Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?

Carmen Sandiego: You Are the Detective

by John Peel, Paul Vaccarello (Illustrator), John Abbott Nez (Illustrator)

Clever aspiring detectives must track the elusive Carmen Sandiego as she and her thieving friends travel through time and try to steal such valuable treasures as a Ming vase, a Viking longboat, and an Aztec temple.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Daleks novels.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations based upon episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Reviews

[Christy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inside this book are four mystery-adventure games for you to play. Only you can capture Carmen's gang and return the stolen property. Only you can choose which treasure to recapture first, and only you can choose the path you must take. But watch out--while you're tracking Carmen's gang, they could be tracking you!