Puzzled Indemnity
A Puzzle Lady Mystery
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A Car Bomb Shatters the Quiet Streets of Bakerhaven, Turning a Routine Case Into a Deadly Game...
It's been a cold, lonely winter for Cora Felton. Long distance has cooled the Puzzle Lady's on-again-off-again affair with Sergeant Crowley, and the only case Chief Harper has for her to investigate is a routine liquor store robbery. So when attorney friend Becky Baldwin asks her to check out whether Brittney Wells' philandering husband is planning to kill her to collect on a million dollar, double indemnity insurance policy, Cora jumps at the chance.
Tracking the cheating husband to his love nest proves easy for Cora, but convincing Brittany of the affair is another matter. Resorting to blackmail, Cora's plans are suddenly derailed when a car bomb rocks the quiet streets of Bakerhaven, escalating the case to murder.
To save Becky's clueless client from the clutches of the law, Cora must manipulate a TV reporter, cast suspicion on an innocent man, crack crossword and Sudoku clues, and solve the liquor store robbery. She'll need the aid of both Sergeant Crowley and his girlfriend in Parnell Hall's Puzzled Indemnity, this outrageous new entry in the Puzzle Lady Mystery series featuring Sudoku by Will Shortz.
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In Hall's whimsical 16th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2014's NYPD Puzzle), amateur sleuth Cora agrees to help a local attorney in Bakerhaven, Conn., by tailing an insurance salesman and finding out if he's cheating on his wife. Happily for married Cora, the assignment takes her to New York City, home of the NYPD's Sergeant Crowley, her occasional lover. The investigation leads to the apartment of a mysterious woman. As events spiral out of control, questions arise about the shelf life of such a quirky character as Cora. Known for worrying about her weight, dodging people's questions about puzzles (her niece Kelly is the real puzzle expert), and complaining about everything in her life, Cora starts using blackmail. What's more, her careless conversation later costs a man his life. Some readers may lose patience with her before reaching the convoluted conclusion. Others will enjoy the parallels to James M. Cain's Double Indemnity.
