

("Bill") Dodge.įor the original series, the specific ages of the investigators were never revealed, but contextual information indicates that they were likely 13 or 14 years old. The illustrators in the series began with Harry Kane and Ed Vebell and include Jack Hearne, Herb Mott, Stephen Marchesi, Robert Adragna and William A. All of the authors wrote their own introductions and epilogues, which were dictated purportedly by Hitchcock and later in the series a fictional writer, Hector Sebastian, who supposedly recorded the adventures of the Three Investigators from their words. The other authors were William Arden ( Dennis Lynds), Nick West (Kin Platt), Mary Virginia Carey and Marc Brandel (born Marcus Beresford). Arthur had been an editor for several book collections attributed to Alfred Hitchcock.

Between 19 Random House published the Three Investigators Crimebusters series.īooks number 1 to 9 and 11 were written by the creator, Robert Arthur, who also specified ideas for a few of the other stories. The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, one unfinished story ( The Mystery of the Ghost Train) and four Find Your Fate books.

Main article: The American series of The Three Investigators
