I received an interesting email
recently, bloggers, from a fellow T3I fan who told me of his passion for these
most nectar of books. He and his two
mates were so into them that they started their own detective agency, with the
intention of solving as many mysteries as they could. I’m not sure how successful they were as a
detective agency, but he did mention the story of the time when one of the boys’
mother was suspicious as to the contents of the briefcase that these three kept
their case notes in as they made their way to and from the attic that served as
headquarters. Her reasoning seemed to be
that what else would boys have in a locked briefcase in a loft other than tod
mags?
Anyway this correspondent explained
to me that his first exposure to the Three Investigators was via the Terror
Castle audio cassette, with which he was so enamoured that he sought out the
books and went on to be a huge fan. The
reason I mention this story, bloggers is this:
It arrived in the mail recently
from an eBay seller who had it listed along with another couple of unrelated
childrens audio books. Of course I
snapped it up, as my collection was lacking in that department. If you haven’t heard these audio adaptations
of Terror Castle and Stuttering Parrot, I urge you to seek out a copy
immediately; you can probably find them converted to MP3 and available on some
bit torrent site or other. They are
absolutely of the highest quality with an outstanding performance by Valentine
Dyall as Hitch himself. They are also
hugely faithful to the source books, bloggers, so much so that Bob doesn't get it on with any pre-teen temptresses, in fact he does exactly what he does in the book! So if the movies pissed you off
because they were not exactly faithful, maybe these will be more up your street.
