GEMINI BOOKS

(H/B) The Pocket Sherlock Holmes
The Game is Afoot! A compendium of intriguing puzzles and quizzes to test your knowledge of the cases which so fascinated the world when reported by Watson in the pages of the Strand Magazine and elsewhere. Holmes was a secretive man, but he did let slip a few details of his private life, which you may remember. He distrusted women, but you will need to know something of the few he did admire. There are questions about his many adversaries and the cases that he solved - also the very few that defeated him. There are crossword puzzles based...
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(H/B) The Pocket Charles Dickens
A variety of ingenious puzzles to test your knowledge of the works of Charles Dickens, creator of many of the best-known characters in fiction and widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Illustrated throughout by the British caricaturist George Cruikshank, who was praised as the Hogarth of his day. The crossword puzzles in this book focus on the same topics that fascinated Charles Dickens: London, food and drink, childhood, Christmas, love and marriage, and servants. Ingenious anagrams draw on the amusingly apposite ...
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(H/B) The Pocket Brontes
Drawing on the vivid detail in the seven completed novels of the three Bronte sisters -- Charlotte, Emily and Anne -- the ingenious quizzes and puzzles in this fun collection will test your memory. Even the illustrations, by Edmund Dulac, require you to recognise the characters they depict. All the answers are to be found in the pages of Anne's Agnes Grey or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Emily's Wuthering Heights; or Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette or The Professor. The quizzes will test your recall of clothes, colours, relations,...
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(H/B) The Pocket Jane Austen
If you love the brilliant and witty novels of Jane Austen, you'll love the quizzes and puzzles in this charming little book. Have fun testing your knowledge of the novels of Jane Austen with the crosswords, name games and wordsearches in this book. Every answer can be found in the six novels - no fragments or juvenilia have been used. Use your ingenuity to find the country homes, city streets and servants hidden in the wordsearch puzzles. Find the quotations to solve the crossword puzzles - there is one for each of the six novels - and pla...
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