# What was this mystery series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-mystery-series/171152 "2003-04-25T17:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-mystery-series/171152/1 "2003-04-25T17:38:58Z")
When I was a kid I read a series of books about two, maybe more, kids who solved mysteries. One of the boys’ uncle owned a junk yard and they had a clubhouse hidden in an old motorhome behind piles of junk. One of the boys was a genius and built all kinds of gadgets from the junk they collected from the yard. Any ideas? I remember really enjoying them and being envious of the adventures and the gadgets they made. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-mystery-series/171152/2 "2003-04-25T18:14:23Z")
[The Three Investigators](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394864069/qid=1051294623/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-7936213-8704908?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). I loved those books as a kid, too! I wonder how they’d read now… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-mystery-series/171152/3 "2003-04-25T18:44:07Z")
Wasn’t it the Alfred Hitchcock series? These kids had won some sort of contest and had use of a Rolls Royce limosine free for a year. One of them had a leg brace…and their club house was in an abandoned house trailer at the bottom of a pile of junk in a junk yard… ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-mystery-series/171152/4 "2003-04-25T18:46:27Z")
Here’s a [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=148334) to an earlier thread on this series of books. The series was actually called “Alfred Hitchcock presents The Three Investigators.”