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Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A British comic writer at The Guardian explores the history of the crossword puzzle, which made its debut in 1913 and went from being considered a menace to productivity to being used to recruit codebreakers by the military.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of Old Man Overmeyer. Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes and soon learns the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a forty-year-old stock pooling agreement.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (252 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A crossword puzzle editor's work is found at the scene of the murder of a burglarized art gallery owner; a crossword puzzle editor teams up with a detective to catch the killer when an old friend is found murdered on the same day her puzzle includes his marriage proposal; a crossword puzzle editor teams up with a detective to investigate a murder during a magic show.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 12
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Hank must work on a huge homework packet during a family trip to North Carolina or he will spend the day with his father at a crossword puzzle tournament rather than riding roller coasters with his mother, sister, and friend Frankie.
Author
Series
Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself. She is soon joined...
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