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Daomu Biji (simplified Chinese: 盗墓笔记; traditional Chinese: 盜墓筆記; pinyin: Dàomù bǐjì) variously translated as Grave Robbers' Chronicles, [nb 1] Grave Robbery Note [nb 2] and The Lost Tomb, [nb 3] is a novel series about the grave-robbing adventures of Wu Xie, a young man hailing from a family that had been tomb-raiders for centuries.
The book manuscript was finished in 1931, and the book was published in 1935, by Herbert Reichner in Vienna (Canetti's home at that time). It is Canetti's first publication. In 1943 Canetti received an offer to publish the book in English with Jonathan Cape, but it was decided to delay publication until after the war. It was eventually released ...
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Becker has published clarified game rules and published a 5th edition of the clue book, On the trail of the Golden Owl – Under the seal of secrecy in August 2022. [3] Launched in 1993, it ended on October 3, 2024, making it the second longest treasure hunt ever organized, after The Secret. This longevity gives it an "almost mythical aura ...
The Moai Island Puzzle (孤島パズル, Kotō Pazuru, "Solitary Island Puzzle") is a 1989 Japanese mystery novel by Alice Arisugawa that falls into the honkaku (本格) subgenre of Japanese detective fiction. [1] The novel is the second in a series featuring Jirō Egami as detective and the first Arisugawa book to be translated into English.
Unlike other puzzle books, each page is involved in solving the book's riddle. Specifically, each page represents a room or space in a hypothetical house, and each room leads to other "rooms" in this "house". Part of the puzzle involves reaching the center of the house, Room #45 (page 45 in the book), and back to Room #1 in only sixteen steps.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is a 2013 nonfiction book by Margalit Fox, about the process of deciphering the Linear B script, and particularly the contributions of classicist Alice Kober. Fox, who has degrees in linguistics, relied on access to Kober's collected letters and papers.
The final portion of the book contains the answers to almost all of the clues in the book (including the cipher), and how to solve them. These last pages are sealed together, as the reader is encouraged to try to solve the puzzles themselves first. This sealed section was absent from earlier prints of the book - but was available by mail.