The Mystery of the Talking Skull

Author: Robert Arthur
Cover Illustration: Harry Kane
Internal Illustrations: Harry Kane

Synopsis:
Jupiter becomes the winner at an auction of a trunk belonging to a former magician. Among the items in the trunk is a skull that seems to talk. The skull leads them into a mystery where they must deduce the location of money that has been missing from a bank robbery for some years.

Tidbits: This was Robert Arthur's last entry in the Three Investigators series before his death. His naming of the gangsters in this book ("Three-Finger," "Smooth," "Leo", and "Baby-Face") give grand images of the characters without having to give much else explanation.

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Internal Illustrations from "The Mystery of the Talking Skull" as drawn by Harry Kane in the U.S. version of the story
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Internal Illustrations from "The Mystery of the Talking Skull" as drawn by Roger Hall* in the U.K. version of the story
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*Thanks to Ian Regan for supplying the Roger Hall images