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De Vil's Riddle

by Brian Fray with Marvin Bedward and Dane Bedward

96 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #05-1910; ISBN 1-4120-6999-8; US$14.35, C$16.50, EUR11.80, £8.25

Think you've got it tough? Mother Nature has to manage Earth, fight evil and go on a quest, with no one but her bumbling helpers... and you, the reader.

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About the Book

The Big Chair of Universe Unlimited Inc. (U.U.I.) has a dream to create a showplace planet in the universe. The new planet will be a blue and green jewel, full seas and forests. It will also have LIFE. It will be called Earth.

At a board meeting of U.U.I., The Big Chair chooses Flora Fauna to be Earth Manager, aka Mother Nature. To help her run things down on Earth, The Big Chair gives Flora a pair of bumbling assistants, Humble and Grumble.

Thaddeus Ebenezer Hieronymous De Vil, a board member, desperately wants the job of Earth Manager. He has evil plans for Earth and is enraged when Mother Nature is hired instead of him.

Before leaving on assignment, Mother Nature visits Research and Development where she is shown the various life forms that she will be overseeing. While there, she inadvertently discovers another form of life that is being developed: Eggs of the Galactic Goodness (EGGs). The EGGs contains pure power that will help the dominant life form on Earth tap into a higher consciousness, a galactic goodness.

The EGGs have one glitch. Under no circumstances can the EGGs fall into the wrong hands.

Mother Nature, Grumble and Humble toil through the millennia, faithfully managing Earth. With the help of his Minions, De Vil tries to undo all of the good that Mother Nature does on Earth.

The new mammal, man, is proving particularly difficult to manage and in desperation Mother calls upon Research and Development to bring the EGGs to Earth. After the EGGS arrive, the unreliable Grumble lets them get into the hands of De Vil.

From here the quest for the EGGs will unfold. The reader is invited to join the quest and solve the mystery from the clues that are hidden in the book.

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About the Author

Brian Fray is a free-lance cartoonist and graphic designer who works for a wide variety of clients. Success includes the syndicated comic strip Le Grand Chef Pierre, which was carried in over 60 newspapers in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Hong Kong in the 1980's. He has also illustrated two children's books, entitled The Gift for Witch Rosella and Mr. Wurtzel and the Halloween Bunny. He presently draws the editorial cartoon for the Guelph Tribune and self-syndicates his cartoon panel called Fray's Way. He is a member of The National Cartoonist Society. Brian holds a fourth degree black belt in Shorin Ryu Karate. He lives with his wife Chris, a glass artist, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He has as a son, John, an aspiring actor.

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