Sherlock Holmes Escape Books Trailer

Take on the role of the world’s most famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes & solve the puzzles using the powers of deduction and logic to escape the pages of the book.

Book 1: The Adventure of the London Waterworks by Ormond Sacker
Book 2: The Adventure of the British Museum by Charles Phillips & Melanie Frances
Book 3: The Adventure of the Analytical Engine by Charles Phillips & Melanie Frances

The Sherlock Holmes Escape Books are the first two books in a unique new series of puzzle books, in which the reader is trapped in the pages and must find their way out by solving the puzzles that hold the key to their freedom. Visual clues are hidden among the intriguing and stylish illustrations; fiendish riddles, logic puzzles, and timed challenges unlock hidden doors and reveal the direction of travel; and mathematical problems provide the codes required to follow the correct path. There are maps and mazes to explore; references to the original Sherlock Holmes adventures to unravel; and ingenious code-wheels that holds the key to unlocking the next page. Solve the puzzles correctly to escape. Get them wrong, and you will find yourself further and further along the path to your own demise.

This ingenious new series is a spin on the current urban craze for ‘Escape Rooms’, in which participants are locked in rooms, and must solve the puzzles they find there to make good their escape. Here, the book becomes the locked room, the pages become the path, and the reader must solve the brain-teasing puzzles to escape the book.

YOU are Sherlock Holmes…

In the first book, The Adventure of the London Waterworks, at your home of 221b Baker Street you receive a mysterious note fashioned from newsprint and are lured to the London Waterworks at Kew Bridge, where your arch-nemesis Moriarty has spun a web of snares and deceptions for you to distract you from his true goal…

In the second book, The Adventure of the British Museum, you find yourself trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King Edward VII due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumours of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

In the third book, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine, you receive a mysterious letter from beyond the grave. Intrigued by an invitation from mathematician Charles Babbage to view his newly completed pioneering contraption, you as Holmes become imprisoned in a magnificent London villa where tricks, traps and illusions aim to divert him from uncovering the true purpose of the reimagined Analytical Engine.

The Game is Afoot!

For more information about these books please visit their pages on the Ammonite Press website:
The Adventure of the London Waterworks by Ormond Sacker, RRP £9.99 / $14.95
The Adventure of the British Museum by Charles Phillips & Melanie Frances, RRP £9.99 / $14.95
The Adventure of the Analytical Engine by Charles Phillips & Melanie Frances, RRP £9.99 / $14.95