| Title | : | Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (Choose Your Own Adventure, #9) |
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| ISBN | : | 0942545184 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780942545180 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 122 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1981 |
Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (Choose Your Own Adventure, #9) Reviews
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One of the better CYOAs I've managed to rescue from a lonely bookstore shelf. it had lots and lots of choices, and the structure was complex, more complex compared to most, which fit the detective theme. Some of them though did not quite mesh with the prior page. But all in all so glad I have this one again.
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I remember loving this one, as it combined elements of Clue and Encyclopedia Brown.
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Don't expect a murder mystery from this book. The first time I played it my choices skipped quite a bit of the investigation stuff and then suddenly my character successfully identified the killer to everyone and solved the case, without me actually having a clue how or why anything had actually happened.
The book basically spoon-feeds the identity of the killer to you and instead you're just expected to find various endings (the usual way you do in a Choose Your Own Adventure book) without worrying about actually deducing anything to do with the case. The writing is good as always, but I'll admit to being disappointed that this one doesn't really allow you to solve a crime. At the very least I would've liked to have made the final accusation myself, rather than having the book do it for you.
At least they didn't shoe-horn an encounter with extra terrestrials in this one which tends to be a staple of these books, and I do have to admit I did enjoy the silliness of the completely incompetent detective. -
Una de las escrituras más desarrolladas. lógicas y serias de Packard, con mucho contenido. Eres un detective y debes guiarte por tus instintos, para resolver el caso de la muerte de Thrombey, lo que da pie a situaciones lógicas ( bueno, excepto que un joven sea detective, xdd... amén del genial film ' El secreto de la pirámide' y los primeros pinitos de un Holmes mozuelo) y conversaciones e investigación bien llevadas. Una rara ave avis en el historial de éste autor. Una lástima que muchas de las personas en aquel momento no le dieran una oportunidad.
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Remember this belonged to my Brother and was another fun to read Choose Your Own Adventure title. Love the setting and the chance to find out 'Who done it'?
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You gotta work to disappoint me on a CYOA book but this one is a pretty big let down. The organization is a huge mess, the book can basically be read front to back, and there are only a few endings. When you make Give Yourself Goosebumps look real good by comparison, you've slipped a bit. Sorry.
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Will you solve the crime?
Before i tell you about the book you probably already know that most books you just read and they already set up the rising action, climax, and falling action and if you read it again there is no difference in the book. But this book they don't decide your fate you get to decide the path that you want to take. I think as this book special because you become the character or detective in the book or in shorter reasons it's a... rpg book. Here is an example of what it would look like in the book, on page 9 a guy asks you if you like to come to visit his house, and on the bottom of the page there are two answers do you go with him or not, so if you choose not to go or to go you would look at the bottom of the page and look for your answer and right next to the answer is a page number. You go to the page number and see what happens remember there are 14 ways to finish this book. Now you probably think there is no thinking or solving in this book but there is, you can get killed by the murderer, captured, other people can solve the case, and you can solve the case. So I explained what makes this book special and how it works but i haven't told you about the case so let's get started. “You start as a young detective who gets invited to a billionaire house and this guy is called Harlowe Thrombey he suspects or feels like someone is trying to kill him later that night he dies” and this is where you get to choose your path remember the “sky's the limit”. -
Another mystery-genre Choose Your Own Adventure, and it suffered from the aspects of mystery that I tend to dislike even in "normal" mysteries. I actually think this could have been much better if the mystery of who killed the title character was different depending on what path you took (though that would have caused the different endings to have to be more separate and more sophisticated). As it was, if you get to an ending that reveals the mystery, there's not much sense in traveling the other routes (as I'm sure all of us who read these books loved to do, sticking fingers in the pages with choices you wanted to re-do). If you're just following the same clues in a different order, there's no surprise. Whenever I read mysteries as a kid, I usually "missed" clues because I didn't like reading books in an analytical way to "solve" them like a puzzle, so actually when some of the stuff leading to the solution didn't make sense to me, I figured I'd just missed stuff again. It wasn't until I tried a few different endings that I realized OH, actually this is the first time this bit was mentioned, and it wasn't in the first ending! So I think what happened in editing is that too many people read it too many times and couldn't keep the storylines straight well enough to make sure they all made sense.
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This story is a great murder mystery for young readers (not often you hear that said, huh?), with a smartly rendered plot that can be solved intelligently without being too easy. Normally in Choose Your Own Adventure books, the maximum number of choices per page is only two or three, but a few times in this book the amount of choices is extended to eight or more, resulting in a myriad of long and short stories that are all very well written. Edward Packard truly writes a smart story here. It is en extraordinary achievement.
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I think this was the first Choose Your Own Adventure book I ever read. Reading it after all these years is pure nostalgic joy. Definitely geared towards younger readers, but always a pleasure to pick up and read a quick story or three.
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Oh si, The Beatles siempre salvan el día. Es lo único que diré.
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Fun concept, but doesn’t work as well as some others because when interrogating suspects you sometimes refer to past actions you didn’t witness/investigate.
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This is the book mentioned in the movie "Knives Out". i read it as a kid, but thought I'd re-read it now, and it was a lot of fun.
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La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.
Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 100 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7. -
I read this for the Popsugar challenge, as I struggled to track down any CYOA books in my library and this was lying about in my parents' house. My childhood memories of CYOA was a Disney Snow White one which I read to death, but this is obviously aimed at an older audience than my beloved picture book. Not that this is particularly gory or pacey, as the name might suggest. As murders go, it was pretty tame. But it was cool to flick about the pages and chose my own options. I did get frustrated though, as often the strands of the book didn't weave together very well as obviously some pages were trying to straddle across more than one story option at a time. So sometimes you'd have a character talking to you quite familiarly, even though in your particular path through the book you hadn't actually met them before... Still, it was a fun way to spend an hour, and it brought back a lot of memories. I wish these were still as popular, as I'd love to share them with my kids.
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**read for #buzzwordathon round 3
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**read for the Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019 (#42)- A choose your own adventure book
What a fun trip down Nostalgia Lane!
I have a few Choose Your Own adventure books on my shelves. Yes I was a child of the 70s/80s. This one fit perfectly into the #buzzwordathon round 3 and was a quick fun read. Proud of myself for solving the mystery and not getting shot on my first trip through (as anyone who knows me knows.. i'm the queen of bad choices... haha) -
Decided to pick this up after watching Knives Out, as the movie is loosely inspired by this book.
Simple and short. I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books growing up. It was nice to revisit one of them.
A few friends and I are all going to track and compare our adventures. Should be entertaining. -
Un libro de elige tu propia aventura que no te deja elegir a dónde no ir. Este tipo de libros tuvieron mucho gancho en los 80, pero eran un absurdo. No sé si ahora se siguen editando este tipo de cosas.
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Reliving my youth through this book. I used to LOVE reading the Choose Your Own Adventure books! So, I recently came across two of them and purchased them for reading. Just as interesting as I remember!
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SCEGLI LA TUA AVVENTURA raccoglie alcune semplici avventure a bivi, giocabili anche da neofiti e senza dadi o schede personaggio.
Questo giallo scorre piacevolmente, per una serata in compagnia di un mistero da risolvere come nei più classici gialli della Christie -
It's impressive
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2.5
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Just awful. Page 101 has 12 choices! Ugh.
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it’s giving knives out
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The story holds together better than many choose-your-own-adventure stories in the same series, and has some clever incidental details that pay off in surprising ways.
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A rather ordinary murder mystery
12 June 2012
Another Choose Your Own Adventure book that I can vaguely remember. Interestingly I actually found a couple of these books sitting in the back shed, however the two books that I have (Cave of Time and the haunted house one) I have already reviewed and as such I am not too inclined to bring them back into the house to read them again (which shows you how lazy I can be at times because I doubt these books would have taken all that long to read anyway).
This is a murder mystery and you play a detective. You receive a call from Harlowe Thrombey, a plastics magnate, who believes his wife is going to kill him, however by the time you arrive he is already dead after drinking his nightly brandy that had been poisoned with arsenic. So, what initially began as a matter of protection quickly becomes a murder mystery, and because Thrombey is incredibly wealthy, there is a definite motive for wanting to see him dead.
The reviews of this book did not give it a glowing review and from what I read that is quite understandable. The playability of this book is fairly low because once you have solved the mystery the first time it never actually changes (but isn't that the case with all Choose Your Own Adventure stories). Further, it has been hinted that the author mucked up the drafting of this book as apparently as you get closer to the solution you suddenly discover that the book is referring to clues that you may not have uncovered and considering alibis that you know nothing about. If this is the case then it seems to be quite sloppy writing.
It is always amusing to consider the murder of a millionaire. It is suggested in some philosophies that it is better to be poor and unknown than to be wealthy and known. Apparently once you acquire lots of wealth suddenly you find yourself having friends everywhere, however once the wealth has gone, so have those friends. It is a consideration that I have had a lot, thinking that a friend who is with you when you are poor is a much better friend than a friend who only appears when you have money. Also, while money may be motivation for a murder (and in reality if you kill somebody to get at their money sooner, you pretty much cut yourself out of the will anyway) other reasons can be more corporate in nature, for instance a rival wanting to buy you out but you refuse to sell. It is also interesting that when a rich person dies, much more resources are put into solving the case than when a poor person dies (and even then the killer not not always apprehended). -
You are hired by Harlowe Thrombey, a millionaire, to find out who is trying to kill him, but as you are an excellent PI, he gets killed before any substantive investigation gets underway. Now, you must find out who murdered him. This is an excellent example of how to do a mystery gamebook in a sound manner. There is one solution to Thrombey's murder, and it is the same regardless of what you choose. Now, there is an ending where you think you have found a different solution, but the implication is that you will turn out to be mistaken. The book helps this along by using a lot of looping, and across branches, giving pieces of the solution. Interestingly, in one ending you call the police with the solution, but the book does not say what you provide as the solution, which means that depending on how you reach that ending, you might be wrong or have a partial solution. Furthermore, if you are not careful about how you conduct the investigation, you might get killed by one of the murderers. Of course, to lighten things up, there is Inspector Prufrock, the police chief, who has no idea what he is doing. In one of the high points, after you point out that his theorizing about the case has eliminated all of the known suspects from being the culprit, he replies that he is getting closer. All of this makes for an enjoyable read.
