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43) Cain's jawbone
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations...but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible--through logic and intelligent...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"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 her attorney friend Becky asks her to explore the possibility that her client Brittney's philandering husband is planning to murder her for the insurance money, Cora jumps at the chance. She brings in her loathsome...
49) Who done it?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must seek out the visual clues to answer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"The reader tries to follow Waldo as he embarks on a fantastic journey among the Gobbling Gluttons, the Battling Monks, the Deep-sea Divers, the Underground Hunters, and the Land of Waldos in search of a special scroll." --
Author
Language
English
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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
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to a DNA test, Avery Grambs knows that she is not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons ... and there are those who will stop at nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of old man Overmeyer. Small problem. Cora's niece, Sherry, who is off on her honeymoon, actually writes Cora's crossword puzzle column for her. So Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes. But she soon learns that the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a stock pooling agreement - and now the town is full of heirs....
57) Puzzle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father. That begins to change in a quietly dramatic fashion when Agnes receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift and experiences the heady thrill of not only doing something she enjoys, but being very, very good at it. --
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A series centered around four ordinary people who feel there is something missing in their lives; brought together by chance, they stumble into a puzzle hiding behind the veil of everyday life that opens their eyes to a new world of possibility." --
59) Playground
Author
Publisher
Lemniscaat
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes the journey is even more fun than the destination. Follow two children as they trek through trees, climb over sand dunes, cross a river, bushwhack through blackberry bushes, hop on clouds, and even descend into a dark cave on their way to the playground. Invite your little ones to let their fingers do the walking on their way through this interactive journey."--Back cover.
Two children find many adventures on their journey to the playground....
60) Ready player two
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless new rival--OCLC.
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