The next Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers trilogy will be a Killer Mystery. Book one in the Killer Mystery mini series, ''Killer Mission'' has been revealed on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416986952?ie=UTF8&tag=hardboyscasee-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416986952). It is planned for a November 10, 2009 release, after the conclusion of the forthcoming Galaxy X trilogy.
According to Wikipedia, books one and two, will be entitled Private Killer and Killer Connections, respectfuly.
More murder/killing stories? Sounds like S&S is running on nothing for the series.
Hopefully this "trilogy" will have a better story continuity or some sort of big gang, rather than just 1 bad guy per story with the three stories linked by just occurring at 1 location.
Also, I just checked Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster Canada. The Canadian arm of S&S has Killer Mystery #1 listed as Killer Mission, while the American arm doesn't list anything.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on February 21, 2009, 10:08:22 AM
More murder/killing stories? Sounds like S&S is running on nothing for the series.
I know that's what I was thinking.
Murder House and now
Killer Mystery.
I'm hoping, for either this "Killer Mission" to kill the series, or that the book will be killer good. The name does sound promising, but I'm not getting my hope up - this is the UB after all.
Quote from: SDLagent on February 21, 2009, 12:30:04 PM
The name does sound promising, but I'm not getting my hope up - this is the UB after all.
Yeah, somehow I doubt that we are going to get a story that is in the
Casefiles vein and deals with political assassins or some other type of "adult" murder and killing.
Oh my gosh, puh-lease.
I agree that the titles sound good (SDLagent) but I immediately thought of the overdone ?murder? aspect too (tomswift2002).
JHR, what are you saying ?puh-lease? to?
Quote from: SDLagent on February 20, 2009, 09:06:21 PM
According to Wikipedia, books one and two, will be entitled Private Killer and Killer Connections, respectfuly.
Private Killer? Sounds like an assassin.
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on February 21, 2009, 07:07:05 PM
Oh my gosh, puh-lease.
What do you not like the title?
Quote from: 003Robin457 on February 23, 2009, 12:05:22 PM
Private Killer? Sounds like an assassin.
I just checked wikipedia to see if I could find a link to where the authors of the article found the title, and I see that it lists
Private Killer as #32 in the UB's, and #33 is listed as
Killer Connections.
But, considering that I found those two titles on the Wikipedia page for the Hardy Boys in general, and not on the page for the Undercover Brothers series, plus since there is no reference for those two titles, I would take those titles with a "grain of salt".
Maybe a terrorist will blow up ATAC HQ, ending the UBs! ;D Hey, I can dream! 8)
Remember this is the UBs we?re talking about.
If something like that were to happen it would be killing after killing starting with lower-level agents, eventually reaching Fenton Hardy.
Not that I?m condoning it.
Fenton Hardy would never be killed in the UB! Only total jerks no one cares about get killed in UB.
True.
You know, catching these random 1-dimensional individuals is not so compelling. They should add some substance by having a conflicted bad guy for once so the situation is not so black-and-white. Or even having the Hardys cross paths with someone more than once.
The ?conflicted? bad guy part might be a little too complex for the UBs, though. They?d have to go deeper.
I only remember some girl (or whoever one of the bad guys was) in #16 Bayport Buccaneers got away so that sort of went against the norm. And I guess there?s that case in the Murder House trilogy with that girl who had issues.
P.S. Oh yeah, and if the HQ were to blow up ? who says they wouldn?t rebuild and/or come up with a new agency?
Quote from: Blondie on March 23, 2009, 02:49:36 PM
P.S. Oh yeah, and if the HQ were to blow up ? who says they wouldn?t rebuild and/or come up with a new agency?
A new agency called... the Network. Now woulden't that be Ironic?
Haha, yeah.
Quote from: Blondie on February 22, 2009, 08:38:58 PM
I agree that the titles sound good (SDLagent) but I immediately thought of the overdone ?murder? aspect too (tomswift2002).
JHR, what are you saying ?puh-lease? to?
Quote from: 003Robin457 on February 23, 2009, 12:05:22 PM
Private Killer? Sounds like an assassin.What do you not like the title?
Sorry, the title just sounds like it's going to be like all the other ones.... I'm still an ATAC fan, but......
Quote from: SDLagent on February 20, 2009, 09:06:21 PM
According to Wikipedia, books one and two, will be entitled Private Killer and Killer Connections, respectfuly.
dont you mean books 2 and 3???
Yes, that's what I meant.
Quote from: SDLagent on April 08, 2009, 07:10:45 PM
Yes, that's what I meant.
ok as long as everyones on the same page
Or in this case same book. :D
If the writers are not carefull, they might kill the series! ::)
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on April 09, 2009, 12:27:08 PM
If the writers are not carefull, they might kill the series! ::)
They already have.
no they havent but they might
Quote from: 003Robin457 on April 10, 2009, 07:08:54 PM
Its not dead, not yet.
But it's almost. Otherwise, why would they keep on making trilogies (sp)? The reason would be to increase slaes because the series is dieing.
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on April 11, 2009, 03:40:10 PM
But it's almost. Otherwise, why would they keep on making trilogies (sp)? The reason would be to increase sales because the series is dieing.
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on April 11, 2009, 03:40:32 PM
But it's almost. Otherwise, why would they keep on making trilogies (sp)? The only reason would be to increase sales because the series is dieing.
Why can't I edit my posts?
I think I explained it once before. You can't edit posts in Network briefings, unless your a MOD.
Quote from: SDLagent on April 11, 2009, 05:23:09 PM
I think I explained it once before. You can't edit posts in Network briefings, unless your a MOD or Chuck Norris.
LOL. Good one, Robin.
dont start with the Chuck Norris stuff again Robin please
I'm getting some rumours from other guys that I know that are fans of the Hardy Boys that Private Killer may be the last Undercover Brothers title in the series. So far it is unconfirmed, but the sources that I've heard this from I consider to be very reliable. But as I said this is an unconfirmed rumour.
Oh. I don't know how I feel about that.
If it happens, I hope it's not the death of "The Hardy Boys". But what are the chances they would start up another series?
one in a million?
Quote from: tomswift2002 on May 15, 2009, 05:29:36 PM
I'm getting some rumours from other guys that I know that are fans of the Hardy Boys that Private Killer may be the last Undercover Brothers title in the series. So far it is unconfirmed, but the sources that I've heard this from I consider to be very reliable. But as I said this is an unconfirmed rumour.
Hardy Boys news group?
Now there may another series coming. The Secret Files. Not another little kids series!
You never know......
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