Books with title The Mystery of the Walking Statue

When Jupiter buys an old trunk, he's stunned to find a skull inside - especially one that talks! The skull gives him a muddle of information about disappearing victims and hidden wealth. It just doesn't make sense. And are the clues hidden in the trunk, or in the skull itself? Whether they like it or not, the Three Investigators have another mystery to solve....

The Three Investigators must solve this mystery as well as others after buying a magician's trunk- replete with a talking skull- which leads them on a dangerous quest for long lost bank loot. A cryptic note found in the trunk leads the investigators to a fortune teller who gives them a veiled warning. A warning that turns out to be true as a gang trails them out of the junkyard headquarters owned by the uncle of head detective Jupiter Jones. The question that Jupiter must answer is the whereabouts of the lost loot. The loquacious skull knows more about the loot than he is letting on. The skull is one of many leads in this concisely written boy's mystery. The leads lead to an easily solved plot...perhaps too easy to solve. I am no super sleuth when it comes to detective plots; I found myself absorbed, yet not mystified by this mystery plot.

When a priceless-and cursed-Egyptian statue suddenly disappears out of a collector's home, Rick, Jed and their ingenious robot, Meek, are determined to find out the facts. Soon they are hot on a trail of international thieves and a mystery that spans millenniums, where danger lurks at every turn. Is the horrible curse of Ash-ba about to be fulfilled? Rick, Jed and Meek are about to find out.