The Three Investigators and the Mystery of the Talking Skull E-Book

Robert Arthur

• Herausgeber: Kosmos
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Serie: Die drei ???
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 171

Beschreibung

Every true "The Three Investigators"-Fan dreams about following the adventures of Jupiter, Pete and Bob in the original American edition. "The Three Investigators and the Mystery of the Talking Skull", finally available for your reading device! This adventure starts when Jupiter, Pete and Bob buy an old trunk for a dollar at an auction. Before they have even collected the trunk, a white-haired lady offers them a lot of money for it - and that's only the beginning! Why are so many people after the trunk? And what's in it?

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Albert Hitfield and The Three Investigators in

The Mystery of the Talking Skull

Text by Robert Arthur

Kosmos

Umschlagillustration von Aiga Rasch

Umschlaggestaltung von eStudio Calamar, Girona, auf der Grundlage

der Gestaltung von Aiga Rasch (9. Juli 1941 – 24. Dezember 2009)

Titel der Originalausgabe:

“Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Talking Skull”

© 1969, by Random House, Inc., New York

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A Short Preview by Albert Hitfield

Welcome, mystery lovers! We are gathered together again for another stimulating case of The Three Investigators whose official motto is “We Investigate Anything.” If they had known what they were getting into when they tackled the curious case of the talking skull they might have changed their motto.

Be that as it may, they find themselves this time in a mix-up of mystery and danger which leads them from one perplexing enigma to another until – but I am not a blabbermouth. I promised faithfully not to tell too much, and I shall keep my promise.

Indeed, I shall only say that The Three Investigators are Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews, who all make their home in Rocky Beach, a small municipality in California a few miles from Hollywood. Their Headquarters is a mobile home trailer in The Jones Salvage Yard, a super-junkyard owned by Jupiter’s aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Titus Jones.

The boys make an excellent team. Jupiter has a quick mind and is adept at deductions. Pete is less intellectual but sturdy and courageous. Bob is somewhat studious and an excellent researcher. Together they have solved some very intriguing mysteries indeed.

Which is all I shall say at this time, for I know you are eager to dispense with this preview and get to the main feature.

Albert Hitfield

Jupiter Buys a Trunk

It all started because Jupiter Jones read the newspaper.

The Three Investigators – Jupiter, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews – were taking it easy back in Jupe’s workshop section of The Jones Salvage Yard. Bob was writing up some notes on their last case. Pete was just enjoying the California morning sunshine. And Jupiter was reading the paper.

Presently he looked up from its pages.

“Has either of you ever been to an auction?” he asked.

Bob said no. Pete shook his head.

“Neither have I,” Jupiter said. “The paper says there’s an auction this morning at the Davis Auction Company in Hollywood. They’ll be auctioning off to the highest bidder unclaimed luggage from a number of hotels. The paper says there are trunks and suitcases with unknown contents left behind by people who moved, or couldn’t pay their bill, or who just forgot to call for them. I think it might be interesting to visit an auction.”

“Why?” Pete asked. “I don’t need a suitcase full of somebody’s old clothes.”

“Neither do I,” Bob said. “Let’s go swimming.”