Robert Arthur Jr.

Arthur was born on November 10, 1909, in Fort Mills, Corregidor Island in the Philippines while his father, Robert Arthur Sr., was stationed there as a lieutenant in the United States Army. Arthur spent his childhood moving from place to place, wherever his father was stationed.[4]

Although he was accepted to West Point Arthur decided not to pursue a military career like his father and instead in 1926 enrolled at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. After two years, he transferred to the University of Michigan, where he graduated from with a B.A. in English in 1930.

Arthur died at the age of fifty-nine in Philadelphia, on May 2, 1969.[5]

After graduating, he worked as an editor and later returned to the University of Michigan where he completed his M.A. in Journalism in 1932.[6]

His stories were published in, among other magazines, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mercury Mystery , Amazing Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Black Mask, Collier's, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Double Detective, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, Startling Stories, Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Unknown Worlds and Wonder Stories.

Additionally, Arthur wrote a number of mystery novels for children and young adults. His most successful stories were a series of mystery books called The Three Investigators.

In 1959, he moved to Hollywood and began writing and editing screenplays and scripts for television shows.[7]

• 1: The Secret of Terror Castle (1964)
• 2: The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot (1964)
• 3: The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy (1965)
• 4: The Mystery of the Green Ghost (1965)
• 5: The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure (1966)
• 6: The Secret of Skeleton Island (1966)
• 7: The Mystery of the Fiery Eye (1967)
• 8: The Mystery of the Silver Spider (1967)
• 9: The Mystery of the Screaming Clock (1968)
• 11: The Mystery of the Talking Skull (1969)

Three Investigator novels numbered 10 and 12 to 43 were written by other authors.

• Ghosts and More Ghosts (1963)
• Mystery and More Mystery (1966)
• The Midnight Visitor

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night (1961)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful (1961)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself-Mysteries (1963) (All stories written by Robert Arthur with the exception of "The Mystery of the Sinister Theft")
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories That My Mother Never Told Me (1963)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum (1965)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories Not for the Nervous (1965)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies (1966)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories That Scared Even Me (1967)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense (1967)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV (1968)
• Davy Jones Haunted Locker (1965)
• Spies and More Spies (1967)
• Thrillers and More Thrillers (1968)
• Monster Mix (1968)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives (1969)

• The Unforeseen (1960)
• Matinee Theatre (1955) (episode: "The Babylonian Heart")
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (episode: "The Jokester")
• Thriller (1961–1962) (episodes: "An Attractive Family", "Dialogues with Death", "The Prisoner in the Mirror")