{"id":3971,"date":"2019-05-04T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2025-03-02T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:49:55","slug":"clue-the-storybook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Clue: The Storybook &#8211; Scanned for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/special\/clue.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51h-eVYkcxL._SX366_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I love the movie <em>Clue<\/em>. Besides the movie, there were also some books written by the screenwriters. Unfortunately, the movie wasn&#8217;t a big commercial success so the books were quickly discontinued and forgotten. Getting your hands on one of them is rather difficult &#8211; <a aria-label=\"and expensive. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paramount-Pictures-Presents-Clue-Storybook\/dp\/0671618679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and expensive.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to an inter-library loan, however, I recently acquired a copy of <em>Clue: The Storybook<\/em> 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most interesting part of the book is that it reveals a secret 4th ending that had been rumored at, but supposedly never filmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where can you get your hands on a copy? How about downloading the scanned copy I made right here so you don&#8217;t have to pay hundreds of dollars. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\"Give the book a look here. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/special\/clue.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download a PDF copy of Clue: The Storybook here!<\/a><br><br><strong>Clue: The Storybook<\/strong><br>by&nbsp;Ann Matthews&nbsp;(Storybook Adaptor),&nbsp;Johnathan Lynn&nbsp;(Screenplay),&nbsp;John Landis&nbsp;(Story)<br>Published Dec 1, 1985<br>ISBN:&nbsp;0671618679<br>ISBN13:&nbsp;9780671618674<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\ufeffISBN-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;0671618679<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong>&nbsp;978-0671618674<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oct 2023 Update:<\/span><\/strong><br>It looks like someone took my scans and then put them together up on the Internet Archive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/cluethestorybook\">https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/cluethestorybook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;t a big commercial success so the books were quickly discontinued and forgotten. Getting your hands on one of them is rather difficult &#8211; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3971\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookreviews","category-clue","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-123","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}