Richard Newsome’s adventure series about murder, mystery and money ... lots and lots of money ... is being read around the world.

The first book in the series, The Billionaire’s Curse, sets 13-year-old Gerald Wilkins on the quest of a lifetime to find a killer and solve a thousand-year-old puzzle.

And now, The Emerald Casket, part two of the adventure, takes Gerald and his friends Sam and Ruby to exotic India, where they face down a deadly cult and uncover a hidden city in their pursuit to solve the Billionaire’s mystery.

The final chapter in the series is out now in Australia, and in the US in the northern Spring of 2012: The Mask of Destiny has Gerald facing his deadliest foe yet, and a showdown that answers all the puzzles of the Archer Legacy.

And here’s a sneak peek!