The Name of the Game Was Murder

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.

Joan Lowery Nixon has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries and is the author of more than a hundred books for young readers, including Nobody's There; Who Are You?; The Haunting; Murdered, My Sweet; Don't Scream; Spirit Seeker; Shadowmaker; Secret, Silent Screams; and the middle-grade novel Search for the Shadowman. Joan Lowery Nixon was the 1997 president of the Mystery Writers of America and is 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 Seance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction includes the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures and The Orphan Train Children.