Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.E. love playing around with codes. In fact, they love codes so much they have their own club, with a secret hideout and passwords that change every day. After learning about steganography, the study of concealed writing, the Code Busters discover that artists have been hiding secret messages in their artwork for centuries. A clue hunt on a class trip to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum leads the Code Busters to an artefact that doesn't seem to quite fit with the rest of the collection. Could it be a forgery?

 

This book was recognised by the Agatha Award. The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the cozy mystery subgenre (i. e. closed setting, no sex or violence, amateur detective) and are awarded annually at the Malice Domestic Conference.

This book is part of a book series called The Code Busters Club .

There are 184 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Egmont USA .

Penny Warner has written over 30 books, including 5 books in the Connor Westphal mystery series, which features a deaf reporter in California gold country. Her book Dead Body Language was nominated for an Agatha Award and won a Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Warner is a former Brownie and Girl Scout, as well as a troop leader.