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The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum

Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages
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In The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum, readers are invited to solve puzzles alongside the legendary detective. Set within the iconic British Museum, Holmes encounters intriguing challenges that require sharp wit and deduction. It's a humorous and interactive experience that merges mystery solving with escape-room style conundrums.
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You might enjoy this book if you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes and love engaging with puzzles and humour. It's perfect for those who appreciate interactive stories where you are part of the mystery-solving process, all with a touch of wit and clever twists reminiscent of classic detective tales.

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This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages.

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This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages.

Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles, and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover.

Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection.

With Edward VII due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumours of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

Series: The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book

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  • Sherlock Holmes Escape, A - The Adventure of the Analytical Engine
    The third title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine, is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book, and adventure story. Inspired by real-life escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes,...
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  • The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum
    This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a...
    Paperback
    $2100
    Elsewhere:
    $2299
    Available
    Ships in 1 week

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The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum offers an engaging afternoon of mental challenges, ideal for those who appreciated The Adventure of the London Waterworks. With puzzles, codes, and ciphers, it promises to stimulate your mind while taking you through a creatively reconstructed version of the British Museum. This second instalment in the series delivers an intriguing escape room experience in book form, enhanced by real elements from the famous museum.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781454206

Publisher: GMC Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 October 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ammonite Press

Illustration: 40 full-colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 136

About the Author

Frances & Phillips are a puzzle-writing team with a reputation worthy of 221B Baker Street. Melanie Frances specialises in developing interactive stories featuring games and puzzles. She is Co-Artistic Director of interactive, digital arts organisation Produced Moon, with whom she has created a range of immersive and interactive experiences, including escape rooms and app-based audio adventures. Charles Phillips is the author of more than 40 books, and his How to Think puzzle series sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into 18 languages. He is the editor of Biographic: Sherlock (Ammonite Press, 2018). They both live in London.

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