![]() The artist had never been a fan of crosswords or anagrams, and felt sure anything he could devise in that format would easily be cracked by expert puzzlers. It had to be something detailed enough to identify the burial spot with great precision, but cunning enough to present a real challenge. Williams returned home, and set about devising a structure for the master puzzle itself. “We gave him a contract and paid the £3,000.” “I was totally convinced,” he says in his memoirs. ![]() He managed a slightly calmer explanation this time, and Maschler was sold. His credit, Maschler did not dismiss this tirade out of hand, but arranged instead for Williams to visit his London office in a couple of weeks' time. “He was saying ‘Oh, the treasure and the moon and the sun and the stars, and, and, and, a hare! And I need the money! I need £3,000 to buy the gold! And then there's the puzzle, but I don't know what it is yet. “One day, the telephone rang, and Williams was on it,” the publisher recalled. By then, about three months had passed, and an excited Williams decided it was time to talk to Maschler again. ![]()
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