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Arsenic and Old Puzzles (Puzzle Lady, Bk 14)
Arsenic and Old Puzzles - Puzzle Lady, Bk 14 Author:Parnell Hall When an elderly boarder at the Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it -- except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects that she'... more »;s dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which two old ladies who run a boarding house poison elderly wodowers and bury them in the basement. More murders and more puzzles seem to cement the theory.
Ordinarily, Cora would eat a case like this for breakfast, but for once she can't figure it out. And she's not sure if the clues don't add up or if the much-married Puzzle Lady is just distracted by being involved in her first romantic entanglement in years.« less