$10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles
A Puzzle Lady Mystery
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
"Groucho Marx meets Jessica Fletcher!"--RT Book Reviews
When young attorney Becky Baldwin hires Cora Felton to make a blackmail payment drop, it couldn't go worse: she stumbles over a corpse and a puzzle, and someone steals the money. Becky
won't tell her who the client is, but the most likely suspect is Cora's least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, who claims he's being framed by a psychopath with a grudge. Soon Cora finds herself in a no-win situation. Solving the murder will either put Melvin's neck in the noose, or incur the wrath of a cunning, cold-blooded killer who delights in playing deadly mind games and may be targeting her niece Sherry and Sherry's new baby girl.
$10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles is another delightful entry in Parnell Hall's entertaining Puzzle Lady series, featuring new puzzles by Will Shortz that help readers solve the mystery!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Hall's well-plotted if padded 13th mystery featuring PI and puzzle lady Cora Felton (after 2011's The KenKen Killings), lawyer Becky Baldwin persuades Cora to deliver a blackmail payment, in the amount stated in the book's title, on behalf of an unnamed client. When Cora opens the lid of the Dumpster at the abandoned gas station where she's to make the drop, she finds a man inside, shot in the temple. A piece of paper protruding from the dead man's pocket turns out to be, no surprise for this puzzle-themed cozy series, a sudoku. In the subsequent murder investigation, Cora and friends rehash events at length and bicker to the point where the reader has to wonder if they really care about solving the crime. At one point Brookhaven, Conn., police chief Dale Harper asks Cora to answer "in simple, declarative sentences." Cora's evasive, bantering replies may exasperate those who aren't already Hall fans.
