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    Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?

    Part of Choose Your Own Adventure Retro Editions

    Author Edward Packard
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    $8.99 US
    Choose Your Own Adventure
    4.25"W x 6.88"H x 0.37"D  
    On sale Feb 03, 2026 | 144 Pages | 9781937133139
    Grades 3-7
    FOC Jan 5, 2026 | Catalog December 2025
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    Finally back in print after a 25-year wait! Find Thombey’s murderer in this iconic interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 14 possible endings!

    Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

    Someone murdered Harlowe Thrombey. Only YOU can figure out who.

    The eccentric millionaire feared his life was in danger, and he hired you – a young detective – to find out who was after him. But before your investigation could even start, someone laced his bedtime brandy with arsenic. Now you have a murder case on your hands! As you look for clues and question the suspects and witnesses, will you discover the truth of who poisoned your client? Or will you be the next victim?
    Ed Packard was born in 1931 in Huntington, New York, and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote the first book in Bantam's classic Choose Your Own Adventure series, The Cave of Time, and wrote many other titles in the series. His book Imagining the Universe (1994), received a Scientific American book award. His recent writings are available at edwardpackard.com.
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    Finally back in print after a 25-year wait! Find Thombey’s murderer in this iconic interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 14 possible endings!

    Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

    Someone murdered Harlowe Thrombey. Only YOU can figure out who.

    The eccentric millionaire feared his life was in danger, and he hired you – a young detective – to find out who was after him. But before your investigation could even start, someone laced his bedtime brandy with arsenic. Now you have a murder case on your hands! As you look for clues and question the suspects and witnesses, will you discover the truth of who poisoned your client? Or will you be the next victim?

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    Ed Packard was born in 1931 in Huntington, New York, and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote the first book in Bantam's classic Choose Your Own Adventure series, The Cave of Time, and wrote many other titles in the series. His book Imagining the Universe (1994), received a Scientific American book award. His recent writings are available at edwardpackard.com.
    Edward Packard View titles by Edward Packard

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