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The Three Investigators - The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot
The Three Investigators
in
THE STUTTERING
PARROT
by Robert Arthur
The Stuttering Parrot was first published
in the UK in a single volume in 1967 by
William Collins Sons Co. Ltd. under the title
The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot.
Copyright й 1964 by Random House, Inc.
Introduction
FOR THE second time I find myself introducing the trio of
lads who call themselves The Three Investigators. I did
not expect to be doing this. Quite frankly, I thought I had
managed to put them out of my life for good. How-
everЧЧ
But I would rather not go into the details. Let it suffice
that I promised to introduce them, and I am doing so.
Those of you who have read the account of their first case,
The Secret of Terror Castle, know all about it. You can,
in fact, skip every word of this and proceed directly to
the main feature, a procedure I recommend heartily.
But for those of you who came in late. I will do my
duty.
The trio of youths who call themselves The Three
Investigators are Bob Andrews, Pete Crenshaw, and
Jupiter Jones, all of whom live in the town of Rocky
Beach, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean some miles from
Hollywood. Bob is rather slight, blond, of a scholarly
nature, but with a streak of adventurousness in him. Pete
is tall and well-muscled, brown-haired, inclined to nerv-
ousness before anything happens but a tower of strength
in any kind of trouble. Jupiter Jones isЧЧ
Well, I could write quite a lot about what Jupiter Jones
is. and my opinions might not agree with those of his
friends. Let me just say that he is stocky and sturdily
built, and that he has a round face which can mirror com-
plete imbecility, but which in fact has behind it a shrewd
and often penetrating mind.
Whereas Bob Andrews and Pete Crenshaw live with
their parents. Jupiter lives with his aunt and uncle, having
lost both parents when he was quite young. As it baby he
was extremely plump and appeared in a television series
about some comical children, under the name of Baby
5
Fatso. To this day he loathes the name and hates to be
laughed at.
In a contest sponsored by a local auto rental agency,
Jupiter won the use of a gold-plated vintage Rolls-Royce