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Surprisingly though, few didactic figures from his childhood supposed that he would write a book. Leaving only to pursue service in the Royal Navy from 1961 until 1965, Williams masterfully bled much of his figurative landscape into his riddle-ridden novel Masquerade. Born in 1946 at Romney Marshes in Kent, England and raised there until he was a late teenager, Kit Williams loved the atmosphere of his childhood. On reaching the Sun, Jack finds that he has lost the treasure, and the reader is challenged to discover its location.English-born artist and subsequent author, Kit Williams, arrived at his success in a seemingly roundabout manner, however, with one look at the vibrant photos of this obviously eclectic male, it is no wonder that his work became such an obsession for Americans in the early eighties. Masquerade contains fifteen detailed paintings that illustrate the story of a hare named Jack Hare, who seeks to carry a treasure from the Moon (depicted as a woman) to the Sun (depicted as a man). The book's theme, a hunt for a valuable treasure, became his means to this end. Williams set out to create a book that readers would study carefully rather than flip through and then discard. "In the 1970s, Williams was challenged by Tom Maschler, of the British publishing firm Jonathan Cape, to do "something no one has ever done before" with a picture book. Two British physics teachers were later acknowledged to be the first to have correctly solved the puzzle." It was later found that Thomson had not solved the puzzle and had guessed the hare's location using insider knowledge obtained from a former acquaintance of Williams.

"In March 1982 Williams received a letter and sketch from a man called Dugald Thomson, which he acknowledged as the first correct solution to the puzzle, meaning that Thomson had won the contest.

The book became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts." "Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by including concealed clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare that had been created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams. One of the most famous Armchair Treasure Hunt books, from author and Illustrator Kit Williams.