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Alfred Hitchcock and

The Three Investigators

in

The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot

Robert Arthur

Illustrated by Roger Hall

Contents

Introduction

5

A Cry for Help

7

The Stuttering Parrot

13

Little Bo-Peep is Lost

19

Red Gate Rover

25

A Ghost-to-Ghost Hookup

29

An Unexpected Visitor

33

Mysterious Treasure

41

Blackbeard the Pirate

45

Calling all Ghosts

49

Into a Trap

53

Seven Flying Clues

57

A Plan of Action

63

A Wild Flight

67

The Mysterious Message

71

Ramble and Scramble

75

Bob becomes a Decoy

79

The Stones beyond the Bones

83

Hide and Seek in the Fog

87

Blackbeard has the Last Word

91

In Which Loose Ends are Tied

95

3

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. However —

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 nervousness

before anything happens but a tower of strength in any kind of trouble. Jupiter

Jones is —

Well, I could write quite a lot about what Jupiter Jones is and my opinions

might not agree with those...