UNREADABLES · HISTORICAL PUZZLE NOVEL
The Silversmith’s Ledger
A Puzzle Novel of the American Revolution’s Lost Treasury
Every price is a password.
Every page is a door.
- Inside
- 36 puzzles · 9 master puzzles · one final map
- Edition
- 192 pages · 8 × 10 in · full color
- For
- Ages 14+ · 12–16 hours
- Tools
- A mirror, a ruler, and your phone
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THE TRAIL BEGINS IN PHILADELPHIA
You don’t just read it.
You solve it.
Restoring a portrait nearly 250 years old, conservator Nora Vale finds a ledger sewn into its lining. Its prices are impossible. Its customers are a code. And its author — the silversmith who engraved the Revolution’s money — hid something a young nation could not afford to lose.
Follow nine marks across nine places, from Boston’s bell towers to a ceiling of stars in Washington. A secret order watches every move. A billionaire pays for every step. Someone close to Nora sells every clue.
No cutting. No writing in the book. Just you, a mirror, a ruler — and 250 years of silence.
FREE SAMPLE · No. 01 · PAGE 16
The Dedication
To my Apprentices
My hand cuts backward so the world reads true,
In silver, copper, every line reversed;
Read not my letters as they come to you —
Reverse the plate, and what was last is first.
One glass will show you what my burin knew:
Render the mirror’s due, and be rehearsed.
What tool does Thorne ask his apprentices to use?
Your Case File
Sign in to Unreadables, add your copy, and open the book from My library. Four solved puzzles unlock a chapter’s master puzzle. Each master puzzle reveals a silver Mark. All nine Marks open the final answer field — and the true ending waits online.
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