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Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The crime-solving powers of the inimitable Cora and her clever niece, Sherry Carter, are put to the ultimate test as they square off against a yuletide killer who hides within the white-and-black shadows of an acrostic. Smug crossword-creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death of an actress.
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While investigating her client's claim that her husband is trying to kill her, Cora Felton must prove her client's innocence after the husband is killed by a car bomb.
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
It looks like wedding bells again for the much-married Cora Felton when distinguished widower Raymond Harstein III moves into town and makes a play for the Puzzle Lady. That is, until the mail brings puzzling cryptograms, which, when deciphered, warn Cora off the match. As the puzzles keep coming, a killer's game must be played in earnest, and it's up to the Puzzle Lady to solve the riddle if anyone is going to live to make it to the altar!
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
When nerdy cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a birthday bash for Cora Felton at the Bakerhaven Library, it's no surprise that the centerpiece, a huge cake decorated like a crossword puzzle, is a complete bust--until a corpse thrown from the second floor stacks hits it dead center and fills in 14 down. Cora may hate birthdays almost as much as she hates crossword puzzles--but when it comes to solving crimes, no one can hold a candle to the Puzzle...
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Bakerhaven, Connecticut, the home of Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, seems like the ideal place to host a charity crossword-puzzle tournament. A slew of celebrity contestants are on the way, and the locals have been invited to challenge the veteran puzzlers head-on. But soon the town's attention is fixated on something far more controversial than crosswords when the body of the town tart is discovered lying dead on her kitchen floor. Before anyone can...
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 1
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Miss Cora Felton is an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece whos determined to keep her out of trouble. When the body of an unknown teenage girl turns up in the cemetery in the quiet town of Bakerhaven, Police Chief Dale Harper finds himself investigating his first homicide. A baffling clue leads him to consult Bakerhavens resident puzzle experthis...
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Cora Felton may look like everyones favorite grandmother. But the white-haired, bespectacled Puzzle Lady swears, smokes, gambles, and is even dodgy on the subject of how many husbands shes had. So it strikes her long-suffering niece Sherry Carter as amusing when Cora announces, "Im tired of living a lie!" The inspiration for this sudden burst of honesty is a promotion by Granville Grains featuring the Puzzle Lady on a bus tour...
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