A Grid For Murder (31 page)
Authors: Casey Mayes
I might even get a puzzle or two finished while I was there.
Stranger things had happened.
I wasn’t exactly sure what the first puzzle would be, but I already had the snippet to accompany it written in my head.
Salvation sometimes comes from the strangest places. A friend can look like a foe, but in the end, the people we surround ourselves with are all that really matter in this life.
This puzzle is dedicated to Harry Pike, the man who saved my life, and to the memory of Joanne Clayton, who always wanted a puzzle of her very own.
Word and Math Puzzles
NAME THAT COZY WRITER
| Example: | AC | Agatha Christie |
| Initials: | Hints: |
| 1. LJB | Cats |
| 2. CH | Bookstore |
| 3. CM | Ag school |
| 4. TM | Penn Dutch |
| 5. MJ | More cats |
| 6. EDS | I forget |
| 7. LC | Tea for 2 |
| 8. JC | Chocoholic |
| 9. EF | Patterns |
| 10. EP | Egypt |
Answers:
1. Lilian Jackson Braun
2. Carolyn Hart
3. Charlotte MacLeod
4. Tamar Myers
5. Miranda James
6. Elizabeth Daniels Squire
7. Laura Childs
8. JoAnna Carl
9. Earlene Fowler
10. Elizabeth Peters
MYSTERY MOVIE TITLES
Example: NBN North by Northwest
Initials: Hints:
| 1. TMF | Golden bird |
| 2. TUS | Round them up |
| 3. C | Where? With what? |
| 4. TDVC | Symbols |
| 5. KTG | Alex angry? |
| 6. TSOTL | Shhhh!! |
| 7. MOTOE | Trains |
| 8. RW | Watching |
| 9. P | Mommy issues |
| 10. DMFM | Don’t answer |
Answers:
1. The Maltese Falcon
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Clue
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. Kiss the Girls
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. Murder on the Orient Express
8. Rear Window
9. Psycho
10. Dial M for Murder
WHAT’S YOUR SIGN?
(Fill in the missing mathematical signs. As an added bonus, try doing these in your head first.)
Example: 2__3=6 is 2x3=6
PUZZLE 1
1q. 8__5__8__6__3=5
PUZZLE 2
2q. 7__4__6__3__16__2__3=12
PUZZLE 3
3q. 11__22__3__3__5__4=10
SOLUTION 1
1a. 8+5 (13) + 8 (21) – 6 (15) ÷ 3=5
SOLUTION 2
2a. 7 – 4 (3) X 6 (18) X 3 (54) – 16 (38) – 2 (36) ÷ 3=12
SOLUTION 3
3a. 11+22 (33) ÷ 3 (11) – 3 (8) X 5 (40) ÷ 4=10
