The Secret of Terror Castle

The three? and the Haunted Manor is the first episode of the series of books The three? and the eleventh episode of the radio drama series. The result was also the inspiration for the film The Three Investigators - The Secret of Terror Castle.

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Content

After the founding of her detective agencies are looking for three? a client for their first case. Peter knows from his father, who works in film and television that Alfred Hitchcock ( in new editions after 2005, Hitchcock was replaced by the fictional director Albert Hitfield ) for a movie a real Gespensterschloss investigated. With a little skill and persuasiveness make it the three boys to win Alfred Hitchcock as principal. You will also find an abandoned castle, in the haunted since his owner Stephen Terrill died. The three? make their way to fathom the mystery of the Haunted Manor.

The resolution

Terrill had only faked his death and lived for years disguised under the name Jonathan Rex on. Using his friend Mr. Charlie Grant, he built some things into the Gespensterschloss that help them offset all the people who entered the castle in fear and terror. After resolution of the case, Alfred Hitchcock found later, however, another castle, which he used for his film. Nevertheless, he maintains contact with the three? upright and gives them even end up a piece of paper with the address of a friend whose parrot is gone (only in the original edition available). This then was the three? and the super parrot.

Reviews

The play has many very good reviews in Europe - shop.

But criticism was that this was not the first episode, set to music Europe, but only the eleventh. So Jürgen Pern writes of Buchwurm.info:

Requirements

• Exact sales figures are cosmos not known, but according to information gathered here suggest in the books that there were 17 editions 1968-1989, of which there were a total of 247,000 copies of the first 16 editions (at the time was the number of copies in the books ). This makes it one of the best selling books of the three? . In 2009, the book was launched over again because of the film, but is now only in the Collector's Edition available in all the works Robert Arthur are included.
• The first two editions have no black design and the cover does not come from Aiga Rasch, but by Jochen Bartsch. In total, only 11,000 of those copies published.
• When Alfred Hitchcock died, and that the license for the use of his name for books of The Three Investigators declined in the United States, volumes 1 through 30 were revised consuming. Hitchcock was replaced by the writer Hector Sebastian. But as a director was for this episode needed, you replace it here by Reginald Clarke.

Trivia

Introductions

In addition to the first meeting with Alfred Hitchcock and the establishment of the detective agencies there are more important things in the course of the series, which were introduced in this episode. These include:

• The famous business cards of three? be printed.
• Justus wins a contest (how many beans fit in a pot, which stands in the window of the car company ) for one month free trips with the Rolls- Royce with a chauffeur.
• Due to a broken leg Bob gets assigned to the department research and archive. Although his leg is healed quickly, but to date this is still his territory.

More

• The Haunted Manor is one of two books in the first 40 episodes, the cosmos has re-issued as a single hardcover in this millennium. The other is ... and the Haunted Island. Both were the books to the movies.
• In the U.S. there are not really any castles and fortresses. However, Terrill has had rebuild his castle.
• In the radio play is not clear how Terrill and Rex could be together in a photo. It was a photo montage.
• In addition to the U.S. and the German-speaking countries, the book was published in the UK, Spain, Catalonia, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Israel, Indonesia and Vietnam. Thus, it has been translated into 18 different languages. Also, appeared in Switzerland in 1989 a radio play adaptation in Swiss German.
• The result was awarded a platinum record.

Filming

Except for the Haunted Manor and the name Stephen Terrill the film with the original has very little in common.