With the death of series creator Robert Arthur after the eleventh book in the series, The Mystery of the Talking Skull (1969), the Three Investigators were passed into the hands of Dennis Lynds, under the William Arden nom de plume he had used for the tenth book in the series, The Mystery of the Moaning Cave (1968).

As the current glut of Golden Age detective fiction reprints is making us all aware, copyrights can be a tricky thing.  An author’s intellectual property is the characters and plots they create, and allowing others to have access to them is correctly something which is very closely guarded.

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