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The Path of Peril - David Fickling and Perry Hinton

The Path of Peril - David Fickling and Perry Hinton

An Indiana Jones-esque adventure puzzle book where you have to follow the trail of a murdered explorer. Institute Copy.

Published: 1985
Solved: ???

Pages: 32
ISBN: 978140318982
Publisher: Puffin Books

In this puzzle book Edmund Mallory has been murdered and his diary, notebook and study have been shredded. The Bloodstone is missing. You have to follow his trail, decipher the fragments and solve the mystery of who the murderer was and where the Bloodstone is.

This books contains a collection of beautiful images of various parts of the world scattered with diary fragments, these have text on them and symbols, and there are clues hidden in the images as well.

This puzzle book did not have a physical prize, solving it would have to be the reward itself.