| Hi, I'm
Chandu from India. I'm 18 years old. I'm a big fan of the Three
Investigators. I first came across the Three Investigators when I
was in class 8th. That was in the year 1996. The first Three
investigators I read was The Screaming Clock. And within no
time I was a big fan of the series. I read many other titles from
the series, but usually these books were hard to find, at least in
India, but luckily our school library had a good collection.
What made these books different from
the others? Well Hardy boys and other books are more of action than
mystery and suspense. And more importantly they didn't have a
Jupiter Jones in them, to add that little bit of thrill and
excitement! And I found these book more realistic then the others.
If you read Hardy Boys you find that the teenagers travel all over
the globe and do some high flying stunts which I find very unlikely.
But Three investigators the cases are more or less confined to
a particular territory. One classic example is The Sky fire
Puzzle. The Hardy Boys to go the NASA and try to investigate a
sabotage. How much more absurd can it get? A couple of teenagers
helping the NASA to investigate acts of sabotage?!?! I'm not trying
to compare the two series but I'm just trying to point out, what
made Three investigators better books to read.
The essential element in their
stories is the headquarters. A trailer hidden by the junk and had
access though various secret entrances. Also the various inventions
by Jupiter, like walkie talkies, metal detectors etc are a great
help on their cases. And someone famous like Alfred Hitchcock to
introduce their cases is something amazing. but when Alfred
Hitchcock died the writers introduced a new fictious character
Hector Sebastian to introduce their cases. I found Alfred's cases
much more interesting but I'm not going to complain. I'm happy
reading about Three investigators, no matter who introduces the
cases. Also the way Jupiter attracts attention of his clients by
including the three question marks on his card is a very smart.
These small things make the series score over the rest.
I would like to conclude by that the Three investigators are the
best!!!!
Chandu was introduced to me by
Philip. We got along quite well and he is very nice - a neat pal. He
is always very enthusiastic and has been instrumental in the making
of this site - Basil Andre Diengdoh |
