Boomer DUer's...do you remember the Alfred Hitchcock 3 investigator book series

[pepperbear]

Oh wow, I don't know what reminded me of the series. I had a VIVID memory from when I was 9, staying up late one night chewing my gum to powder as I tore through "The Mystery of the Screaming Clock."



Oh and how about Encyclopedia Brown?



and for a total non sequiter, how about this family?




:hi:

[dEMOK]

1. Obviously (going by the response) ...You're the only one who remembers this...

I'm a boomer & all I recall of Hitchcock are his silhouette and dark TV episodes & movies (like "The Birds" & "Psycho").

[conscious evolution]

2. Their secret hidout was in a

junkyard.

[Starry Messenger]

3. aging gen-X-er here

I remember the first two! I believed for years that Hitchcock actually wrote the 3 investigators himself. I also loved the "Hitchcock" story collections and got into a lot of great authors that way.

MPK

[pepperbear]

7. same here. some of those stories AND the photos were pretty interesting. n/t

[Connonym]

15. LOL! I believed that too

glad I'm not the only one :)

[enigmatic]

4. I collect them

The originals, not the recent reprints, and I love them. I have a collection of Whitman books from the 50's-70's from the different TV shows of the time, and a complete set of the Brains Benton books, which are my favorite young adult mystery series from that time:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/brains_benton.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brains_Benton
http://www.townofautumn.com/brainsbenton/

I've (mostly)have a set of early prints of the Clair Bee penned "Chip Hilton" sports books from that time as well, which I'm reading again; the new reprints from Bee's granddaughter are terrible, since they are re-written to incude evangelical christian themes in the books that wern't there in the originals, which were just fine as they were orginally written:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Hilton

I missed out on all these books in my own early teen years because I was reading "heavy" (Kafka, Fromm etc)stuff, so I'm making up for lost time now! :D

[Gormy Cuss]

5. I read all the "3 investigators" books that I could find. Never read Encyc. Brown

or Nancy Drew for that matter.

[krispos42]

6. Oh, yes I did

I read them a lot, and can't for the life of me remember anything about them except for these two facts:

Their hideout was an RV hidden in junk in a junkyard;

Their business card has a giant question mark on it.

:-)

[pagerbear]

8. I was thinking of those just the other day!

Was talking about books we read as kids, but I couldn't remember the name of the series. I loved them! Also loved Encyclopedia Brown! (And since my name is Browning, and I was a know-it-all kid....) I still remember some of the Encyclopedia Brown stories and how he caught clues everyone else missed.

I'll have to check out the links another commenter posted about these series.

I have a very vague memory of the name The Sylvers, but beyond that....

[Tyrone Slothrop]

9. Only 30 here -- but I wanted to be Jupiter Jones when I grew up

I loved those books when I was about 9-14 or so!

I think I was probably the only one who ever checked them out of our library.

[pepperbear]

18. that's so cool. I suppose the art work was updated. n/t

[Richard Steele]

10. I read all those, and loved them.

To this day, I still have a hankering to build
a hidden secret lab like that.

[Coventina]

11. Oh man, if the Three Investigators had groupies, I was one of them.

I soooo loved those books.

I've looked for them, but they seem to be out of print.
The "new" ones are terrible!! The characters were completely changed.

[WCGreen]

12. I loved Encyclopedia Brown and wanted a garage with an

upstairs so I too could fight crime...

[Giant Robot]

13. Also on the older side of Gen X here

And I remember the 3 Investigators and Encyclopedia Brown! I cannot pull up any specific memories of them, but I know I read them and did more than one book report on them in school. Thanks for the nice trip!

:hi:

[Connonym]

14. Read any I could get my hands on in 4th grade

Sister Anna was soooo impressed by all my book reports. Encyclopedia Brown too, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc. All culminating in long-term romantic crushes on fictional characters like Spenser and Travis McGee.

[Rob H.]

16. I think I've read most of the early 3 investigators books

Never read any Encyclopedia Brown, though. I remember thinking that the hideout/lab like they had in his uncle's junkyard was the coolest hideout EVAR.

According to this entry on wikipedia, the books are still hugely popular in Germany and several new ones come out every year. (There are more German than U.S. titles now--44 U.S. books and 82 German.) There's also a movie, The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island, due out this year.

Wow, who knew they were stil so popular? :shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

17. I am an X'er

And I read the Three Investigators books in the mid-70's, after 'graduating' from the Hardy Boys.

I loved the HQ in the trailer hiding under the pile of junk, that was the dream clubhouse, lol.

Lots of great fun.