Murder Most Puzzling: Twenty Mysterious Cases to Solve
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Readers are cast as the faithful sidekick to amateur sleuth Medea Thorne in order to solve 20 puzzling cases.
Meet a cast of colorful characters—from ghost hunter extraordinaire Augustin Artaud, to Leonard Fanshawe, a competitor in the Annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival.
• A witty riff on the classic whodunit that brings out everyone's inner detective
• Each mystery is sumptuously illustrated.
• The mysteries require different deductive tactics, making them a good brain exercise
A body in the topiary garden, a death at a clairvoyants' convention, and the mysterious accident of the boating lake—prepare for a whirlwind adventure, laced with humor and a dash of the macabre.
This book will delight fans of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Gorey.
• This is a collection of darkly humorous puzzles.
• Features illustrations in a gorgeous gothic style by Stephanie von Reiswitz
• Perfect for Edward Gorey fans, mystery buffs, puzzle addicts, and fans of true crime podcasts and TV shows
• You'll love this book if you love books like The Gashlycrumb by Edward Gorey, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket, and The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket.
Stephanie von Reiswitz
Stephanie von Reiswitz is an artist and illustrator with a penchant for the mysterious and the darkly funny. Educated in Brussels and London, she graduated from Central St Martin's. She lives and works in London, and in her spare time she can be found taking part in sinister theatrical events, or playing in various musical ensembles and circumstances.
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Reviews for Murder Most Puzzling
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Don’t bother. you can’t solve the mysteries based on what’s in the stories. And they’re not even well written. it’s all tell. there is no shoe.
This is no “two minutes mysteries”
Book preview
Murder Most Puzzling - Stephanie von Reiswitz
introduction
Your decision to answer the small ad in the Gazette was mainly motivated by your meagre finances, and by the vague promise of excitement. Who hasn’t wondered what detectives do all day? And you do enjoy a good brain teaser, after all.
The private detective, Medea Thorne, arranges your formal interview in a dingy bar, and when you encounter her you are surprised by her slight stature. Her gaze, however, is steely, and you suspect she’s already worked out your shoe size, your original hair colour, and what you’ve had for your breakfast—which unlike hers did not include a stiff whisky.
You’ll start tomorrow, if that suits,
she announces. Seeing as you’re the only applicant. Not that I didn’t expect that. After all, people tend to be intimidated by local celebrities. But I’m glad that you’re unfazed.
Of course you won’t mention that you’ve never heard of her. Soon enough, though, you’ll discover that she is quite well known in police circles for her irritating knack for being right, and that her rate of success is indeed impressive. It’ll take you some time to get used to her brusque and at times abrasive manner, her penchant for dubious establishments, and her over-reliance on you as a taxi service as much as an assistant and secretary.
This book is a record of twenty of your adventures together, during which you’ve solved murders using lateral thinking, riddled out mathematical puzzles, noticed important clues, located stolen goods, and collected hard evidence to put the perpetrators away. Thanks to Medea Thorne’s unfortunate habit of dropping a few suggestive remarks about the crime before swanning off elsewhere, it’s down to you to do the leg work time and time again.
the collector
Summoned to the beautiful mansion of one Reginald Audley, we encounter Hislop, his diminutive maid, in a state of shock. He’s been coshed on the head!
she exclaims. I was just about to dust his study—he’s not usually in there at this hour!
Why did you ring for us, rather than the police?
Medea Thorne demands.
I would have, only—
Hislop fidgets with her handkerchief. Well, he’s got a few things in his collection that . . . I thought if you could present the evidence to the police, they wouldn’t need to look at his treasures too closely.
Sounds like the old blighter,
Ms. Thorne mutters under her breath, lighting one of her black cigars.
According to the sobbing maid, Reginald Audley was a very exacting man. He only recently acquired a piece that he thought perfectly completed his collection to date, and he invited a number of visitors to celebrate. Hislop last saw him just after lunch, when she brought him the cocktail trolley and two trays of lobster sandwiches. He asked her to answer the door and show his guests to the study before she headed out for her afternoon off. Five guests appeared at more or less the same time.
amber audley. Ms. Audley is Mr. Audley’s niece and only living relative. I imagine she stands to inherit,