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"Deliciously convoluted amateur sleuth mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 15, 2004

She is known as the puzzle lady but it is really her publicity shy niece who is the puzzle constructor. Cora's favorite pastime is solving real life murder mysteries, which is why she agrees to lawyer Becky Baldwin's proposition. Becky wants Cora to find out if convicted murderer Read more...

"Wonderful addition to this "puzzling" mystery series."
Reviewed by Anne Barringer
Posted January 14, 2005

Life is puzzling at best and no one knows that better than Cora Felton a/k/a the "Puzzle Lady." However, it's not the puzzles in the paper she loves to solve, but rather good old down to earth murder and mayhem that's more her style. Even though the rest of the Read more...

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 Lady.