket that a startled person must have dropped in the woods while walking on lids to hide their bootprints. Very normal things.

The brothers lose sight of the true stakes of the investigation, and focus instead on their own reputations.

The boys learn more about the actual mystery and struggle with the fact that they've been ignored by their town for finding a car in the woods.