
Arsenic and Old Puzzles
A Puzzle Lady Mystery
Parnell Hall(Author)
Minotaur Books,US (Publisher)
Published on 22. January 2013
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-312-60248-2 (ISBN)
Description
When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it - except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which two old ladies who run a boarding house poison elderly widowers and bury them in the basement. More murders, more puzzles, and a grave dug in the cellar seem to cement the theory. Ordinarily, Cora would eat a case like this for breakfast, but for once she can't figure it out. And she's not sure if the clues don't add up, or if the much-married Puzzle Lady is just distracted by being involved in her first romantic entanglement in years.
Reviews / Votes
"Puzzle-master Hall again produces a clever whodunit laced with humor and an amateur sleuth at once endearing and infuriating. Readers will have fun filling in the squares of this rollicking mystery."--"Richmond Times-Dispatch""Cora's zaniness rubs off on everyone, to the delight of fans old and new."--"Booklist""Feisty Cora Felton...is at her cantankerous, obfuscating, trouble-stirring best in Hall's delightful 14th Bakerhaven, Conn., romp (after 2012's "$10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles")."--"Publishers Weekly""Clever, manipulative Cora provides laughs and an ingenious mystery along with the obligatory puzzles for those who can't figure out whodunit."--"Kirkus Reviews"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
St Martin's Press
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
8 sudoku & 8 crossword puzzles
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
597 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-60248-2 (9780312602482)
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Person
Parnell Hall is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Teddy Fay thrillers. He is the author of the Puzzle Lady mysteries, the Stanley Hastings private eye novels, and the Steve Winslow courtroom thrillers. He is a Shamus Award winner, and has been nominated for the Edgar and the Lefty. He lives in New York City.