The Twenty-One Clues
The Twenty-One Clues

Author: J J Connington

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1471906183

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The Constable was content to call it a suicide pact. All the evidence was there. The bodies of John Barratt and Mrs Callis were discovered in a lovers' nook among some bracken. Beside them was a pistol with Barratt's fingerprints on it, and torn up letters in the handwriting of Barratt and Mrs Callis were scattered around. Arrangements for the elopement had apparently been complete. Why had their plans fallen through? Why had they turned their backs on the railway station with tickets to London in their pockets? Sir Clinton Driffield is not so sure that the obvious solution is the right one ...

Not a Clue
Not a Clue

Author: Chloé Delaume

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1496212967

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In this life-size game of Clue, six psychiatric patients in Paris's Saint Anne's Hospital are suspects in the murder of Dr. Black. Though Not a Clue tells the stories of these possible assassins, their lives, and what has brought them to the hospital, the true focus of Chloé Delaume's intense and tumultuous novel is not merely to discover the identity of the murderer. Rather, by cleverly combining humor with the day-to-day effects of life's unrelenting compromises, Not a Clue is an astute commentary on the current state of literary production and consumption. Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as well as their psychiatrists, and a writer who intervenes by refusing to intervene, Delaume uses the characters, weapons, and rooms of the board game Clue to challenge--sometimes violently, sometimes playfully--the norms of typography, syntax, and narrative conventions.

A Clue for the Puzzle Lady
A Clue for the Puzzle Lady

Author: Parnell Hall

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2000-07-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0553581406

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Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece who's determined to keep her out of trouble. When the body of an unknown teenage girl turns up in the cemetery in the quiet town of Bakerhaven, Police Chief Dale Harper finds himself investigating his first homicide. A baffling clue leads him to consult Bakerhaven's resident puzzle expert-his first big mistake. Soon Cora's meddling, mischief-making behavior drives Chief Harper to distraction and inspires many cross words from her long-suffering niece, Sherry. But when another body turns up in a murder that hits much closer to home, Cora must find a killer-before she winds up in a wooden box three feet across...and six down.

The Winning Clue
The Winning Clue

Author: James Hay

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2023-09-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Bristow sprang to his feet and started down the short flight of stairs leading from his porch to the street. Before he had taken three steps, he saw the frightened girl standing on the porch of No. 5, two doors to his left. Although he was lame, he displayed surprising agility. His left leg, two inches shorter than the right and supported by a steel brace from foot to thigh, did not prevent his being the first to reach the young woman’s side....FROM THE BOOKS.

A Killer Clue
A Killer Clue

Author: Victoria Gilbert

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1639106448

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Perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Jenn McKinlay, acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert is back with more devious clues and deadly secrets as Hunter and Clewe take on a new case in the second Hunter and Clewe mystery. When Eloise Anderson, the owner of an antiquarian bookshop, arrives at the grand Aircroft estate to ask retired librarian Jane Hunter and eccentric collector Cameron Clewe for help, Jane and Cam expect a bookish inquiry. But the bookseller has a different sort of assistance in mind—clearing her mother’s name of a murder Eloise is convinced she didn’t commit. Eloise’s mother has just died after spending many years in prison for allegedly killing Eloise’s father. Armed with new information found in her mother’s effects, the bookseller is determined to uncover the true killer so her mother can rest in peace, even though the case is now colder than ice. When Jane tracks down the original detective from the investigation and discovers him stabbed to death in Eloise’s bookshop, Jane and Cam are sure this murder is connected to the cold case. They think it’s the same killer, but the police unfortunately have their own prime suspect, and this time around it’s Eloise. Cam and Jane’s cold-case sleuthing turns urgent—find who committed the murders or watch another innocent woman rot in jail as a cold-blooded killer walks free.

The Castleford Conundrum
The Castleford Conundrum

Author: J J Connington

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2014-06-14

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 147190606X

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Philip Castleford was more than worried. Were all those years he had spent attending to Winifred's whims, enduring her habits, to count for nothing? He hadn't minded it too much for he thought that his daughter Hilary would have security - but now he found her shabbily treated and his own position undermined by his wife's grasping brothers. Such were the affairs at Carron Hill one fine morning when Winifred was discovered murdered in the deserted summer house ...

Your Clue Is Not Alive
Your Clue Is Not Alive

Author: Joy Mastroianni

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1682355136

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The Boston Police are having a hard time trying to outwit a mastermind with serious issues. This serial killer likes to think he’s playing with the lives – or deaths – of people he believes are bad contestants in this game we call life. They call him the Game Host. Because the only clue he leaves behind at each murder scene is a game piece. Detectives Regina Armani and Jo Columbo have a lot to prove to themselves and others on their first major case. They’re determined to find and stop this madman before he makes his next move of death. In the end, who will win or lose in this life-or-death battle before the final game is over?

A Clue to the Exit
A Clue to the Exit

Author: Edward St. Aubyn

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1250046041

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A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.