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The Three Investigators travel cross-country from sunny Southern California to an island off the coast of South Carolina, where Investigator Pete Crenshaw's father is working on a movie set. The set has been plagued with thefts and mysterious happenings involving an old ghost legend and pirate
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treasure, and the boys are recruited by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to see if they can uncover the truth. This they do, eventually, after putting themselves into various forms of physical jeopardy and then more or less promptly rescuing themselves. For the second book in a row, Jupiter (a former child film star known as Baby Fatso) is sidelined while Pete and Bob have all the physical adventures. I didn't like that part at all but the series is determined to establish Jupiter as the brains and Bob and Pete as the brawn and that's just the way it goes, I reckon. As in The Mystery of the Green Ghost, the boys are aided in their adventures by a cheerful immigrant teen, this time from Greece. I appreciate that these books in the 1960s show the Three Investigators as welcoming and unbigoted, even as it paints the adults in a less flattering light. I'd like to think young readers took our young heroes as role models in this, at least, if not in the "constantly disobeying parents and getting into trouble" bits. Show Less
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The Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates.
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1966