The Name of the Game Was Murder

Authors: Nixon, Joan Lowery
Lexile: 820,
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
BISAC/Subject: YAF042000, YAF062000, YAF058270
ISBN: 9780307823496, Related ISBNs: 0307823490, 0385308647, 0440219167, 9780307823496, 9780385308649
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: Young adult
Synopsis: 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.
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