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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...