A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: the Adventure of the Train of the Dead - Couverture souple

Sacker, Ormond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781454981 ISBN 13 : 9781781454985

Editeur : Ammonite Press, 2025

Synopsis

A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: Adventure of the Train of the Dead is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages.

The sixth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Train of the Dead, is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book, and adventure story. Readers will take on the role of the world's foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he embarks on a journey full of twists and turns.

Colonel Lysander Stark is a ruthless gang-leader who was running a counterfeiting operation in the City of London until the police captured him and his gang. Of course, the raid was made thanks to the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. However, shortly after his capture and subsequent sentencing, the Colonel escapes from prison.

A month later, an unusual series of unaccompanied passengers-in coffins, with one-way tickets—ride on the Necropolis Railway to be buried at Brookwood Cemetery in London: the first is a John A. Watson, two days later a John B. Watson, and some days after that a John C. Watson.

Whose bodies are in the coffins? Who is buying their tickets? Can you, as Holmes, solve the mystery before your loyal companion John H. Watson is riding on the train of the dead?

 

Culminating in the huge London Necropolis, the adventure finds you solving puzzles set as a deadly challenge by the vindictive and embittered Colonel Stark. Can you solve the puzzles and save your one and only friend from a terrible ending?

This book combines:

• Riddles
• Logic Puzzles
• Timed Challenges
• Mathematical Brainteasers
• Maps and Mazes

 

Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages with the other titles in this bestselling series, including:

• The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the London Waterworks 
• The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum 
• A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London 
• A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book:The Adventure of the Analytical Engine 
• A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Two Flying Scotsmen

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Before writing puzzle-based books, Ormond Sacker served as note-taker and assistant to a London-based consulting detective, a role he held until being controversially superseded by a more qualified and less strangely named replacement. As a young man, Sacker studied medicine at St Bartholemews before joining the British Army, where he was attached as a surgeon to the Berkshire Regiment of Foot. It was specifically feet that led to his dismissal, following an odd number (both in quantity and circumstance) of amputation errors. To this day he stands by his assertion that "left" and "right" are subjective terms that depend upon which end of the table one is standing. His military training, international travels, and experience of curious crime, together with an intimate relationship with the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have given him a unique view of the world. Such a character is clearly the ideal author of a book of Holmes-based conundrums and problems. Ormond Sacker is sometimes mixed up. At such times he is no card smoker, and lives in cranked rooms.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ammonite Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781454981
• ISBN 13: 9781781454985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible