Marvin Miller
1994
A one off puzzle book by Marvin Miller following a mad scientists attempt to poison cafeteria food with a mysterious substance.
Following Marvin Miller’s main puzzle series - You be the Jury, You be the Detective and Scene of the Crime - ‘The Mad Scientists Secret’, a one off book, took a slightly different approach with a narrative spanning the entire book, rather than individual chapters for each puzzle.
The book follows… ‘you’, who has “been chosen as the special agent to carry out a life-threatening secret mission: Find the Mad Scientist Dr XXX - and stop him from carrying out his terrifying plan”. Each chapter still ends with a visual puzzle, to progress through the adventure, though puzzles this time are usually less ‘evidence’ based and more classic visual/logic puzzles.
At this very moment, the Mad Scientist Dr. XXX is preparing to smuggle his secret formula for SLUDGE into school cafeteria’s all over the country… and the world. SLUDE tastes just like cafeteria food-but it will turn millions of unsuspecting students into glass-eyed ZOMBIES!!! YOU have been chosen as the special agent to carry out a life-threatening secret mission: Find the Mad Scientist Dr XXX - and stop him from carrying out his terrifying plan. You MUST succeed! The fate of the entire world’s student body is in your hands!!!