da rollen sich einem die fußnägel hoch: ich gebe es ja zu - ich lese die drei fragezeichen, weil alles andere in diese richtung schon zuuuuuu nervenaufreibend für mich ist. gruselfilme kucke ich nicht mal mit geschlossenen augen,... ABER dieses Buch ist wirklich SUPER. ich konnte es kaum aus der hand legen, weil es spannend geschrieben ist und es einen beim miterleben der suche nach gespensterschloß und blauem phantom an sich fesselt.
mir fiel auf,wie auch schon in einer vorherigen rezension geschrieben: der unterschied zu den neuen (deutschen) geschichten ist GRAVIEREND! ion den ersten bänden sind die charaktere feiner dargestellt und auch die umgebung der ???.
ich gebe dem buch ohne zu zweifeln 5 *****!
Viel spaß beim lesen, janna

I loved this children's series when I was a kid, and it was with nostalgic pleasure that I found this first book, in which the precociously intelligent and ambitious Jupiter Jones, after winning a chauferred limousine in a contest decides to start an investigation agency with his two friends. They succeed in getting Alfred Hitchcock to be a sort of sponsor for their exploits. I was pleased to see that the first book held its interest for me, although my son Jacob unfortunately did not share my interest. He's a good boy anyway. ( )

I was quite surprised when I picked up this memory from my youth, to find that this version should have been renamed "Reginald Clarke and the Three Investigators", a title which I don't think would have sold too many copies back in the day. But the text is pretty much the same other than that. The series more or less is an American transplant of one of Enid Blyton's series for older children; the action takes place in California but the intrepid youths must still face down the bad guys with little or no adult assistance. The characters are almost child detective archetypes: the chubby brainy one, the athletic but scaredycat one, and the smaller bookish one. But every child will dream of having a hideout like the Investigators' Headquarters, with its location cunningly hidden in a junkyard and its thrillingly named entrances like Green Gate One and Tunnel Two. Today's young readers might find some references jarring, like the characters being very impressed that their car has a mobile phone in it, but literate children are very resilient - which is why the Hardy Boys rewrites were so unnecessary - and the action is constant. It would take a dedicated reader to make it through the whole series without outgrowing it, though. ( )

The three investigators have their first assignment-find a truly haunted house for Alfred Hitchcock's next movie. They find a local house supposedly haunted by its owner, a deceased silent movie star. ( )

I loved this series when I was a child, and am looking forward to reading them sometime soon with my son. ( )