The Three Investigators and The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy E-Book

Robert Arthur

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

Seitenzahl: 208

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 Whispering Mummy", finally available for your reading device! Is it possible, that a 3,000-year-old mummy begins to whisper? Even strange words in an ancient Egyptian tongue? The Three Investigators are determined to find out the facts, even if the horrible curse of the mummy will come upon them.

Leseprobe

Albert Hitfield and The Three Investigators in

The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy

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 Whispering Mummy”

© 1965, by Random House, Inc., New York

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For Latecomers Only:Introduction by Albert Hitfield

The following words are solely for the benefit of those of you who have come in late. If you are already familiar with The Three Investigators, you may skip this brief commercial and proceed directly to the entertainment portion of the program. Fortunately, this is a book so you can accomplish this matter merely by turning a page or two. If this were television, you would have to sit through the whole thing.

To fill you in on what has happened in the past, The Three Investigators is a firm of youthful detectives formed by three enterprising lads: Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews.

Jupiter, by his own admission, is the brains of the outfit. Bob takes notes on all cases and does research. Pete, strong and agile, is invaluable as Jupiter’s assistant on active missions.

The boys live in Rocky Beach, a small city on the shore of the Pacific Ocean some miles from Hollywood. Here in Southern California, distances are so great that an automobile is a vital necessity. None of the boys is quite old enough to drive, but their car problem was solved when Jupiter won the use of an automobile, complete with chauffeur, in a contest. The car, a gold-plated Rolls Royce, is theirs for thirty days only, and they are putting it to good use.

Headquarters for The Three Investigators is a converted mobile home trailer situated in The Jones Salvage Yard, which is run by Jupiter’s uncle and aunt, Titus and Mathilda Jones. The trailer has a small office in it, a lab, a dark room, and equipment which the boys rebuilt from junk that came into the salvage yard. It can be entered by certain secret passages that only youthful individuals can negotiate.

You now know all you need to be on your own. I deplore the modern trend toward coddling youth. Therefore you are now urged to read the book for yourself to learn the remainder.

Albert Hitfield

An Exciting Letter

“Save me! Save me!” cried a strange, high-pitched voice in great terror. “Please save me!”

The Three Investigators – Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews – heard the cry but ignored it and continued working. The speaker was their mascot, the trained mynah bird, Blackbeard, whom they had acquired in a previous case. It picked up words and phrases with astounding ease and delighted in trying them out.

“Jupiter!” Mrs. Mathilda Jones, Jupiter’s aunt, glanced at Blackbeard’s cage which was hung from a length of board inside The Jones Salvage Yard. “You’ve been letting that bird watch too much television. It’s talking like somebody in one of those mystery programs.”

“Yes, Aunt Mathilda,” Jupiter said. He puffed as he picked up an old front door. “Where shall I put this?”

“With the other doors,” his aunt told him. “You boys! Stop lounging around! We have a lot of work to do and time is going fast.”

Time wasn’t going fast enough to suit The Three Investigators. Under Mrs. Mathilda Jones’ direction, they were engaged in an investigation they would have preferred to skip – they were investigating how much work three boys could do on a hot day. Mrs. Jones, a large woman, really ran The Jones Salvage Yard. Jupiter’s Uncle Titus merely did the buying for it and was away on buying trips most of the time. This was a day when Aunt Mathilda was having one of her frequent clean-up impulses. When that happened, Jupiter and any of his friends who might be handy were pressed into service.