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The Three Investigators Mystery Series |
The summaries for #13, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 19 were taken from the back cover of the Random House softcover edition. The summaries for #16, 20, 21, and 22 were adapted from the back cover summary. |
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#12 The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow | ||
![]() As the boys try to discover the significance of the amulet and the appearance of the shadow, they must contend with villains desperate to obtain the amulet. The amulet may lead to a treasureand the boys must find it first! |
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#13 The Secret of the Crooked Cat | ||
![]() A thief runs off with a carnival prizean oddly shaped stuffed cat. The boys suspect the cat holds a clue to a much more valuable prizeone worth thousands of dollars! The thief is probably a carnival showman. Could he be the fearless lion tamer? The silent clown? The hulking strongman? The three young sleuths rush in eagerly to catch the crookonly to find the carnival overloaded with dangerous traps! |
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#14 The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon | ||
![]() The Three Investigators don't know if they believe Mr. Allen, but they're determined to find the dog. And that means exploring those dangerous caves...where something evil lurks, ready to catch unwary petsand detectives! |
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#15 The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints | ||
![]() The Potter isor wasan eccentric old ceramics artist, famous for wearing a long white robe and going barefoot. A short time ago he mysteriously disappeared. Now his house is filled with bare footprints that dance with ghostly green flames! Has The Potter died and come back to haunt his house? His family fears the worst. But The Three Investigators have a different ideabecause they aren't yet ready to believe in ghosts! |
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#16 The Mystery of the Nervous Lion | ||
![]() The Three Investigators creep through the jungle on a desperate search for clues. They must find out who's been disturbing the animalsbefore a wild animal finds them! |
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#17 The Mystery of the Singing Serpent | ||
![]() Allie asks The Three Investigators to chase Ariel away. But Ariel is protected by powerful forcesevil spirits and a singing snake! |
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#18 The Mystery of the Shrinking House | ||
![]() Unfortunately, everything has been soldthe old leather suitcases, the stuffed owl, even the strange paintings showing a house getting smaller and smaller. So the Countess hires The Three Investigators to track down her brother's belongings. The boys never dream that the "junk" might be valuable. But they soon discover that someone else is desperate to find the dead man's thingsand will stop at nothing to get them! |
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#19 The Secret of Phantom Lake | ||
![]() But now comes a riddle more than a hundred years old! Can even our formidable trio solve it? Can the stubborn trio solve a message from the dead, and find the secret of Phantom Lake? And if they docan they find it in time? |
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#20 The Mystery of Monster Mountain | ||
![]() The Three Investigators just wanted a quiet vacation at the inn. But they're not going to get itnot if the old legends are true and there really is a monster on Monster Mountain! |
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#21 The Secret of the Haunted Mirror | ||
![]() The Three Investigators agree to guard the mirror, never guessing how hair-raising the work will be. The ghostly image of a long-dead magician stares out of the mirror at night! The ancient mirror brings trouble not only from the livingbut also from the dead! |
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#22 The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle | ||
![]() Along with hundreds of others, The Three Investigators plunge eagerly into the wild treasure huntonly to discover that someone is following them in order to use their hunches to get to the treasure first! |
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