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  • Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief by Gareth P. Jones book cover
  • Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief by Gareth P. Jones book cover
  • Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief by Gareth P. Jones book cover
  • Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief by Gareth P. Jones book cover
  • Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief by Gareth P. Jones book cover
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Solve Your Own Mystery: The Time Thief

by Gareth P. Jones

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A time-bending mystery with choices at every turn

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A time-bending mystery with choices at every turn

In Haventry, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, mermaids, a gorgon and a yeti share a town where the ordinary meets the extraordinary. When the Museum of Magical Objects and Precious Stones loses its time-traveling exhibit—the Time Sponge, which can stop and start time—the reader takes charge of the investigation. Suspects include the minotaur chief of police, a band of mermaid shoplifters, the museum’s gorgon curator and the detective’s yeti partner. Hundreds of paths let readers choose how to investigate, with the promise that each route leads to a solved mystery.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers who enjoy interactive, choice-led stories.
  • Children interested in detective mysteries and fantastical creatures.
  • Readers ages 9–12 looking for a book that invites them to take the investigator’s role.

Themes

Interactive storytellingMystery and investigationFantasy creaturesTime manipulation

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Book overview

A fantastically imaginative interactive detective story for young readers. With hundreds of paths to choose from and no dead ends, you'll solve the mystery every time!

Welcome to Haventry, a town where the ordinary and extraordinary collide! With ghosts, werewolves, and zombies living side by side, trouble is always brewing. And when a fiendish crime is committed, YOU are the detective in charge of the case.

The Museum of Magical Objects and Precious Stones is putting on a special time-traveling showcase, but when the main exhibit is stolen, it's up to YOU to find the thief. The Time Sponge has the ability to stop and start time for whoever squeezes it, so who has the strongest motive? The minotaur chief of police who has a lot going on at work, or the shoplifting band of mermaids? Should you trail the museum's petrifying gorgon curator? Or could your very own yeti partner be responsible? YOU decide!
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