Secret of Skeleton Island

by Robert Arthur

Book Overview

Jupe, Pete, and Bob's next case sends them to Skeleton Island, an eerie spot inhabited only by pirates' bones and a young girl's ghost. A movie company has chosen the island as the perfect place to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590303252
• ISBN13: 9780590303255
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Good Book! (HA,HA)

This book is a great book. You can't tell who the bad guy is at all! The story really twists and you may start to think that Chris is the bad guy. Chris is a boy who looks for the treasure that a pirate was supposed to dump into the water. The 3 investigators go on a trip to Skelleton island to shoot a picture, but really to discover the secret of a ghost that is haunting Bob Andrews dad movie crew. When they come during a storm a guy takes and strands the 3 investigators on an island. That is were they meet Chris! There are quite a few suspicious people that I suspected. This is one of the best books out of the series(in my opinion). This book may look stupid but it is a great book. And beware you will be staying up all night reading this book!

Ghosts, Pirates, and Treasure--Oh Boy!

In this adventure, the Three Investigators venture far away from Rocky Beach, California--3000 miles away to a haunted island on the east coast where Pete's father is working to restore an old thrill park for a movie he is working on. Having met with stolen equipment and the appearance of a ghost, the boys are sent for to figure out who is trying to keep the movie company away from Skeleton Island. The boys meet with danger and duplicity at every turn, it seems, getting themselves into even more trouble than usual--several times by their own doing. ... There aren't really any plot twists or surprises in this story. What seems to me to be the biggest clue to the whole mystery flops out at you like a dead fish right in the middle of the book, and you have to wait until the end to see Jupiter finally seize upon it. Overall, though, it is still a pretty good story. It's hard to go wrong when you are writing about pirates, ghosts, and treasure. My childhood obsession with the secret headquarters at the Salvage Yard obviously continues because I certainly missed it in this book. The boys seemed to be somewhat out of their element here, and it shows. Of course, nothing can stop them from solving a mystery once they are on the case.

It's one of the best books I've read!

The book is about three investagators that are taping a movie,but well they are taping they acutually experience the tragic story that happend 10 years ago! Trust me you would love this story! Well I'm not finished with the book yet so I don't know the rest but it's really good so far!That's my review!

BUY THIS FOR YOUR KIDS!!!

I rate The Mystery of Skeleton Island as one of the VERY BEST of the Three Investigator series. It proved that Jupiter, Pete and Bob can handle any mystery that comes their way - even if it's on the other side of the country! With this story, the reader is transported out of Rocky Beach for the first time as the boys join Pete's dad on the set of the movie "Chase Me Faster." Thrills and chills abound as a ghost terrorizes the set of the movie. So far it seems as if Random House is only re-issuing the Robert Arthur titles. Hopefully Random House will see that there is still a huge fan base that has been longing for more adventures of those three intrepid slueths from Rocky Beach. I would highly recommend The Secret of Skeleton Island - and every Three Investigator book - to any parent discouraged that their child won't read. BUY THIS BOOK!!!

Good reading material, exciting!!

It is great to build the collection of all "The Three Investigator" books for our own children now! What happy memories these books bring back to those of us who read them ourselves "many" years ago...(or at least it seems like many). Great reading to pass on to the next generation!!