The Mystery of the Silver Spider

Author: Robert Arthur
Cover Illustration: Harry Kane
Internal Illustrations: Harry Kane

Synopsis:
The boys chance to meet a prince from the small country of Varania by the name of Prince Djaro. Political enemies of the prince have stolen the Silver Spider, a piece of jewelry which is required for anyone to be crowned the ruler of Varania. Prince Djaro summons the boys to Varania to help him defeat his enemies by finding the spider.

Tidbit: Jupiter refers to a story in a book from which he gets the idea of capturing the guards with a web of blanket ropes. The story was written by Robert Arthur and is called "The Mystery of the Four Quarters" and appears in "Alfred Hitchcock's Solve Them Yourself Myseries."

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Internal Illustrations from "The Mystery of the Silver Spider" as drawn by Harry Kane in the U.S. version of the story
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Internal Illustrations from "The Mystery of the Silver Spider" as drawn by Roger Hall* in the U.K. version of the story
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*Thanks to Ian Regan for supplying the Roger Hall images