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Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bakerhaven, Connecticut, seems like the ideal place to host a charity crossword-puzzle tournament--after all, the town is home to Cora Felton, the beloved puzzle columnist known as the Puzzle Lady. 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 townś attention is fixated on something far more controversial than crosswords...when the body of the town tart is...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cora Felton may look like everyoneś favorite grandmother. But the white-haired, bespectacled Puzzle Lady swears, smokes, gambles, and is even dodgy on the subject of how many husbands sheś had. So it strikes her long-suffering niece Sherry Carter as amusing when Cora announces, "Iḿ 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 of televised personal...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has every right to feel like a grinch. When someone steals the partridge from the pear tree and replaces it with a cryptic puzzle she has no hope of solving, itś almost more than the Puzzle Lady can bear. But then smug crossword creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
323 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece who's 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,...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Benny Southstreet, a small-time hustler with a big-time gift for constructing crosswords, accuses Cora of stealing one of his creations, itś clearly a case of mistaken identity--until Coraś own attorney files a plagiarism suit against her. To add to the enigma, when Benny is found dead, the police charge Cora with his murder! At the heart of the matter is the not-so-little white lie Cora has been living for years: assuming the grandmotherly...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 18 cm.
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, it does until the mail brings puzzling cryptograms, which, when deciphered, warn Cora off the match. Or do they? As the puzzles keep coming, a killerś game must be played in earnest, and itś up to the Puzzle Lady to solve the riddle--if anyone is going to live to make it...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling over a murder scene while making a blackmail payment for a young attorney, Cora Felton's efforts to solve the crime put her in the path of a killer who may be targeting her niece and her niece's new baby.
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When young attorney Becky Balwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. Cora is just coming off a bad breakup, and finding out that Chief Harper testified at a parole hearing for a killer she helped put away, has her feeling old. But when she and Becky arrive at the apartment, they find the man is dead. There's a puzzle on his chest, and a prowler is...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
309 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the battle of the century when Minami, the Sudoku Lady, shows up in Bakerhaven to meet Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, whose sudoku books have just edged Minami off of the Japanese bestseller list. Before the rivals have a chance to square off, a killer strikes, and a sudoku puzzle is found at the scene of the murder. Now it's a fight to the finish to see who can unmask the killer. The Puzzle Lady is eager to undo her Japanese counterpart. At least...
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sherry, the brains behind her Aunt Cora's fame as the author of a popular syndicated crossword puzzle column, finds herself in somewhat of a dilemma when Cora is assigned the duty of refereeing a contest between the possible heirs of Emma Hurley's estate.
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