Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and the murderer.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Teen category by the Grand Canyon Reader Award. It was recognised in the Grades 6-9 category by the Black-Eyed Susan Award. It also was recognised in the YA category by the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1994 by Laurel Leaf Library .

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore , The S ance , The Name of the Game Was Murder , and The Other Side of the Dark , which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.