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The Three Investigators - The Secret of Terror Castle
The Three Investigators
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TERROR CASTLE
by Robert Arthur
Terror Castle, was first published
in the UK in a single volume in 1967 by
William Collins Sons Co. Ltd. under the title
The Secret of Terror Castle.
Copyright й 1964 by Random House Inc.
NOTICE TO THE READER
You are under no obligation whatever to
read a single word of this introduction.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Introduction
I SEEM TO BE constantly introducing something. For
years I've been introducing my television programmes.
I've introduced motion pictures. And I've introduced
books of mystery, ghost and suspense stories for my
fans to shiver with.
Now I find myself introducing a trio of lads who
call themselves The Three Investigators, and ride
round in a gold-plated Rolls-Royce, solving mysteries,
riddles, enigmas and conundrums of all kinds.
Preposterous, isn't it?
Frankly I would prefer to have nothing to do with
these three youths, but I rashly promised to introduce
them. And I am a man of my wordЧeven though the
promise was extorted from me by nothing less than
sheer skulduggery, as you will see.
To the business at hand, then. The three boys who
call themselves The Three Investigators are Bob
Andrews, Pete Crenshaw, and Jupiter Jones, all of
whom live in Rocky Beach, a small city on be shore
of the Pacific Ocean some miles from Hollywood.
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Bob Andrews, who is small but wiry, is something
of a scholarly type, although with an adventurous
spirit. Pete Crenshaw is quite tall and muscular.
Jupiter Jones isЧЧwell, I shall refrain from giving
You my own personal opinion of Jupiter Jones. You
will have to decide about him for yourself after
reading the pages that follow. I shall simply stick to
the facts.
Therefore, though I would be surely tempted to call
Jupiter Jones fat, I will simply say, as his friends do,
that he is stocky. As a very small child, Jupiter Jones
appeared in a television series about a group of
comical childrenЧa series I am happy to say I never
encountered. However, it appears that as an infant he