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The Clock Without a Face: A Gus Twintig Mystery
We’ve buried 12 emerald-studded numbers�each handmade and one of a kind�in 12 holes across the United States. These treasures will belong to whoever digs them up first. The question: Where to dig? The only path to the answer: Solve the riddles of The Clock Without a Face!
THE BOOK
The call comes in from the shadowy Ternky Tower: 13 robberies, one on each floor, all the way up to the penthouse, where obnoxious importer Bevel Ternky has been relieved of the numbers garlanding the legendary Emerald Khroniker, his priceless, ancient clock. Readers must conduct their own investigations, scouring detailed illustrations for hidden clues and knotty puzzles. All your answers can be found within this book: whodunit and how… and where the real numbers are buried now.
THE NUMBERS
Twelve�and only twelve�emerald-bedecked integers sleep somewhere in this nation’s soil. If you can find them, they’re yours to keep�and only this book can tell you where they are. So read the story carefully, and examine the illustrations closely. The race is on!
THE BOOK
The call comes in from the shadowy Ternky Tower: 13 robberies, one on each floor, all the way up to the penthouse, where obnoxious importer Bevel Ternky has been relieved of the numbers garlanding the legendary Emerald Khroniker, his priceless, ancient clock. Readers must conduct their own investigations, scouring detailed illustrations for hidden clues and knotty puzzles. All your answers can be found within this book: whodunit and how… and where the real numbers are buried now.
THE NUMBERS
Twelve�and only twelve�emerald-bedecked integers sleep somewhere in this nation’s soil. If you can find them, they’re yours to keep�and only this book can tell you where they are. So read the story carefully, and examine the illustrations closely. The race is on!
Book Details: Format: Board Book Publication Date: 4/27/2010 Pages: 30 Reading Level: Age 8 and Up
30 pages, Board book
First published April 27, 2010
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About the author
Eli Horowitz
18 books37 followersEli Horowitz is the co-creator of The Silent History, a digital novel; The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery; and Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of table tennis. He was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney’s; his design work has been honored by I.D., Print and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Previously, he wrote science trivia questions based on popular films of the 1990s and was briefly employed as an apprentice carpenter. He was born in Virginia and now lives in Northern California.
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October 20, 2021
Too hard!
December 26, 2024
The idea is cool? But it was way too hard for me, or I just wanted a simpler puzzle I guess. I'm going to look up how the game played out - sounds like some people found the actual numbers.
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