Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon
ISBN-13: 9780440219163, ISBN-10: 0440219167
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: Reprint
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.
A 15-year-old sleuth tries to solve the murder of her great-uncle, who was killed after writing a tell-all novel about his high-profile friends. An Edgar Award winner. Ages 12-up. (Dec.)q