Who read the "Three Investigators" books as a youngin'? (pics)

[henslee]

[nickinSTL]

1. I read several

I was big on mystery stories, and this was one of the series I read.

[henslee]

4. I was pretty much addicted to it. Just wondering who else was into it.

I guess it was Hardy-boys derived. I was suprised to find an international following for the books today with hardcovers sometimes going for fifty bucks a pop.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

2. I did

I was a pretty voracious reader as kid. That was one of my favorite series.

[Lavender Brown]

3. Yes

I also liked the Meg Mysteries. Those were for younger kids.

[Strong Atheist]

5. I read them all, and all of the other

mysteries in the childrens section of the local library. When there were no more mysteries to read, I moved to the next section, the science fiction section. Soon I was reading from the adult science fiction racks, and I have never looked back.

[swimboy]

6. I sure did.

And I have all of them in hard back until they started coming out with a cheaper binding. I was most like Bob. How about you?

[henslee]

7. I don't know. Jupiter I guess. That collection of yours is worth a few

bucks now. I have a few lying around. And yeah after about book fifteen or so they started changing authors and I sort of outgrew them or lost interest.

[swimboy]

8. The earliest by Robert Arthur are the best.

He wrote some great short stories too in some of the Alfred Hitchcock story compilations. Some of the stories are online, I found, if you are interested in reading them.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I did.

I don't remember much about them other than it was the first book series where I set a goal to read everyone of them. I owned only one, "The Mystery of the Green Ghost." The rest I borrowed from the library.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. They were fantastic - I'd love to read some again one day

They were reprinted when I was young and I was able to pick up them 2nd hand pretty easily. My favorite was probably the "Dancing Devil" - great little mystery infused with horror. I also had the audio tape of "The Secret of Terror Castle" which got multiple plays. A really good little fan site has it available for download:

http://www.tunneltwo.com/workshop/audio.html

For a while I wanted to be Jupiter and I even set up my own club called the 'Fantastic Four'. We put an advert in the local newspaper and got a reply from an old woman who had discovered a map with clues to some hidden jewellery. The four of us gathered together and spent a morning driving round the countryside, following signs, until we reached a wooded area. We followed the map for ages until we reached 'X' and sure enough there was a box with a necklace inside. We returned home triumphant and - forgetting the old woman completely - split up everything. I kept the necklace, the others got the map, the box and the clues. It was a brilliant day (and also the first and last case for our club) and I never suspected anything. It was only in a casual conversation with my Mum about ten years later that I discovered she and my Dad had set up the entire thing!

Then I discovered Willard Price and my obsession turned to zoology.

[henslee]

12. Sounds like something my pop did.... stuck a hundred dollars in old

currency -- (silver certificates and oversized bills)in an old army coat in the attic. When we were all doing a clean up.. and found it...
Nothing like smart (ass) parents who stoke young imaginations. Zoology huh. Think I'll google Price.

[Zuni]

11. I read most of them

[jandrok]

13. I used to love those.

My daughter is getting into them now.