The Trail of Death

The Three Investigators: Find Your Fate #5

by Rose Estes

124 pages, Hardcover

Published September 12, 1985

About the author

Rose Estes is the author of many fantasy and science fiction books, including full length novels and multiple choice gamebooks. After contributing extensively to TSR, Inc.'s Dungeons and Dragons Endless Quest series (of which she wrote the first six, as well as others later down the line), she wrote her first full length novel, Children of the Dragon (1985). She continued to write for TSR by writing six volumes in a series of Greyhawk novels. She contributed to other series, but continued to write books and start series of her own that, like Children of the Dragon, take place in a fantasy or science fiction world created by her own imagination. She also wrote the Golden Book Music Video Sing, Giggle and Grin.

Reviews

[Erythor Silvertip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really more of a 3.5 but in writing this review I decided to round down. The setting is unique (1960s Kenya/Ethiopia/Tanzania) and the storyline as well (stop the poachers!); there are a couple of tired tropes in there (white savior, the guy with the scars is the bad guy, evil Chinese mastermind, etc.) that really drag it down, though. The pictures are quite pretty. I was beyond chuffed that the very first choice I made led me to an immediate ending which was about as positive as you could ask for. A couple of the choices didn't have any good outcomes, which is realistic I suppose, but dammit, I wanted to save the animals from the poachers!