"Do Not Read Beyond This Page" is how this book opens. The contents may be harmful to the reader. To protect the reader, the narrator decides to tell the story using fake names. The reader is cautioned to forget everything read. Of course, one must continue on despite the warning. A magician disappears and his box of smells ends up in Cass and Max-Ernst hands. When they go to investigate at his home, they run into the 'golden woman' and Dr. L. When their artistic classmate disappears, last seen by Cass in a limo with the golden woman and Dr. L. She decides she must rescue him. Then Max-Ernst follows to rescue her. They in danger from a cult obsessed with immortality. The story is filled with anagrams, coded messages, palindromes and more. Sure to catch the attention of junior puzzle solvers. This is the first in the Secret series.
Readers of Lemony Snickett may enjoy the mis-adventures of the pair
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