Jughead and his upstart classmates Bret (Sean Depner) and Donna (Sarah Desjardin) were being mentored by children’s author and fraud Francis DuPont (Malcolm Stewart).  Theories ranged from

Bret and Riverdale High student Kevin (Casey Cott) teaming up to spotting clues from this season’s major reference point, Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History.  Unfortunately, following

the broadcast of the latest episode, several fans of the series took to social media to express their disappointment with the new reveal.  One diligent fan live tweeted the episode and

spotted the not-so subtle connection between DuPont’s series The Baxter Brothers and real life children’s series The Hardy Boys.