Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Secret of the Phantom Lake (book)
The Secret of the Phantom Lake
- First published in 1973 in the USA by Random House (hardback)
- written by Dennis Lynds (as William Arden)
- 148 pages
Introduction
An ancient shipwreck! A pirate hoard! A ghost town! An island of phantoms! Confound that rascally juvenile confidence man, Jupiter Jones! How can I resist announcing this tale with such tantalizing elements in it?
So once more I take up my pen to invite all adventurous readers to join me. But step carefully and look behind you, mystery and danger await all who follow The Three Investigators to Phantom Lake!
For the deprived few who live in regions so remote that they are still ignorant of our trio, be informed that their annoyingly brainy leader is the overweight Jupiter Jones. Peter Crenshaw is the tall, muscular Second Investigator, and Bob Andrews is the small, but dogged, Research man.
Residents of Rocky Beach, California, a town a few Miles north of Hollywood, they made their headquarters in a hidden mobile home trailer in The Jones Salvage Yard, owned by Jupiter’s aunt and uncle. From this hideaway they sally forth to foil the most clever villains and unravel the darkest of riddles.
But now comes a riddle more than a hundred years old! Can even our formidable trio solve it? What is the secret locked in a yellowing letter and a long-lost sailor’s journal? Was a hoard of pirate treasure spirited from a sinking ship one stormy night long ago, and who are the shadowy men lurking in the path of the boys?
Can the stubborn trio solve a message from the dead, and find the secret of Phantom Lake? And if they do, can they find it in time? We shall see!
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
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