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Masquerade

by Kit Williams

Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by the English artist Kit Williams, and published in the UK in September 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was a treasure hunt containing clues to the location of a hare made of gold and precious stones, fabricated and buried somewhere in Great Britain by Williams. The publishers anticipated a print run of 60,000 copies for the UK market, but the book became an unexpected international success. It eventually sold over a million copies worldwide, attracting treasure hunters from all over the world to come to Britain and search for the hare, and turned the previously little-known Williams into a celebrity. In February 1982, Williams received a sketch of the location which he considered to be the correct answer, and Ken Thomas was declared the winner of the treasure hunt. However, the fact that Thomas had located the treasure without being able to solve the puzzle and his insistence on complete anonymity aroused suspicion. Two other people had solved the puzzle correctly, but had sent their answer to Williams too late. In December 1988, a newspaper investigation discovered Thomas's true identity and revealed that he had obtained knowledge...

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