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Book Review of The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III
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This is the true(-ish) story of a private detective who tracked down a college student who had gone missing in 1979, and uncovered a whole story about kids playing a kind of live-action Dungeons and Dragons. At least I think that's what it's about; I didn't get very far into the book because the author's voice is so incredibly annoying. I suspect this story is the inspiration for Rona Jaffe's book Mazes and Monsters, which was one of my favorite novels when I was in high school, after I saw the TV movie of it. :-)