Welcome To The Salvage Yard

I'm thrilled you've joined us here at The Salvage Yard where the legacy of The Three Investigators continues to thrive. My father, Robert Arthur, brought a lifetime of experience to the task of crafting mysteries for young people, and his Three Investigators universe has been capturing the hearts and minds of young readers since its debut in 1964.

I’ve been writing for adults all my life, but since no new Three Investigators novels have been written for over thirty years now, in November of 2018 (and to my own astonishment) I decided to create and co-write a rebooted, contemporary Three Investigators series in collaboration with my husband Steven Bauer and, six years later, we’ve actually gotten it done.

The new series features twenty-six books – one for every letter of the Roman alphabet – combining stand-alone mysteries with an overarching narrative. The first book begins with Jupiter, Pete, and Bob on the cusp of turning fourteen, while the last book ends just after their graduation from high school. In the course of the series a new character, Mallory MacLeod, becomes a Special Consultant to the firm.

The new series is contemporary but retains the timeless quality of the classic Three Investigators novels. Just like the old ones, the new books are rich in historical and cultural exploration, and feature both heroes and villains from a wide variety of American sub-cultures, but they are a third again longer than the originals, and are aimed at a slightly older audience.

The first three books are set to be published on March 3, 2025, with subsequent three-book releases every three months, leading to the two-part series conclusion on March 3, 2027.

Here at The Salvage Yard, you'll get a sneak peek at the adventures to come, since I’ll be posting the first four chapters of each new Three Investigators novel either just before or shortly after the books themselves hit the shelves.

Thank you for sharing this fantastically surprising part of my life with me. Both Steven and I feel incredibly lucky to have had the chance to live with, admire, and intimately access both the inner and the outer lives of three amazing boys who became archetypes for young detectives in literature.

With all best wishes,

Elizabeth Arthur