Great read! | The Secret of Terror Castle (The Three Investigators #1)

A great start for a great series | The Secret of Terror Castle (The Three Investigators #1) | Robert Arthur

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	• The Secret of Terror Castle (The Three Investigators #1) Robert Arthur Random House Books for Young Readers, 1991 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 62 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My son loved this as much as I did at age 10

I first read this book as a boy and I loved it. My 10 year old just finished it and says it is the best book that he has ever read. We read this together and I noticed some details date the story. For example, the Investigators use film cameras and do their research at the library, not on the Internet. Times have changed!! Still, this is a great detective story for boys, may not appeal as much to girls.

Great read!

I read this book to my 10 year old son and we both loved it. It was suspenseful, exciting, and even had a couple of really funny bits.

A great start for a great series

This is the first book in the Three Investigators juvenile series. This book, being the first of the series, has more setup than most of the books. It is here that the boys relationship with Alfred Hitchcock is explained. It should be pointed out that the Hitchcock connection is largely a marketing ploy and Hitchcock plays almost no role in the stories themselves. Indeed, it was easy to replace Hitchcock with an entirely fictional character in later editions after his death.

The main protagonists are introduced in this book. Jupiter Jones, the "stocky" and intelligent one, is the natural leader of the group. Pete Crenshaw is the athletic one of the group. Bob Andrews is the studious one with the leg brace. Although, stereotypical in the beginning as the series progresses the boys are progressively more realistically portrayed. We are also introduced to Worthington, the likable chauffeur.

The plot is the classic haunted house story. There are mysterious goings on at Terror Castle and the boys have to get to the bottom of it. There are enough twists and turns to keep even an adult interested.

If you have a 10-15 year old reader you could do a lot worse than this series. The only possible drawback is that most of the stories are dated; they are set firmly in the 1960s. But the charm of the books are timeless. The illustrations by Harry Kane are worth the additional effort of tracking down earlier printings.

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Alfred Hitchcock and the 3 Investigators - Terror Castle

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Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators' new detective agency. But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the place got its name!