Description: When Mark borrows a copy of Great Expectations from the school library, he finds, concealed between two pages, an envelope containing three crisp one-hundred-dollar bills. There is also a note, mysterious but intriguing, that invites the finder to embark on a quest. If Mark can puzzle out the meaning of a series of enigmatic verse clues meant to lead him on a treasure hunt around his hometown of Pittsburgh, then, like Charles Dickens's Pip, he is promised a fortune. But he must follow certain rules -- like working in absolute secrecy -- or the deal is off. Rewarded by gifts of money, Mark uses the clues to move from one strange Pittsburgh location to the next -- an abandoned steel mill, an old astronomical observatory -- when suddenly of the quest change....

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