Clue: The Storybook – Scanned for you!
It’s no secret that I love the movie Clue. Besides the movie, there were also some books written by the screenwriters. Unfortunately, the movie wasn’t a big commercial success so the books were quickly discontinued and forgotten. Getting your hands on one of them is rather difficult – and expensive.
Thanks to an inter-library loan, however, I recently acquired a copy of Clue: The Storybook and did a page by page scan. I then combined the scans into a convenient PDF. The book provides a very abbreviated and thin read of the movie proper. The in-book pictures weren’t particularly good quality (very grainy prints), but there were some pictures I had not seen in any other sources nor in the movie itself.
The most interesting part of the book is that it reveals a secret 4th ending that had been rumored at, but supposedly never filmed.
Where can you get your hands on a copy? How about downloading the scanned copy I made right here so you don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars. Enjoy!
Download a PDF copy of Clue: The Storybook here!
Clue: The Storybook
by Ann Matthews (Storybook Adaptor), Johnathan Lynn (Screenplay), John Landis (Story)
Published Dec 1, 1985
ISBN: 0671618679
ISBN13: 9780671618674
- ISBN-10: 0671618679
- ISBN-13: 978-0671618674
Oct 2023 Update:
It looks like someone took my scans and then put them together up on the Internet Archive!
9 thoughts on “Clue: The Storybook – Scanned for you!”
Awesome! Thanks so much for doing this!
Any leads on the novelization?
I have the Michael McDowell novel myself. You can find copies on ebay occasionally for $100-$200 depending on condition.
However, you can listen to an amature reading of the whole audiobook version on youtube. Just be prepared for some mispronunciations and standard amature flubs.
The novelization is now free on Internet Archive!
https://mattfife.com/?p=6020
The fourth ending was filmed, but not edited & scrapped by director Jonathan Lynn, since it didn’t work,
& since the movie wasn’t a hit, all the footage is likely now gone & lost 🙁
John Cleese was the one who came up with the idea of turning Cluedo/Clue into a movie,
& wrote a script,
& he was going to play the butler,
but it was all re-written by Landis & Jonathan Lynn after Lynn came aboard
The fourth ending WAS shown in 1985. I saw it . And I never had the storybook or got my memories from anything but the theatrical showing. Newspapers listed which endings would be present btw.
Do you remember what the fourth ending was? Does it match the ending in this book?
I do know that local papers listed which ending you got.