The Three Investigators series was first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators”. It was created by Robert Arthur, Jr.,
who believed using a famous figure such as movie director Hitchcock would
attract attention. The "three investigators" are: Jupiter Jones, Pete
Crenshaw and Bob Andrews.
The investigators were typically introduced to a mystery
through a client or by accidentally stumbling upon
something unusual in their scrap yard
of Uncle Titus Jones and Aunt Mathilda, who run a salvage business. The boys
encountered baffling, sometimes misleading clues and danger before finally
solving the mystery. The series was organized around one major theme: however
strange, mystical, or even supernatural
a particular phenomenon may appear at first, it is capable of being traced to
human agency with the determined application of reason
and logic.
Most mysteries were invariably solved by Jupiter Jones, a supreme logician who
implicitly deployed the Occam's Razor
principle: that the simplest and most rational explanation should be preferred
to an explanation which requires additional assumptions. The boys were able to
solve their mysteries with relatively few resources: they generally could get
by with little more than a telephone, bicycles, access to a library and - in a
nod to the peripheral Hollywood setting of the series - a chauffer-driven
vehicle. The last chapter of each book was an epilogue in which the
investigators sat with Alfred Hitchcock
reviewing the mystery and revealing the deductions
through the clues shown earlier in the book.
The List of these books are
4.
The
Mystery of the Green Ghost
6.
The
Secret of Skeleton Island
7.
The
Mystery of the Fiery Eye
9.
The
Mystery of the Screaming Clock
10.
The
Mystery of the Moaning Cave
11.
The
Mystery of the Talking Skull
12.
The
Mystery of the Laughing Shadow
13.
The
Secret of the Crooked Cat
14.
The
Mystery of the Coughing Dragon
15.
The
Mystery of the Flaming Footprints
16.
The
Mystery of the Nervous Lion
17.
The
Mystery of the Singing Serpent
18.
The
Mystery of the Shrinking House
19.
The
Secret of Phantom Lake
20.
The
Mystery of Monster Mountain
21.
The
Secret of the Haunted Mirror
22.
The
Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle
23.
The
Mystery of the Invisible Dog
24.
The
Mystery of Death Trap Mine
25.
The
Mystery of the Dancing Devil
26.
The
Mystery of the Headless Horse
27.
The
Mystery of the Magic Circle
28.
The
Mystery of the Deadly Double
29.
The
Mystery of the Sinister Scarecrow
30.
The
Secret of Shark Reef
31.
The
Mystery of the Scar-Faced Beggar
32.
The
Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs
33.
The
Mystery of the Purple Pirate
34.
The
Mystery of the Wandering Cave Man
35.
The
Mystery of the Kidnapped Whale
36.
The
Mystery of the Missing Mermaid
37.
The
Mystery of the Two-Toed Pigeon
38.
The
Mystery of the Smashing Glass
39.
The
Mystery of the Trail of Terror
40.
The
Mystery of the Rogues' Reunion
41.
The
Mystery of the Creep-Show Crooks
42.
The
Mystery of Wrecker's Rock
43.
The
Mystery of the Cranky Collector
My
favorite ones are the Moaning Cave and The Crooked Cat.
Ladies
and Gentlemen, in this article I have covered books which I read in my school
days. They have made our childhood extremely excited and happy. That is all for
now. Keep waiting for my next Article.
