The Solitaire Mystery
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Phoenix Press
Published: September 2000
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: nob
Translation of: Kabalmysteriet
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780753809631
Subjects: Modern fiction
First sentence: THE GREAT JOURNEY TO the homeland of the philosophers began in Arendal, an old shipping town on the south coast of Norway.
Description: Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas and his father are driving from Norway to Greece in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years before. Along the way, the boy receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But what does the sailor's journey have to do with that of Hans Thomas? And what can both their journeys tell us about our own quest to understand life?