Crime and Puzzlement 3: 24 Solve-Them-Youself Picture Mysteries

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David R. Godine Publisher, 1988 - Games & Activities - 78 pages

Match your sleuthing skills against Julius Quackery, amateur detective extraordinaire, as he tries to find out: Who beaned poor Kippy Betcher, ex-jockey, and sent him on his final ride? Wealthy Robert Pickle has disappeared overboard -- suicide or murder? The police hold a photograph of the murderer on the way to his crime -- but who or what is in the picture?

  • Read the story
  • Ponder the picture
  • Seize pencil in fist
  • And solve it yourself!

In this devilish anthology you'll find more delightfully murderous suspense from the blood-red pen of the criminally successful Lawrence Treat.

 

Contents

Introduction
7
Paper Dolls
14
Track Meet
20
Julius and the Jollyboat
26
Man Overboard
32
A Little Bit of Difference
38
Langton Teapot
44
Upsy Downsy
48
Solutions
61
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About the author (1988)

Lawrence Treat was a prolific author of mystery novels and short stories and was the founder of the Mystery Writers of America. He began his professional career as a lawyer, but when his law firm broke down, he turned to writing. Besides his crime novels, he created what he referred to as crime mystery picture puzzle books, such as Crime and Puzzlement. Paul Karasik lives on Martha's Vineyard.

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