{"id":5877,"date":"2014-09-01T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2014-09-01T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:44:32","slug":"pot-of-gold-awaits-sleuth-who-cracks-literary-code-the-treasure-hunt-craze-triggered-by-masquerade-in-the-1970s-is-to-be-recreated-by-a-novelist-burying-clues-to-3m-says-dalya-alberge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/01\/pot-of-gold-awaits-sleuth-who-cracks-literary-code-the-treasure-hunt-craze-triggered-by-masquerade-in-the-1970s-is-to-be-recreated-by-a-novelist-burying-clues-to-3m-says-dalya-alberge\/","title":{"rendered":"ENDGAME: “A new series of books is to offer readers the chance to get rich”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Sunday Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pot of gold awaits sleuth who cracks literary code<\/h1>\n

The treasure hunt craze triggered by Masquerade in the 1970s is to be recreated by a novelist burying clues to $3m, says Dalya Alberge<\/h3>\n

Dalya Alberge<\/span><\/p>\n

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IT IS usually the author who makes a fortune from a best-seller but a new series of books is to offer readers the chance to get rich, too.<\/p>\n

The Endgame trilogy of adventure stories by James Frey, whose previous works include The Lorien Legacies and I Am Number Four, will challenge readers to solve puzzles, riddles and codes with prizes totalling $3m (\u00a31.8m) available to those who are successful.<\/p>\n

The first person who solves the puzzles in Endgame: The Calling, the first book, will win $500,000 (\u00a3300,000) in gold coins. For the second book the prize rises to $1m and for the third $1.5m.<\/p>\n

The rights to the series are being sold to publishers in 27 countries and Frey is working on a script for the first of three films of the series, which will be financed by 20th Century Fox. The trilogy is published by HarperCollins….<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Sunday Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Sunday Times Pot of gold awaits sleuth who cracks literary code The treasure hunt craze triggered by Masquerade in the 1970s is to be recreated by a novelist burying clues to $3m, says Dalya Alberge Dalya Alberge IT IS usually the author who makes a fortune from a best-seller but a new series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}