By Gareth P. Jones (author) , Louise Forshaw (illustrator) Part of the Solve Your Own Mystery series
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One puzzling mystery. Several slippery suspects. Endless possibilities!
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.
All aboard the Transylvanian Express! YOU and your yeti boss Klaus are headed to Castle Ursprung, home of the infamous vampire Count Fledermaus. But before you get there, you have a mystery to solve: Night Mayor Franklefink has vanished from the train.
Someone onboard must have played a role in his disappearance but who has the strongest motive? Could it be Franklefink's archnemesis Bramwell Stoker? Or is Sandra Rigmarole, elf District Governor and colleague of the Night Mayor, a more likely suspect? Or perhaps Franklefink's monster wife has suddenly turned against him? YOU decide!
With hundreds of paths to choose from and no dead ends, you'll solve the mystery every time!
A fantastically imaginative detective story for readers looking for an interactive adventure.
Gareth first started writing when he was very young but it wasn’t until he was in his early twenties that he completed his first novel. Having had it universally rejected, he wrote a novel for children called Who Killed Charlie Twig , which received an equally unimpressed reception and remains rightly unpublished to this day. Some years passed during which Gareth met his future wife, Lisa and began a career in TV. Working on shows such as 'The Big Breakfast' and 'Richard & Judy', he became side-tracked from his book writing ambitions until one day he found himself having lunch at the offices of Bloomsbury. He mentioned the unpublished book to a nice lady called Sarah, who politely suggested that he should send in the first three chapters for her to look at. Gareth returned home and excitedly told his wife this news, who gently explained that the book he had written actually wasn’t very good, but reminded him that he had recently begun work on a much better idea. This turned out to be good advice.
In 2007 Bloomsbury published the first of four books in the series The Dragon Detective Agency and have since published The Thornthwaite Inheritance, Space Crime Conspiracy and The Considine Curse, for which he won the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012. Gareth has also written a shorter story, Perry’s 5 , published by Barrington Stoke and a series of books called Ninja Meerkats , published by Stripes.
The Case of the Missing Cats was nominated for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. The Thornthwaite Inheritance has won the Hounslow Junior Book Award, the Calderdale Book Award, Leicester Children’s Book Award, Sefton Super Reads, Doncaster Book Award, Rotherham Children’s Book Award and Fantastic Book Award, Lancaster.
Gareth now divides his time between writing books, producing TV programmes, spending time with his wife and children, and playing the slightly ludicrous number of stringed instruments in his front room. He lives in Forest Hill, south east London.
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One puzzling mystery. Several slippery suspects.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Solve Your Own Mystery: The Transylvanian Express and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-8 years old
Solve Your Own Mystery: The Transylvanian Express features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Adventure Stories, Crime & Mystery, Horror & Ghost Stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Interactive adventure stories, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Solve Your Own Mystery: The Transylvanian Express was written by Gareth P. Jones and published by Little Tiger Press an imprint of Little Tiger Press Limited
Solve Your Own Mystery: The Transylvanian Express has 213 pages
Yes it is part of Solve Your Own Mystery series
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