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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Buried in a Book to Book Page. Preview — Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington. After losing her job as a journalist at the age of forty-five, Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in North Carolina. Being paid to read seems perfect to Lila, although it's difficult with the cast of quirky co-workers and piles of query letters. But when a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room-and Lila After losing her job as a journalist at the age of forty-five, Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in North Carolina. But when a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room-and Lila discovers a series Buried in a Book threatening letters-she's determined to find out who wrote him off. Get A Copy. Mass Market Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Lila Wilkins. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Buried in a Bookplease sign up. Would this be a good book for a book club to read? See 1 question about Buried in a Book…. Lists Buried in a Book This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Buried in a Book filters. Sort order. Start your review of Buried in a Book in a Book Novel Buried in a Book, 1. Mar 04, Elizabeth rated it liked it Shelves: i-own-readlibrary. I had seen the genre "cozy mystery" all over my goodreads timeline. I would go to the used bookstore and there was a section labeled "cozy mystery". I didn't get what it was. So I looked it up and figured out Buried in a Book was basically a mystery that usually takes place in a small hometown, the Buried in a Book is usually almost always solved at the end of the book. There is usually a series of the same sleuth throughout the series solving mysteries, and the sleuth is usually someone that you wouldn't expect to be I had seen the genre "cozy mystery" all over my goodreads timeline. There is usually a series of the same sleuth throughout the series solving mysteries, and the sleuth is usually someone that you wouldn't expect to be one I've never read very many mysteries at all, so I thought this sounded cute. And it's randomly a huge genre! There are so many cozy mystery books! So I picked this one up from the library. It had a cute cover, and the premise sounded interesting enough. I loved every part of this book! It didn't move me, which is why I love books the most. But it kept me entertained throughout, and I loved all the characters. I would never have guessed the outcome of the mystery. Lucy Arlington did such a good job of tricking you to believe it was someone when it Buried in a Book really someone else. I loved how Lucy mentioned other authors throughout and other books that the characters were reading. It made them seem more relatable, and the characters I really wanted to be friends with. Buried in a Book takes place in a town called Inspiration Valley, and the places were named so well. Buried in a Book sandwich shop was called Catcher in the Rye, and the coffee shop was called Expresso Yourself. The town was so picture perfect, and I loved reading it. I am definitely gonna keep up with this series, and I loved it a lot. I'm hoping I start reading Buried in a Book cozy mysteries, because Buried in a Book can see why so many people have been reading them! View all 6 comments. Mar 29, Carolyn Buried in a Book rated it it was ok. Two and a half stars. I picked up this book on a whim because it was a cozy mystery with a literary theme and it was set in North Carolina. Cute, but totally unrealistic. And that's not only because Lila Wilkins, the Buried in a Book character, finds a new job the day she gets fired from her Buried in a Book one, OR that she manages to put her house on the market and sell it in little more than a week - without even painting it, OR that Buried in a Book cleans the house to sell it and packs to move out in one day. What world does Li Two and a half stars. What world does Lila live in? Not one I recognize. The cute little town of Inspiration Valley where Lila gets a job at a literary agency is pure Disney. Inspiration Valley is supposedly set in central North Carolina, somewhere near Chapel Hill, something I know a little bit about. And it's near the town of Dunston, where Lila lives until she sells and moves in with her mom in Inspiration Valley. Dunston sounds a little like Durham and its baseball team is called the Dunston Bulls. Sound familiar? In central North Carolina? There are some hills in Hillsborough, but I wouldn't call them mountains. At the beginning of the book, Lila takes the Inspiration Express, a train outfitted somewhat like the Orient Express, on the short trip from Dunston to Inspiration Valley. Hmm, total fabrication; she's certainly not talking about Amtrak. Inspiration Valley, nestled below Red Fox Mountain, has an adorable little town center with a lovely square with a huge live oak tree in Buried in a Book middle. I hate to tell you, honey, but there are no live oaks in central North Carolina, much less anywhere near a mountain. OK, so it's supposed to be fiction and there's poetic license and all that. Well, just don't make it near anything that really exists, because it really puts off readers like me. There are other telltale errors - a character is dressed in elegant slacks on one page and on the next she smooths the wrinkles of her skirt. Poor editing as well as poor research. If the authors yes, Lucy Arlington is two women writers wanted to set a book in North Carolina, they should have known something about its geography. The mystery is not very complicated and easy enough to figure out. For some strange reason that only works as a plot device, the murder victim has planted clues about his past in bird houses, loose bricks and tree notches around town. No explanation of this weird, but convenient, behavior is forthcoming. And why didn't the victim, who came by the literary agency every day pushing his idea, just try another agency? The plot, which hinged on this, just didn't make sense, rather like the geography. The writing is often cliched. On the plus side, Lila is an engaging heroine, in her 40's with a seventeen-year-old son, though I was a little annoyed with her tendency to get all gushy Buried in a Book any good-looking male came around. I guess this is supposed to appeal to the romance genre reader. I liked the literary references, though, and the samples of query letters were pretty funny. And it gets extra points for making the teenage son a Tar Heels fan. Buried in a Book, I won't be visiting Inspiration Valley again. View all 3 comments. Jun 30, Kathy Davie rated it it was ok Shelves: homeymystery. My Take This book is a dichotomy of writing. Arlington chooses the most beautiful words to mangle with her writing. Masquerade (book) - Wikipedia

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Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in Augustthat sparked a treasure hunt by including concealed clues Buried in a Book the location of a jewelled golden hare that had been created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams. The book became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts. In March Williams received a letter and sketch from a man called Dugald Thomson, which he acknowledged as the first correct solution to the puzzle, meaning that Thomson had won the contest. It was later Buried in a Book that Thomson had Buried in a Book solved the puzzle and had guessed the hare's location using insider knowledge obtained from a former acquaintance of Williams. The revelation caused a minor scandal. Two British physics teachers were later acknowledged to be the first to have correctly solved the puzzle. 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Bamber Gascoignehaving been asked by Williams to witness the burial of the hare and to document the contest from beginning to end, wrote the book Quest for the Golden Hare. He summarised his experiences thus:. Tens of thousands of letters from Masqueraders have convinced me that the human mind has an equal capacity for pattern-matching and self-deception. While some addicts were busy cooking the riddle, others were more single-mindedly continuing their own pursuit of the hare quite regardless of the news that it had been found. Their own theories had come to seem Buried in a Book convincing that no exterior evidence could refute them. These most determined of Masqueraders may grudgingly have accepted that a hare of some sort was dug up at Ampthill, but they believed there would be another hare, or a better solution, awaiting them at their favourite spot. 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The letters indicated by these lines can be made to form words, either by treating them as anagrams or by applying the sequence of animals and digits suggested by the Isaac Newton painting pictured. Properly interpreted, the message tells the reader that the treasure is buried near the cross-shaped monument to Catherine of Aragon in Ampthill Parkat the precise spot touched by the tip of the monument's shadow at noon on the day of either the March Buried in a Book September equinox. Many additional hints and "confirmers" are scattered throughout the book. For example, in the painting depicting the Sun and the Moon dancing around the Earth, the hands of the two figures are clasped together, pointing at the date of the spring equinox. On December 21, the Sunday Times published an additional clue created by Kit Williams to the puzzle. This drawing needed to be cut out, folded in half and then with a light shone through a message could be read in a mirror. The message read "To do my work, I appointed four men from twenty, the tallest and the fattest, and the righteous follow the sinister. The " The clue featured a self portrait of Kit Williams surrounded by fourteen animals, the first letter of each making "Merry Christmas". On 11 DecemberThe Sunday Times printed a story accusing the winner of the Masquerade contest of being a fraud. Thomson's business partner, John Guard, was the boyfriend of Veronica Robertson, who had Buried in a Book been a girlfriend of Kit Williams. Guard allegedly convinced Robertson to help him win the contest because they were both animal rights activists and he promised to donate any profits to the animal rights cause. The Sunday Times alleged that while living with Williams, Robertson had learned the approximate physical location of the hare, while remaining ignorant of the proper solution to the book's main puzzle. After supposedly finding out from Robertson that the hare was in AmpthillGuard and two associates were said to have started searching for it Buried in a Book metal detectors. After searching for some time with no success, they drew a crude sketch of the location, which Thompson then submitted to Williams under the name "Ken Thomas", and it was this that Williams acknowledged as the first correct answer. Reacting to the revelations, Buried in a Book said: "This tarnishes Masquerade and I'm shocked by what has emerged. I feel a deep sense of responsibility Buried in a Book all those many people who were genuinely looking for it. Although I didn't know it, it was a skeleton in my cupboard and I'm relieved it has come out. Dugald Thompson founded a software company called Haresoft, and offered the jewel as a Buried in a Book to a new contest which took the form of a computer game, Hareraiser. The company and its game which many believe to be unsolvable with only meaningless text and graphicswere unsuccessful, yielding no winner. When the company went into liquidation inthe hare Buried in a Book sold at Sotheby's London on behalf of the liquidators, Peat Marwickin December The treasure's whereabouts remained unknown for over 20 years, until it came to light in During the interview Williams expressed the desire to see the hare again. Hearing this, the granddaughter of its then current owner—an anonymous purchaser "based in the Far East"—arranged for Williams to be reunited briefly with his work. Masquerade became the forerunner of an entire genre of cryptic puzzles known as armchair treasure hunts. Kit Williams himself also created a second treasure-hunt book, The Bee on the Comb Similar hunts have continued being published in various formats. Alkemstone Level,a computer game developed during the height of the Masquerade hype, is still unsolved. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about Buried in a Book treasure hunt book. For other uses, see Masquerade. Retrieved 10 April Daily Telegraph. Buried in a Book Times. Quest for the Golden Hare. Jonathan Cape. Retrieved 22 March In Gascoigne, Bamber ed. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 May Retrieved 22 November The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April Johnson, Pam ed. The Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. Categories : books Puzzle hunts Puzzle books. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Buried in a Book file. Download as PDF Printable version. Front cover of first edition. Armchair treasure hunt.