The DJ is a bit torn at the top edge, the book itself is in good order. This is the only way to get these later stories in hardback in the UK, so this is a worthwhile volume to pick up. Not too sure about the quality of the stories in here, though. It’s been a while since I read any of them, but I seem to remember Cranky Collector being a tad poor and The Kidnapped Whale a tedious piece of nonsense about bad guys training a beached whale to steal sunken treasure. Conventional wisdom appears to be that the only good Three Investigators stories were those written by Robert Arthur and the rest are all (more or less) crap. I would disagree to an extent and say that the best books in the series included those by Robert Arthur and William Arden. And all the rest are (more or less) crap. I’ll need to do a more scientific analysis and see if this theory holds any water. Watch this space, fellow bloggers. Friday, 29 April 2011
The Mystery of the Trail of the Kidnapped Collector
That hardback Marks and Spencer edition has come in the post:
The DJ is a bit torn at the top edge, the book itself is in good order. This is the only way to get these later stories in hardback in the UK, so this is a worthwhile volume to pick up. Not too sure about the quality of the stories in here, though. It’s been a while since I read any of them, but I seem to remember Cranky Collector being a tad poor and The Kidnapped Whale a tedious piece of nonsense about bad guys training a beached whale to steal sunken treasure. Conventional wisdom appears to be that the only good Three Investigators stories were those written by Robert Arthur and the rest are all (more or less) crap. I would disagree to an extent and say that the best books in the series included those by Robert Arthur and William Arden. And all the rest are (more or less) crap. I’ll need to do a more scientific analysis and see if this theory holds any water. Watch this space, fellow bloggers.
The DJ is a bit torn at the top edge, the book itself is in good order. This is the only way to get these later stories in hardback in the UK, so this is a worthwhile volume to pick up. Not too sure about the quality of the stories in here, though. It’s been a while since I read any of them, but I seem to remember Cranky Collector being a tad poor and The Kidnapped Whale a tedious piece of nonsense about bad guys training a beached whale to steal sunken treasure. Conventional wisdom appears to be that the only good Three Investigators stories were those written by Robert Arthur and the rest are all (more or less) crap. I would disagree to an extent and say that the best books in the series included those by Robert Arthur and William Arden. And all the rest are (more or less) crap. I’ll need to do a more scientific analysis and see if this theory holds any water. Watch this space, fellow bloggers. 
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