Series: Handbooks

Train yourself to be a great detective with this humorous, handy pocket guide packed with hints, tips and advice on how to be an intrepid, quick-thinking super-sleuth. Test your observational skills, learn how to crack codes, discover how to identify people by their fingerprints or handwriting, find out how to examine witnesses and look for clues. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet.

"Any would-be Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot will find this a fascinating and engaging book." - Parents in Touch

Official Detective's Handbook

by Colin King

Published 1 October 2014

Calling all detectives in training! Outsmart even the keenest of criminal masterminds with this essential book for detecting and solving mysteries. Budding sleuths can learn how to pick criminals out of a crowd, distinguish fakes and forgeries and identify and analyse clues at a crime scene. Activities include spotting forged possessions at a crime scene, identifying fingerprints and spotting criminals in an identity parade. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites with more detective activities.

Official Spy's Handbook

by Colin King

Published 1 October 2014

Everything a good spy needs to know about secret codes, disguises, shadowing and observation skills. This essential guide to spying is packed with useful skills and tips, such as shaking off a trail, scrambling secret messages and creating amazing disguises. Spies in training can use the activity pages to create camouflage headbands, decode messages and spot enemy spies in crowds of people. A brand new edition of a much-loved Usborne classic, sure to entertain and delight a brand new generation of spies.