Egyptian secrets take center stage in this interactive mystery where boys and girls can solve codes and puzzles right along with the multicultural cast of characters.<br><br>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.<br><br>After learning about <i>steganography</i>, the study of concealed writing, the Code Busters discover that artists have been hiding secret messages in their artwork for centuries. <br><br>A clue hunt on a class trip to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum leads the Code Busters to an artifact that doesn't seem to quite fit with the rest of the collection. Could it be a forgery? The Code Busters code-cracking skills and new knowledge of hieroglyphic messages will help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but they better think fast before the criminal tries to frame them!<br><br>Winner of the 2012 Agatha Award for Case #2: <i>The Haunted Lighthouse</i><br>Nominated for the 2011 Agatha Award for Case #1: <i>The Secret of the Skeleton Key</i><br><br>"[A] fun series sure to appeal to graduates of Encyclopedia Brown and Ivy & Bean." -<i>Shelf Awareness</i><br><br>"This intriguing tale has vivid characters and such a tantalizing cliffhanger that readers won't be able to resist cracking the next Code Busters." -<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br><i>Releases simultaneously in electronic book format (9781606844601).</i>