The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure

by Robert Arthur, Elizabeth Arthur (Editor), Steven Bauer (Editor)

Overview

In the fifth adventure of Robert Arthur's classic mystery series, Jupiter, Pete, and Bob are in hot pursuit of a magnificent gold belt, studded with jewels, which once belonged to an ancient line of Japanese emperors.

When it is stolen from under their noses at the Peterson Museum, the Three Investigators are determined to find it - partly to help Taro Togati, a Japanese boy whose father will be disgraced if they don't. Soon they're tangling with garden gnomes, gymnasts, and a gang of ruthless criminals!

By turns intriguing, funny, and perplexing, The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure promises to please not only the existing fan base of The Three Investigators series but a whole new generation of readers who will find in its pages three very different boys whose imagination, courage, and intelligence can remind us that curiosity, perseverance, and rational inquiry are just as vital as friendship and cooperation.

At the end of each Three Investigators book published by Hollow Tree Press are notes written by Robert Arthur's daughter and son-in-law, exploring three subjects connected to the story - in this case, Little People, Bank Robbers, and Honor - and young readers may want to use these notes as guidelines for further investigation. After all, the motto of The Three Investigators is "We Investigate Anything," and their trademark is "???" - three question marks, taken together.

On the 60th anniversary of the creation of The Three Investigators series, the first-ever English-language e-book editions of Robert Arthur's novels, as well as the first new English-language print editions in over twenty-five years, stand ready to delight a whole new audience. Be sure to seek out all ten titles!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185794548
Publisher:	Hollow Tree Press
Publication date:	07/20/2024
Series:	Classic Series , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Robert Arthur is best known today as the creator of The Three Investigators mystery book series for young people, but by the time he dreamed up Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews, he had been a professional writer of mysteries, fantasies, and horror stories for adults for over forty years.
  
At the time he was conjuring The Three Investigators, he also served as the ghost-editor of a number of anthologies purportedly edited by Alfred Hitchcock - iconic anthologies like Stories Not For The Nervous, Stories For Late At Night, and Stories My Mother Never Told Me.

Previous to that, he had written mysteries, fantasies, and horror stories for pulp magazines throughout the 1930s. His work from those years appeared in Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Argosy Weekly, Detective Story Magazine, Collier's, Bluebook, and Black Mask, among many other magazines.

Later he co-wrote and produced a radio show called The Mysterious Traveler that won an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama from The Mystery Writers of America in 1953.

In 1959, he moved to Hollywood where he worked in television, writing scripts for The Twilight Zone and working as a story editor, showrunner, and scriptwriter for Alfred Hitchcock's TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

In 1963, he moved to Cape May, New Jersey, where he created The Three Investigators. The Secret of Terror Castle and The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot were published in 1964 by Random House, and Robert Arthur wrote eight more Three Investigators novels before his early death in 1969.

Elizabeth Arthur is Robert Arthur's daughter and the author of five novels (Beyond the Mountain, Bad Guys, Binding Spell, Antarctic Navigation, and Bring Deeps) and two memoirs (Island Sojourn and Looking for the Klondike Stone). She and her husband Steven Bauer have edited and written end notes for all ten of Robert Arthur's classic novels. They have also co-written twenty-six new Three Investigators novels, forthcoming from Hollow Tree Press.
 
Steven Bauer is Robert Arthur's son-in-law and the author of  books for young people entitled Satyrday, A Cat of a Different Color, and The Strange and Wonderful Tale of Robert McDoodle. He also runs his own editing business. He and his wife Elizabeth Arthur have edited and written end notes for all ten of Robert Arthur's classic novels. They have also co-written twenty-six new Three Investigators novels, forthcoming from Hollow Tree Press.