THE 39 CLUES

The 39 clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collection of authors including Rick Riordan, Gordan Korman, Jude Watson etc. The series' first book- The maze of bones was published on 9th December 2008. The story revolves around two Orphan siblings Amy and Dan Cahill who discover that their family, the Cahills, has been the most influential family in history. The main story arc is about Amy and Dan's quest to find 39 Clues related to creating a serum that could create the strongest, most intelligent, craftiest and skillful person in the world.






The book has a great mix of fantasy, science fiction and realism to it. The Cahill family, which is one of the most influential families in the world disintegrated a long time back. It was divided into five branches each having a special skill that they mastered and led by the children of Gideon and Olivia Cahill

• Lucian- Smartness and ruthlessness (founded by Luke)
• Tomas- Strength (founded by Thomas)
• Ekaterina- ingenuity, creativity (founded by Katherine)
• Janus- Artistic in everything they do (founded by Jane)

• Madrigals- The secretive and thought of as the most dangerous branch (founded by Madeleinine)

In the 1500's, Gideon Cahill, created a serum that would create the strongest human on the earth. His children wanted the power that it would bring to them and wanted to control the world. The serum was initially made by Gideon to cure Black Plague. However, it had adverse effects on Gideon and made him younger, physical and unusually strong. His children were persuading Gideon to hand over the serum to them. But Gideon, aware of the hazards of the imperfect serum gave only a part of it to each one of them.


The children drank their parts of the serum and inherited skills that would be passed down to their future generations forever.




Present day:
The caretaker of the Cahill family Grace Cahill dies of old age and before dying, writes a will inviting all the branches of the Cahill family to take part in a Do or Die clue hunt for the perfected serum. She specifically tells her two grandchildren Dan and Amy to take part in the clue hunt as she believed they were the only ones who had it in them to prevent the world from being run by greedy and ruthless fiends of the Cahill family.


Dan and Amy understand what their grandmother meant and with the help of their guardian Nelly face the wrath of the entire Cahill family who won't hesitate to eliminate them from not only the clue hunt, but also to kill their own relatives for the sake of the serum!