"We Investigate Anything"

-Mr. & Mrs. Andrews/Andy, les parents de Bob - 1ère Partie.  Dans le Chapitre 4 de The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot / Le Perroquet qui bégayait on retrouve une scène quasiment identique à celle du début de The Secret of Terror Castle / Au Rendez-vous des Revenats . Elle n'est malheureusement pas illustrée.   "Bob Andrews was eating his supper, in between glances at the telephone. He had been expecting it to ring any minute, ever since he got home from the library. [...]   But he was on dessert now - baked cup custard with a nice brown crust on top - and though he was scraping the last speck from the side of his dish, the phone still hadn't rung.   However, his mother, slender, brown-haired and attractive, caught his glance this time and seemed to recollect something with a start.   "My goodness!" Mrs. Andrews said. "I forgot. There was a message for you. Your friend Jupiter Jones called."   "He did?" Bob excla

Madeleine Prévost, 1977.   Suite à un échec cuisant, à savoir le vol de la majorité des perroquets par Huganay, nos trois amis détectives, enfermés dans leur Quartier Général, sentent le désespoir les envahir. Leur enquête semble se terminer là... lorsque Blackbeard, le mainate malicieux, se fait entendre: Jozef Cesnak (illustration slovaque).   "Another silence ensued, broken only by Blackbeard's noisy eating of sunflower seeds. At last Bob sighed.   "If only we could have made Captain Kidd, Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood talk when we had them all together," he said. "At least we'd have the whole message."   "Robin Hood." Blackbeard cocked an eye down at them. As usual, he seemed to be listening to everything. He flapped his wings.   "I'm Robin Hood!" he said clearly. "I shot an arrow as a test, a hundred paces shot it west."   Three boyish faces turned to stare up at the bird in his cage.   &qu