Criminal Finds

Description

A box arrives at a detective’s office. No name. No return address. Inside: one hundred murder cases, and two words on the lid. SOLVE ME.

Somebody built these cases by hand: suspects, weapons, motives, locations, alibis. Every answer is hiding in the grid, except one. The killer’s alibi is a lie, and it isn’t in the grid at all.

This is a word search where the words solve the case:

• 100 murder cases, one page each, every one self-contained
• One grid and 22 words per case, in five groups: suspects, weapons, motives, locations and alibis
• The word you find twice is the answer: killer, weapon, motive and location, all hiding in plain sight
• One alibi on every list is the killer’s lie, so it isn’t in the grid, and ruling out the rest exposes it
• A hidden message dealt across all 100 cases, letter by letter, that can only be solved once the last case is closed
• Difficulty 2 of 4: words run across, down, backwards and up, and diagonally down both ways
• Full solutions included at the back of the book

For anyone who likes a murder mystery they solve themselves, in the time it takes to drink a coffee. For word search solvers who want the words to mean something once they’re found. If you closed the first book, this one fights back a little. If you didn’t, no matter: every book stands alone.

A murder mystery word search puzzle book for adults.

The box is on your desk now. A hundred cases, a hundred killers, and one person who went to a lot of trouble to make sure you got them. Find out why.