Arsenic and Old Puzzles: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries)

By Parnell Hall

The Puzzle woman embarks on one other experience concerning one vintage motion picture and that includes new puzzles by means of Will Shortz

When an aged boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops lifeless in the course of afternoon tea, there is not anything relatively suspicious approximately it―except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. but if a moment physique turns up within the window seat and an post-mortem exhibits either males have been poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle woman suspects she's facing a cold-blooded killer who for a few cause is copying the Cary furnish motion picture Arsenic and outdated Lace, during which previous girls who run a boarding condo poison aged widowers and bury them within the basement. extra murders, extra puzzles, and a grave dug within the cellar appear to cement the theory.

Ordinarily, Cora might devour a case like this for breakfast, yet for as soon as she cannot determine it out. And she's uncertain if the clues do not upload up, or if the much-married Puzzle woman is simply distracted by means of being taken with her first romantic entanglement in years.

Arsenic and outdated Puzzles is stuffed with laughs, mayhem, and enjoyable new puzzles by means of Will Shortz. secret and puzzle fanatics will locate a lot to get pleasure from during this newest deal with from Parnell Hall.

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