The Secret of Terror Castle

In my school days when adventure started to unfold its truest meaning to our young souls, the books that mostly gave a thrilling company comprised mainly of adventures shrouded in a veil of mystery. Thus it was no doubt the Three Investigators franchise held a special place in my mind and still now I continue being a fan of the Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw, Robert Andrews and the ever-friendly Worthington, the chaeffeur of the gold plated Rolls Royce that Jupe won as a free rental service in a competition that challenged everyody's intelligence. The apparently spooky phenomenon they were introduced to appealed to my fascination even more.

Initially, I was under the misconception that Alfred Hitchcock was the writer and my young mind was even more confused when several author's name cropped up in various volumes. But finally I understood that the serial was continued by various author at different times.

The Secret of Terror Castle was penned by Robert Arthurr Jr., who created the sleuths and engaged them to a case for investigating a haunted castle purportedly for Alfred Hitchcock. The brainy Jupe, the athletic Pete and the researcher Bob thus form the group and tries to hunt the ghosts of a castle whose owner, a renowned movie star of the silent movie era specializing in scary movies, had apparently committed suicide. As they started investigating they are threatened by eerie messages and the ghostly activities inside the castle itself seem too much for all except Jupe whose motto was to solve anything and everything. Thus the investigation are sure to thrill the young minds and also are enjoyable even today when I took the opportunity to go through it once more.

The novel finishes off with a promise for the next case which was again presented to them apparently by Alfred Hitchcock and thus even when the final chapters are done with the excitement remains for the next!!