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Murder at the Chessboard
Can you catch the culprit? Grab your magnifying glass and join the ranks of great detectives featured in Murder at the Chessboard.
Devised for amateur sleuths of all levels, Murder at the Chessboard is the ultimate companion for a cold night, a long trip, or an evening of fun with friends, and family.
These 44 absorbing whodunit puzzlers are sure to sharpen your natural deduction skills and exercise your brain cells as the clues, alibis, and testimony pile up for you examination and analysis. You'll discover nothing is "elementary" in the crime-solver's world, and no one can be trusted. Start with the simpler mysteries at the beginning of the book, and as you hone your powers of deduction, progress to the more challenging ones. You'll be a super-sleuth in no time!
Couldn't crack a challenging case? Check the solution in the back of the book and see just how twisted the plot can get!
Solve perplexing mysteries and baffling murder cases - without leaving your armchair!
Search for clues, evaluate evidence, and exercise your brain to solve these and other challenging whodunit puzzlers:
Who killed sweet Mama Maria Monteneras in the cool, pine-forested estate of Hacienda del Sol, on the very anniversary of her husband's death
Who murdered Robert Dunhope of Dunhope & Henson, a prosperous insurance agency, at an intimate New Year's Eve party?
How was a world-famous musician silently poisoned at his own concert, while everyone else survived?
Still puzzled? Flip to the end of the book and put it all together. Crime-solving has never been more rewarding...or more fun.
Devised for amateur sleuths of all levels, Murder at the Chessboard is the ultimate companion for a cold night, a long trip, or an evening of fun with friends, and family.
These 44 absorbing whodunit puzzlers are sure to sharpen your natural deduction skills and exercise your brain cells as the clues, alibis, and testimony pile up for you examination and analysis. You'll discover nothing is "elementary" in the crime-solver's world, and no one can be trusted. Start with the simpler mysteries at the beginning of the book, and as you hone your powers of deduction, progress to the more challenging ones. You'll be a super-sleuth in no time!
Couldn't crack a challenging case? Check the solution in the back of the book and see just how twisted the plot can get!
Solve perplexing mysteries and baffling murder cases - without leaving your armchair!
Search for clues, evaluate evidence, and exercise your brain to solve these and other challenging whodunit puzzlers:
Who killed sweet Mama Maria Monteneras in the cool, pine-forested estate of Hacienda del Sol, on the very anniversary of her husband's death
Who murdered Robert Dunhope of Dunhope & Henson, a prosperous insurance agency, at an intimate New Year's Eve party?
How was a world-famous musician silently poisoned at his own concert, while everyone else survived?
Still puzzled? Flip to the end of the book and put it all together. Crime-solving has never been more rewarding...or more fun.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2001
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
August 12, 2007
a good read for mystery lovers
May 18, 2015
Murder at the Chessboard is a collection of short murder mysteries of no more than a few pages each. The reader is invited to come up with a solution to the crime, and then check the solution key in the back of the book. The difficulty level ranges from decoding simple contradictory statements to considerably more complex cases.
I seem to recall liking "Encyclopedia" Brown books a lot more when I was a kid.
I seem to recall liking "Encyclopedia" Brown books a lot more when I was a kid.
April 29, 2014
I was hoping for Encyclopedia Brown for grown-ups, and for the most part, that's what I got. But the puzzles get harder as you go on--not a bad thing, but some of them are so convoluted and difficult that it's really quite absurd.
December 8, 2010
Not a terrible book of brain teasers, though some cases were more circumstantial than others.
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