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Solve the Mystery: 41 Puzzling Cases
Do you see yourself as a sharp-eyed private investigator, capable of thoroughly examining evidence, checking all the facts, and coming to a sound conclusion? If the answer is “yes,” then this entertaining collection of solve-it-yourself mini-mysteries is just the book for you.
You’ll find 41 challenging cases involving robbery, murder, jewel heists, arson, embezzlement, and other criminal activities. They’re all here in concise, carefully constructed scenarios featuring hapless victims of suspicious redheads, scheming socialites, and assorted crooks.
As a would-be detective, you’re invited to crack The Case of The Attic Arsonist, The Case of The Bashful Bullet, The Case of The Bomb in the Bon-Bons, The Case of The Conked Clerk, The Case of The Dapper Dead-Beat, and 36 other intriguing puzzles. Junior-grade sleuths can check their crime-solving conclusions by reading the solutions at the end of each story.
You’ll find 41 challenging cases involving robbery, murder, jewel heists, arson, embezzlement, and other criminal activities. They’re all here in concise, carefully constructed scenarios featuring hapless victims of suspicious redheads, scheming socialites, and assorted crooks.
As a would-be detective, you’re invited to crack The Case of The Attic Arsonist, The Case of The Bashful Bullet, The Case of The Bomb in the Bon-Bons, The Case of The Conked Clerk, The Case of The Dapper Dead-Beat, and 36 other intriguing puzzles. Junior-grade sleuths can check their crime-solving conclusions by reading the solutions at the end of each story.
64 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1997
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October 26, 2024
I got this book for free and for fun - decided to test my detective skills. "Solve the Mystery: 41 Puzzling Cases" is indeed a fun book.
This book is part of the Dover Kids Activity Books and for junior-grade sleuths. I think some of these mysteries are too mature for kids, as some stories talk about bullet wounds and dead bodies and murder weapons and suicide notes.
In this book, there are challenging cases involving robbery, murder, jewel heists, arson, embezzlement and other criminal activities. Each case is about a page long and the answer is listed on the bottom upside down.
It took me a few tries before I finally understood which clues to look out for. The question at the end of each case is usually always the same: "Why do you suspect so and so?"
I like that each case is told from the point of view of the reader. "You enter the room... you question the witnesses.... you look at the weapon... you hold the money...."
The cases I could NOT get the answers to are the ones where you are supposed to find the killer out of a group of other suspects through detective's notes. 'The Case of the Card-Party Killing' and 'The Case of the Dope-Ring Redheads' and 'The Case of the Teenage Terror' are especially difficult.
If you are looking for a book where you figure out clues, examine evidence, check the facts and crack the case, "Solve the Mystery: 41 Puzzling Cases" is the book for you!
This book is part of the Dover Kids Activity Books and for junior-grade sleuths. I think some of these mysteries are too mature for kids, as some stories talk about bullet wounds and dead bodies and murder weapons and suicide notes.
In this book, there are challenging cases involving robbery, murder, jewel heists, arson, embezzlement and other criminal activities. Each case is about a page long and the answer is listed on the bottom upside down.
It took me a few tries before I finally understood which clues to look out for. The question at the end of each case is usually always the same: "Why do you suspect so and so?"
I like that each case is told from the point of view of the reader. "You enter the room... you question the witnesses.... you look at the weapon... you hold the money...."
The cases I could NOT get the answers to are the ones where you are supposed to find the killer out of a group of other suspects through detective's notes. 'The Case of the Card-Party Killing' and 'The Case of the Dope-Ring Redheads' and 'The Case of the Teenage Terror' are especially difficult.
If you are looking for a book where you figure out clues, examine evidence, check the facts and crack the case, "Solve the Mystery: 41 Puzzling Cases" is the book for you!
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December 16, 2017
All the mysteries in this book are at most little more than a page and some just fill a page. Therefore, every word may be of significance, the key is to recognize the phrase that contains the critical clue(s). The solution is given in inverted text at the end of the mystery. Some of the solutions are obvious while reading the mystery, others are obvious when the solution is read and then there are others where it is hard to see where the critical clue is in the text of the mystery.
Robberies and murders are the main crimes that are to be solved, clearly there are no elaborate murder plots. This book is fun, and the puzzles are challenging, brief intellectual exercises to flex the critical brain cells.
Robberies and murders are the main crimes that are to be solved, clearly there are no elaborate murder plots. This book is fun, and the puzzles are challenging, brief intellectual exercises to flex the critical brain cells.
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