The Name of the Game Was Murder - Mass Market Paperbound

by Joan Lowery Nixon (Author)

Samantha's mean-spirited great-uncle, novelist Augustus Trevor, blackmails a group of celebrities to his island mansion to participate in a "game." When Augustus is found dead, Samantha must join the game.

Front Jacket

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.

Author Biography

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Séance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.