Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: Adventure of the Analytical Engine: Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages - Paperback

by Melanie Frances (Author), Charles Phillips (Author)

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 the urban craze for 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, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover.

Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson and aspiring engineer Henrietta Prince in the grand home of Bertram Alfreds, the last surviving child of Lord Byron. After being lured to the residence by an intriguing mechanical music box, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the mansion, foil a deceitful plot to destroy Henrietta's lifelong work - a replica of Babbage's Analytical Engine - and fathom the involvement of Moriarty, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

Author Biography

Charles Phillips is the author of more than 40 books, whose How to Think puzzle series sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into 18 languages. He was the editor of Biographic: Sherlock.

Melanie Frances specializes in developing interactive stories featuring games and puzzles. She is co-artistic director of interactive, digital arts organization Produced Moon, with whom she has created a range of immersive and interactive experiences, including escape rooms and app-based audio adventures.

Together they have written The Alcatraz Escape Book and three Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine, The Adventure of the Tower of London and The Adventure of the British Museum, published by Ammonite Press.