Usborne Puzzle Adventures Books in Order
Usborne Puzzle Adventures contains 35 books, published between 1985 and 2025. The first book is Escape from the Blood Castle (1985) and the newest is Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 35
- Published
- 1985–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,576 in 33 of 35 books
- Reading time
- 43–64 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,576 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 33 of 35 titles with a page count on record.
Usborne Puzzle Adventures are illustrated books for children in which the reader solves picture puzzles to carry an adventure story forward. The line holds 35 titles from Escape from the Blood Castle (1985) to Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey (2025), taking in The Curse of the Lost Idol, Murder on the Midnight Plane, Time Train To Ancient Rome and The Haunted Tower. The books run to 48 pages, and the 1990s were the line's busiest decade.
How many Usborne Puzzle Adventures books are there?
Usborne Puzzle Adventures has 35 books, released between 1985 and 2025.
Usborne Puzzle Adventures Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 35 Usborne Puzzle Adventures books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Escape from the Blood Castle1985 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41985482/4
- 2The Curse of the Lost Idol1985 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41985482/4
- 3Murder on the Midnight Plane1985 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41985482/4
- 4The Incredible Dinosaur Expedition1987 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41987482/4
- 5Danger at Demon's Cove1988 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41988482/4
- 6Time Train To Ancient Rome1988 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41988482/4
- 7Journey to the Lost Temple1989 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41989482/4
- 8Search for the Sunken City1989 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41989482/4
- 9The Haunted Tower1989 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41989482/4
- 10The Ghost in the Mirror1989 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41989482/4
- 11Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure1990 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41990482/4
- 12The Usborne Book of Ghost Puzzle Adventures1990 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419901442/4
- 13The Second Usborne Book of Puzzle Adventures1990 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419901442/4
- 14The Vanishing Village1990 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41990482/4
- 15Agent Arthur's Puzzle Adventures1990 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419901442/4
- 16The Intergalactic Bus Trip1990 · confirmed 2/41990–2/4
- 17The Fourth Usborne Book Of Puzzle Adventures1990 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419901442/4
- 18Agent Arthur on the Stormy Sea1992 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41992482/4
- 19The Pyramid Plot1993 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41993482/4
- 20Mutiny at Crossbones Bay1994 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41994482/4
- 21The Third Usborne Book of Puzzle Adventures1994 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419941442/4
- 22The Emerald Conspiracy1994 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41994482/4
- 23Agent Arthur's Desert Challenge1994 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/41994322/4
- 24Mystery on Main Street1994 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41994482/4
- 25Uncle Pete The Pirate1994 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/41994322/4
- 26Voyage to the Edge of the World1995 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41995482/4
- 27Castle of Intrigue1995 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41995482/4
- 28A Cidade Submersa1995 · confirmed 2/41995–2/4
- 29The Fifth Usborne Book of Puzzle Adventures1995 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419951442/4
- 30Fifth Book of Puzzle Adventures1997 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/419971442/4
- 31The Crimebusters Investigate1997 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41997482/4
- 32Agent Arthur's Island Adventure1997 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/41997482/4
- 33The Usborne Big Book of Puzzle Adventures2002 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/420021922/4
- 34Adventures in Puzzle World2004 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420042562/4
- 35Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey2025 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/42025482/4
Where to start with Usborne Puzzle Adventures
Start with Escape from the Blood Castle (1985), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Usborne Puzzle Adventures book?
Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey (2025) is the newest Usborne Puzzle Adventures book released so far.
Is there a new Usborne Puzzle Adventures book coming?
No next Usborne Puzzle Adventures book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Usborne Puzzle Adventures at a glance
- Still running
- Usborne Puzzle Adventures is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Usborne Puzzle Adventures books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,576 pages across the 33 of 35 books with a recorded length, a median of 48 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Usborne Puzzle Adventures books, 22 of 35, were published in the 1990s.
- Attribution
- Of the 35 titles, 11 are credited to Martin Oliver, 7 to Karen Dolby, 6 to Susannah Leigh and 5 to Mark Fowler. A further 22 writers are credited.
What the Usborne Puzzle Adventures books are about
23 of the 35 Usborne Puzzle Adventures books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 15 of 23. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Juvenile literature 15 of 23 books
- Puzzles 13 of 23 books
- Adventure games 9 of 23 books
- Adventure stories 9 of 23 books
- Literary recreations 7 of 23 books
- Picture puzzles 5 of 23 books
- Games 4 of 23 books
- Puzzle adventures 4 of 23 books
- Games, juvenile literature 3 of 23 books
- Puzzles, juvenile literature 3 of 23 books
- Jeux intellectuels 2 of 23 books
- Children's fiction 2 of 23 books