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He walked extensively in France and Germany and supported himself for a time writing for French newspapers.


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It was one of his sensational stories in 'The Petit Journal' that attracted the attention of the French novelist Emile Zola and it was supposedly he who encouraged Le Queux to become a full-time writer. In the late s he returned to London where he edited the magazines 'Gossip' and 'Piccadilly' before joining the staff of the newspaper 'The Globe' in as a parliamentary reporter.

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But he resigned in and decided to abandon journalism to concentrate on writing and travelling. On his travels he found it necessary to become an expert revolver shot. His first book was 'Guilty Bonds' , which concentrated on political conspiracy in Russia to such a degree that it was subsequently banned in that country. A series of short stories 'Strange Tales of a Nihilist' followed in and from then on he was producing books on a regular basis until his death, and beyond, as a number of posthumous works were published. His works mainly related to espionage activity and it was said that he was employed for a number of years as a member of the British Secret Service, where he was an expert on wireless transmission.

He stated at one time that he began writing to help finance his work for British Intelligence for whom he was required to undertake much travelling and to make personal contact with royalty and other high-ranking people. He recorded some of the latter meetings in his autobiography entitled 'Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks' He was also a keen collector of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals.

However, all his activities did not stop him turning out novel after novel and at the time of his death he had well over books to his credit.

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After several weeks' illness, he died at Knocke, Belgium, in the early hours of 13 October His body was returned to England and on 19 October he was cremated at Golders Green with the Reverend Francis Taylor of Bedford conducting the service, which was attended by Le Queux's brother and a few intimate friends. Gerry Wolstenholme January Books by William Le Queux. Trivia About The Mysterious Three.


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No trivia or quizzes yet. However, the copyright remained with him. The contract included the rights to publish books, films, comics and mechanical sound reproduction.

Since there was no significant audio book market at that time, it is legally not clearly determinable and therefore doubtful whether this "mechanical sound reproduction" describes the medium of audio books or radio plays as they exist now. The Franckh-Kosmos publisher of Random House acquired the German-speaking exploitation rights in After Robert Arthur's death in , the copyrights were given to the University of Michigan. In his testimony , Arthur declared that "all rights, legal titles and stakes, [he] owned by the time of [his] death, concerning all published books, short stories, plays or unpublished manuscripts, including all issued copyright claims, just as all rights for license fees and subsidiary rights, as it is specified in his contracts with publishers" were to be given to the University of Michigan.

This is said to mainly be for fiscal reasons because legacies given to education establishments avoid inheritance taxes. Since then Random House has been paying royalties to the university, however, stopped doing so as of , because it was not clear whether the University of Michigan still had a legal entitlement.

The American copyright law said that literature, which received a copyright before , had a safeguard clause, which made sure that all licenses automatically returned to the author or his heirs after 28 years. As a result of that, Random House and Arthur's heirs, his children Elizabeth Ann Arthur and Robert Andrew Arthur, signed a contract for the rights of use of the volumes of Arthur and the further usage of the characters, under the condition that the 10 books were to be brought back onto the American market.

After the series was discontinued in the US in , Kosmos Verlag sought the rights to continue the series in Germany with German authors, and in signed a corresponding contract with Random House without the consent of Arthur's heirs. In , Random House returned the rights of the ten volumes to Robert Arthur's heirs after the publisher failed to comply with the agreed republications of the works. In , however, Kosmos-Verlag had already registered the word mark "Die Drei??? Negotiations between Kosmos Verlag and the heirs on a new usage rights agreement failed because Kosmos relied on its trademark registration and ongoing agreements with Random House.


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Furthermore, Kosmos doubted that Arthur's heirs were the right holders since according to Arthur's will, all rights were to be transferred to the University of Michigan. At the end of , Random House and Kosmos signed an extensive agreement to transfer all rights to the other American novels not written by Arthur to Kosmos Verlag. Due to the unclear legal situation, EUROPA decided at the beginning of not to publish any further episodes based on the book templates of Kosmos Verlag and discontinued the license payments to Kosmos. In , the parent company of the European label Sony Music Entertainment formerly Sony BMG finally gained all the German rights on Arthur's creations and the use of the original characters and showplaces independently from Kosmos publishing house of Robert Arthur's successors.

The contract contained the right to order new books in German, as well as the right to evaluate the sound storage medium. Moreover, all were transferred: The Kosmos publishing house continued its series of books under well-known titles and with famous character's names. The society filed a lawsuit against the Kosmos publishing house because Sony BMG itself saw its exploitation rights violated. Because of this, the two books had to be taken off the market retroactively. The judges were unable to identify Robert Arthur's children as the rightful owners of the copyright law.

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They found that the University of Michigan rightfully inherited the works of Robert Arthur and his characters, meaning that his heirs could not have transferred the rights to Sony BMG. A due date was set for the complainant of Sony BMG to submit the new chain-of-title as well as the new contracts as they were available to her. The final release date of Episodes 7 and 8 was 30 November On February 13, Sony BMG announced that they had come to an agreement with Kosmos, predating a joint press release on the following day.

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The rights to the books as well as the brand name, which were the foundation for the audio dramas remained with Kosmos as well as all other publishing products, including calendars, non-fiction literature, mobile and computer games, science kits and board games. The rights to use audio material with the inclusion of the entire catalog as well as stage shows, plays and the commercialization of merchandise remain with the record label Europa.

The already published audio play episodes were sold by the previous license holder USM until late The contents of the stories were thus tailored to be more suitable for children and to be less complex. Besides, with an age of only ten years, the young detectives are considerably younger than in the current episodes of the original series. The Three Investigators has also been published in Bangladesh by Sheba Prokashoni as Tin Goyenda translated by Rakib Hasan since the s and appealed to many young Bangladeshi readers until s. The stories are generally set in Rocky Beach, California, although the investigators travel to exotic places like Africa and Bangladesh on occasions.

Nearly books have been published by now. In Denmark, 13 books were published from by Hasselbalch under the title " Alfred Hitchcock og De tre Detektiver " [2]. Throughout the s and s, the series continued. As a whole, 37 volumes including four of the Crimebusters series has been published.

The Three Investigators books have always been very popular in Germany. They are known there as Die drei??? Bob Andrews retained his original name. The chauffeur's name is Morton. In the Random House publishing company and the Kosmos publishing company started to publish the translated 43 original books.

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In the German publisher Europa started a radio drama based on those original 43 books. In Kosmos started to publish new written books by German authors which were and still are continued as radio dramas in Germany. All in all, this would result in a canon of books 6 books per year, 3 during spring and 3 during autumn and radio dramas published as of September Because of a litigation between Europa and Kosmos which disallowed the use of the names Europa used, they published a 9 episode radio drama named "DiE Dr3i" between and In total, the radio dramas have sold more than 45 million copies and the books about 16 million copies in Germany The radio actors, who have been narrating the plays since , toured the country multiple times to perform plays in front of a live-audience.

In the booklet of the German audio play The Mystery of the Invisible Dog , the episode upon which it was based is credited erroneously to Nick West. New English-language Three Investigators titles were released during for the first time since As of May , a total of seven German stories had been translated and published in this format, and an eighth title was planned for publication during October In a similar way as the original, the book series contains stories about a teenage detective trio, only this time consisting of three girls; the stories take place in a big German city.

These were published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama the biggest book publisher in Indonesia , Jakarta from the s to In Italy, the Three Investigators novels have been published in paperback form by Mondadori, during the s and s, within their Il giallo dei ragazzi series, which included the Hardy Boys , Nancy Drew and other juvenile sleuths' adventures.

The cover author for the Three Investigators books was always Alfred Hitchcock, whereas the inner copyright notice correctly reported the real author although saying "Text by No other publications of the novels are known. The German demand for the adventures of The Three Investigators produced another offshoot in The Three Investigators books have been published in Lithuania and were popular among teenagers.

The Three Investigators have been published in Pakistan, in Urdu , as Teen nanhay suraghrasaan since the by the Ferozsons publications.

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They have also been published in the monthly Taleem-o Tarbiat magazine for children. The name of their Mercedes Benz driver is Allahdad. They live in Karimabad. Umber is tall and lanky as opposed to Jupiter's character, who is stocky. Naseem, like Pete, is the most athletic of all. They have done a good job adapting the stories to match Pakistani culture and geography.

Sixty-one original stories including Crimebusters have been published in Poland by Siedmiorog , where they were recently still very popular. The first book published was The Secret of Terror Castle in the s second edition in The cover author for the Three Investigators books was always Alfred Hitchcock. In the first editions the inner copyright notice correctly reported the real author although saying "written in cooperation with In the French, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Italian version of the series, the books were at one time published with Alfred Hitchcock listed as their author.

The same error was made in some German paperback editions published at the beginning of the s. Moreover, the British series reversed the order of 42 and 43, meaning that the Armada original series ends with Wreckers' Rock. The new Latin-American edition has the name of Los tres detectives instead of Los Tres Investigadores , which was used in Spain for earlier editions. Catalan translations were also published. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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