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Adventurers Three - Enid Blyton

This book got just a passing mention in Journal 13 page 54 Winter 2000.
Is it in the cave? I can't seem to find any info on it?



Hope the chap in the foreground doesn't sit back on that big anchor!

I remember reading about it in that Journal, but I don't think anything more was ever discovered about it. I have a feeling it was agreed it may well be a fake!

The title seems a bit odd, surely it should be either 'Adventurous Three' or ' The Three Adventurers'

Thanks for the replies.It's a mystery to me!

Also, as can be seen by the font used on the actual article, the font on the cover is a typical computer font - doesn't look very old fashioned to me.

The opening chapter also seems to employ many typical Enid Blyton traits - food, an island, the use of 'Mummy' and seems in a hurry to get started - almost as if this is someone copying Enid's style, in my view.

The font puts me in mind of an Armada paperback.

I agree, it does sound suspiciously like a fake to me — and yeah...

pete9012S wrote: Hope the chap in the foreground doesn't sit back on that big anchor!

It would also be very, very unusual for Enid to write a full-length adventure book with only male characters! The Malory Towers and St Claire's books are the only books she ever wrote with characters of just one sex. Her adventure books always had both boys and girls, so they appealed to a wider audience!

That was my immediate thought too, Rob.

My thought too. Peter, Jack and Roger with no girl. Although, I admit there are short stories with only boys or girls in them. But not in full-length stories.

pete9012S wrote:Adventurers Three - Enid Blyton

This book got just a passing mention in Journal 13 page 54 Winter 2000.
Is it in the cave? I can't seem to find any info on it?



Hope the chap in the foreground doesn't sit back on that big anchor!

Have a look at my article on page 40 of Journal 14, Pete, that tells you quite a bit more about the book.

Thanks Tony! Interesting to read more. I'd read it before but it was good to refresh my memory. It seems most likely it was either published privately (maybe just for the Thompson brothers as a Christmas present!) or it is a complete hoax. I'd prefer to believe it was the former...but I'm afraid I'm not convinced by the cover illustration - or rather, the fact the font used is somewhat modern in style. As you suggest in the article, Tony, usually this sort of cover wouldn't usually include the title, but just be a paste-down of the internal frontispiece illustration, with the title on the cloth boards. If it wasn't for the font, I'd probably believe it was a private publication just for Enid's 'guinea pigs' from the Thompson family.

Tony Summerfield wrote:
Have a look at my article on page 40 of Journal 14, Pete, that tells you quite a bit more about the book.

Will do!

Thank you.

Well I found the article and would you believe I have already put orange marker on the title in the contents page and put an orange tick by the title of the story itself.
I don't remember doing that or reading the account though!

I think you handled yourself like a gentleman with this book and it's provenance Tony.
A friend has a saying: 'You can't kid a kidder.' I would add that 'You can't kid an expert either.'

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction about this mystery book.

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I don't have Journal number 14.

Is there any chance of that article being repeated in an up and coming Journal, Tony?

I was just going to say, perhaps someone could offer a summary of that article or a few excerpts of it here for those of us who don't have that particular Journal... please?