The Name of the Game Was Murder

by Joan Lowery Nixon

  Her gaze shifted to the police cruiser, and she whispered to herself, “No more games.”

  With his mind on his manipulations, his mean little digs and complicated clues, it had never occurred to Augustus Trevor that his terrifying game might draw one player too many. He never had a clue that the name of the game was murder.

  JOAN LOWERY NIXON has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries. She is the author of more than 130 books for young readers and is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Séance, The Name of the Game Is Murder, and The Other Side of Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal.