Illustrator Colin King
Author Judy Hindley and Donald Rumbelow
Year 1978
Publisher Usborne
ISBN 0-86020-124-4

How to Use This Book (from the inside front cover)

A good detective needs special skills, lots of training—and imagination. In this book there is a mystery story to test your imagination. There are also puzzles to solve and projects to teach you skills, like finding a get away car.

Try some of the puzzles as you read the story. See if you can solve the mystery Shamus faces. Then go back and try the projects. Continue reading →

The KnowHow Book of Spycraft

Posted by fantasticbookblog on October 2, 2012

Illustrator Colin King
Designer John Jamieson
Authors Falcon Travis and Judy Hindley
Year 1975
Publisher Usborne
ISBN 0-86020-082-5

About This Book (from the inside front cover)

This book is all about keeping secrets. It shows you how to set up secret meeting places and a secret post office and how to disguise your messages. It shows you lots of secret codes and signals.

On the first page you will meet the Black Hat Spy. Watch out for the tricks he plays in Spy Trick – these are things real spies have done. You can see what equipment a spy uses and how he hides it quickly in an emergency.

There are messages in code all through the book. See if you can work them out.

The KnowHow Book of Spycraft available on Amazon