In The Caper of the Crown Jewels, Jack is summoned to solve a matter of grave national importance: the theft of the Crown Jewels of the British Empire from the Tower of London. Arriving on the scene, he is greeted by a traditional Tower guard- a Yeoman Warder (or Beefeater)- who explains what's m...
He looked at the uppercase letters again and thought about how to decipher the code. In his training, the GPF had taught him how to unscramble an “anagram.” Anagrams were jumbled letters that when put back into the right order spelled a word. He wrote out the letters again: ABTMNNHTAUSOEETKH Figu...
What was the man with the gold teeth doing in Egypt? The last time Jack had seen him, he was being hauled away by the Cambodian police. Maybe he’d served his sentence and left Cambodia. Perhaps he had bribed the police to let him out early. Either way, it looked like the man with the gold teeth w...
Weren’t they worried that someone like Jack would recognize them? Perhaps, Jack figured, for a showman like Ivan a crime wasn’t worth committing if it wasn’t done in front of an “audience.” Jack looked at his watch. It was 4:00 PM. He needed to think of a plan before Ivan the Incredible’s last sh...
Jack slapped his right hand onto the artificial rock face above him. He slid it to the right and wrapped his fingers around a plastic grip. Then he stretched his leg over onto a ledge and lifted his body upwards. Suddenly he heard a high-pitched voice from his left: ‘Beat you to the top, Stalwart...