Upper Wolverhampton Bibliotheque

There was a bonus puzzle in some editions of the Maze of Games in the form of a library card for the Upper Wolverhampton Bibliotheque.

 Hints & Solutions

Highlight the white text inside the block for hints ranging from vague to specific...

Hint 1:

Each of the people checking out this book are well-known.

Hint 2:

Each of the perusers of the tome are well-known authors in literature.

Hint 3:

The authors are:

1. Swift: Jonathan Swift
2. Parsons: Eliza Parsons
3. Scott: Sir Walter Scott
4. Bulwer: Edward Bulwer Lytton
5. Godwin: Mary Shelley
6. Dickens: Charles Dickens
7. Webb: Jane C. Loudon
8. Dodgson: Lewis Carroll
9. Stevenson: Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Wilde: Oscar Wilde
11. Mackay: Marie Correlli
12. Doyle: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. Haggard: H. Rider Haggard
14. Wells: H.G. Wells
15. Kipling: Rudyard Kipling

Hint 4:

Once you have identified the authors, you need to identify the correct novel.

Hint 5:

Both the day and the month of the date are important.

Hint 6:

The day tells you how long the title of the book you're looking for is.

Hint 7:

The book titles are:

1. Gulliver's Travels
2. The Castle of Wolfenbach
3. Ivanhoe
4. Zanoni
5. Frankenstein
6. A Christmas Carol
7. The Mummy!
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9. Treasure Island
10. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
11. A Romance of Two Worlds
12. The Hound of the Baskervilles
13. King Solomon's Mines
14. The Time Machine
15. Captains Courageous

Hint 8:

The month of the date is an index into the title.

Hint 9:

Indexing into the title with the number value of the month, you find TWO IN SHELF TOMES.

Hint 10:

Look for the repeated letters in the books shown in the image.

Solution:

I AM DONE