Return of the Wanderer is the third and final volume in the Cretan Chronicles trilogy of gamebooks and was written by John Butterfield, David Honigmann and Philip Parker, illustrated by Dan Woods and published by Puffin Books in 1986 (ISBN 0-14-031814-3) under the Adventure Gamebooks banner which also covered the more popular Fighting Fantasy and the related Sorcery! series, as well as the Starlight Adventures and the one-off Shakespearean-era role-playing game Maelstrom.