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Claude Voilier
Claude Voilier (9 November 1917 – 22 May 2009) was a French teacher, journalist, translator (especially of popular English children's series such as The Three Investigators and The Dana Girls into French), and a prolific author, having written over 600 short stories for various French magazines, and about 400 stories for children. In the English-speaking world, she is best known for her continuation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five series of children's adventure novels. Claude Voilier was born Andrée Labedan around 1930. She wrote two popular novels for children, ''Le Manoir des cinq preux'' and ''Celle qu'on retrouva''. She was living in Arcachon (Gironde), France, at the time of her death in May 2009. Voilier's Famous Five series Starting from the early 1970s, and continuing up to the mid-1980s, Voilier wrote a series of books based on Enid Blyton's ''Famous Five'' series. The series comprises 24 books, 18 of which have been translated into English by Anthea Bell. Voilier had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Investigators
The Three Investigators is an American juvenile detective book series first published as "''Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators''". It was created by Robert Arthur Jr., who believed involving a famous person such as movie director Alfred Hitchcock would attract attention. Random House is the U.S. publisher and still has some of the rights to the books. Other rights are possessed by the heirs of Robert Arthur, Jr. and the German publisher Kosmos. The characters known as the "Three Investigators" are three boys named Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. As the series has become very popular in Germany, several stories have been produced directly for the German market. Most of the mysteries involved investigation of baffling phenomena (e.g., an ancient Egyptian mummy that apparently whispered and a human skull that seemed to talk). Original editions The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, one unfinished story (''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |