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The Ultimate Mystery Puzzle Book

Role play, codes and cases to crack
Brief Description
Put your detective skills to the ultimate test in this fiendish puzzle activity book. This book features a series of thrilling detective cases to work through, with brain-boggling puzzles to crack along the way. And the best part is you are the private investigator at the... Read More
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Put your detective skills to the ultimate test in this fiendish puzzle activity book.

A detective-themed puzzle book for children aged 8+.

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Put your detective skills to the ultimate test in this fiendish puzzle activity book.

This book features a series of thrilling detective cases to work through, with brain-boggling puzzles to crack along the way. And the best part is you are the private investigator at the centre of the action.

Can you track down a stolen ancient artefact, figure out who hacked the mayor’s computer network, or solve a haunted house mystery? How about figuring out who has stolen an inventor’s prized robot? Other cases to investigate include a dognapping, a runaway train, a fairground mystery, an undercover mission, and a tropical island puzzler.

Crack codes, solve mazes, follow clues, figure out logic puzzles, and so much more in this fun and engrossing collection of activities.

With 10 cases to crack, you’ll be proving your worth as a super sleuth in no time!

Also available:
9781916763173 The Top Secret Spy Puzzle Book

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837250608

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Buster Books

Illustration: B&W

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Eduardo Rubio Rincon

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Gareth Moore (Author)
Dr Gareth Moore (B.Sc (Hons) M.Phil Ph.D) is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including Anti-stress Puzzles, Ultimate Dot to Dot, Brain Games for Clever Kids®, Lateral Logic, Extreme Mazes and The Ordinance Survey Puzzle Book. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone and have sold in 35 different languages.

He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.

Gary Panton (Author)
Gary Panton is a writer, editor and doodler whose work has appeared in loads of different books, magazines and websites. You can find him on X at @garypanton or check out more of his work at garypanton.co.uk.

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