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The Three Investigators is an American juvenile detective book series first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators". It was created by Robert Arthur Jr., who believed involving a famous person such as movie director Alfred Hitchcock would attract attention.
Between 1964 and his death in 1969, Robert Arthur wrote the following ten titles in The Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Mystery Series: #1 The Secret of Terror Castle, 1964 #2 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot, 1964
- The Secret of Terror Castle.
- The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot.
- The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy.
- The Mystery of the Green Ghost.
- Copyright Dispute
- International and Foreign-Language editions
- Adaptations
- Trivia
Initial position
The series was invented by the American writer Robert Arthur in the US in 1964. Arthur sold the international exploitation rights to the publishing house Random House. However, the copyright remained with him. The contract included the rights to publish books, films, comics and mechanical sound reproduction. Since there was no significant audio book market at that time, it is legally not clearly determinable and therefore doubtful whether this "mechanical sound reproduction" describes the med...
Lawsuit
Due to the unclear legal situation, EUROPA decided at the beginning of 2005 not to publish any further episodes based on the book templates of Kosmos Verlag and discontinued the license payments to Kosmos. At that time the books "Spur ins Nichts" and "...und der Geisterzug" (both German only) had already been recorded as an radio play. In 2006, the parent company of the European label Sony Music Entertainment(formerly Sony BMG) finally gained all the German rights on Arthur's creations and th...
Outcome
On February 13, 2008, Sony BMG announced that they had come to an agreement with Kosmos, predating a joint press release on the following day. The rights to the books as well as the brand name, which were the foundation for the audio dramas remained with Kosmos as well as all other publishing products, including calendars, non-fiction literature, mobile and computer games, science kits and board games. The rights to use audio material with the inclusion of the entire catalog as well as stage...
Bangladesh
1. Main article: Tin Goyenda The Three Investigators have also been published in Bangladesh by Sheba Prokashoni as Tin Goyenda(translated by Rakib Hasan) since the 1980s and appealed to many young Bangladeshi readers till this day. The stories are generally still set in Rocky Beach, California, although the investigators travel to exotic places like Africa and Bangladesh on occasions. In the Bengali editions, Jupiter Jones is known as Kishor Pasha (a Bangladeshi American). Peter Crenshaw is n...
Denmark
In Denmark, 13 books were published from 1966–1970 by Hasselbalch under the title Alfred Hitchcock og De tre Detektiver (lit. Alfred Hitchcok and the Three Detectives).
France
In France, the original nine books were published during the 1970s by Bibliothèque Verte as part of their collection of books for young readers under the title Les Trois Jeunes Détectives (lit. The Three Young Detectives). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the series continued. A total of 37 volumes, including four installments of the Crimebustersseries, have been published.
In 2007, a Three Investigators movie, The Secret of Skeleton Island, was released in Germany, starring Chancellor Miller as Jupiter, Nick Price as Pete, and Cameron Monaghanas Bob. It was followed in 2009 by The Secret of Terror Castle. Although adopting the same titles as two of the novels, and some of the characters, the stories in the films are ...
In the French, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Italian version of the series, the books were once published with Alfred Hitchcock listed as their author. The same error was made in some German pa...
The Three Investigators Mystery Series is a juvenile book series that was created by Robert Arthur, Jr. in the early 1960's. The series consists of 59 individual titles in the U.S.
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The Three Investigators series, a 43-volume set of mysteries for juvenile readers published by Random House between 1964 and 1987, featured three 13-year-old male amateur sleuths, Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews.
