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The Secret of Terror Castle by Robert Arthur

Hi! I thought it would be kind of fun to recap the first book of The Three Investigators series right in time for Spoopoween! So, we start off our adventure with a foreword from (not really) Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock is upset because he was basically tricked into introducing T3I. So, he introduces Bob as scholarly, and Jupe as um, well I'm just gonna quote because it's A Lot ™ Jupiter Jones is ——well, I shall refrain from giving You my own personal opinion of Jupiter Jones. You will have to decide about him for yourself after reading the pages that follow. I shall simply stick to the facts. Therefore, though I would be surely tempted to call Jupiter Jones fat, I will simply say, as his friends do, that he is stocky. As a very small child, Jupiter Jones appeared in a television series about a group of comical children—a series I am happy to say I never encountered. However, it appears that as an infant he was so fat and comical in appearance, he was known as Baby Fatso
This is from one of my all time favorite kids series. I just loved that fact that Jupe made Alfred Hitchcock so mad. I'm thinking of covering The Three Investigators for the blog. The series just doesn't get enough live for my liking!