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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Crime, cryptograms, and killer conundrums abound for the Puzzle Lady in the fourth installment of the series USA Today raves is “a fun series for mystery fans and cruciverbalists!”It looks like wedding bells again for the much-married Cora Felton when distinguished widower Raymond Harstein III moves into town and makes a play for the Puzzle Lady. That is, it does until the mail brings puzzling cryptograms, which, when deciphered, warn Cora off the match.
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As the puzzles keep coming, a killer’s game must be played in earnest, and it’s up to the Puzzle Lady to solve the riddle—if anyone is going to live to make it to the altar!. show less
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I greatly enjoyed this 5th book in the Puzzle Lady series of cozy mysteries. Cora is about to get married, for the umpteenth time, to a mysterious man from California, and suddenly Sherry's abusive ex-husband shows up engaged to her best friend. Before the nuptials can take place, Cora's fiance is found dead in his home with knife sticking out of his chest. The plot is contrived and not at all based on anything close to reality, but it kept me engaged anyway right up to the end. I did not appreciate the puzzle aspect in this one as much as in the previous novels, mostly just because they were anagrams, but also because the final puzzle was just too complicated.
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Parnell Hall is a part-time actor, a former private detective, singer/songwriter, and full-time writer of novels and screenplays. He writes the Stanley Hastings Mystery series, the Steve Winslow courtroom drama series, and the Puzzle Lady Mystery series. He also writes under the pseudonym J. P. Hailey. He wrote the screenplay to the 1984 movie show more C.H.U.D. Hall co-authored New York Times bestseller Smooth Operator with Stuart Woods. (Bowker Author Biography) Parnell Hall has been nominated for the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Lefty Awards for his mysteries. Bantam will publish his third Puzzle Lady mystery, Puzzled to Death, in Fall 2001. He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Cora Felton; Sherry Carter; Raymond Harstein III
- Important places
- Bakerhaven, Connecticut, USA (fictitious town)
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- Members
- 175
- Popularity
- 186,433
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.55)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
