![]() ![]() He would go on to record his extraordinary experience in a book: Quest for the Golden Hare… because, it’s fair to say, things didn’t go quite as planned. Trusted TV journalist, Bamber Gascoigne, the Jeremy Paxman of his day, was enlisted to witness the burial of the casket. ![]() The concept was deceptively simple: decipher the clues, work out where the prize was buried and dig it up yourself. Readers were invited to scour 16 elaborate drawings that told a mystical, folksy tale, for clues to where Williams had hidden actual treasure: The Golden Hare – an 18-carat, jewelled amulet worth more than £30,000. The man behind the craze, quirky English artist Kit Williams, devised a beautiful coffee-table book whose story spilled out into a real-life treasure hunt. Chief among my inspirations for this was Masquerade, an illustrated storybook published in August 1979 that was to become the source of an international scandal. ![]() ![]() In The Twyford Code a man is convinced his teacher discovered a secret code in a series of children’s books. Janice Hallett, author of The Twyford Code, explains how Kit Williams’ Masquerade inspired her to AVOID writing a real-life treasure hunt into her second novel The Twyford Code. ![]()
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