Most mysteries were solved by Jupiter Jones, a supreme logician who implicitly used the Occam's Razor principle: that the simplest and most rational explanation should be preferred to an explanation which requires additional assumptions. This theme was compromised on several occasions by Carey: in The Invisible Dog, she canonizes astral projection in The Mystery of Monster Mountain, the boys encounter Bigfoot and in The Mystery of the Scar-Faced Beggar, a woman has genuine prophetic dreams.
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The series had one major theme: however strange, mystical, or even supernatural a particular phenomenon may seem at first, it is capable of being traced to human agency with the determined application of reason and logic. The boys encountered baffling, sometimes misleading clues and danger before finally solving the mystery.
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The investigators were typically introduced to a mystery by a client or by finding something unusual accidentally in the scrapyard of Jupiter's Uncle Titus Jones and Aunt Mathilda, who had a salvage business. In the later Crimebusters series, it was stated once that the Three Investigators team was initiated when the boys were 13. On one occasion it was mentioned that Pete was part of the high-school wrestling team.
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They were not old enough to drive a car legally, but were said to be just a few years younger than their nemesis Skinny Norris, who had a driver's license from a state where the required age for a license was younger.
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("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. Books 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 books.