Bakerhaven Acquaintances Afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady

Summary: Bakerhaven acquaintances afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady, Cora Felton, to analyze who always or never associates with whom to apprehend a killer or two.

crossword puzzle answers by Stessily; sample American-style crossword grid created from OpenOffice.org Calc by MeekMark: MeekMark, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bakerhaven acquaintances, in their alliances and non-alliances, afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady, Cora Felton, to analyze who always or who never associates with whom to apprehend a killer or two.

Dana Phillips atop a Bakerhaven cemetery grave brings together Police Chief Dale Harper, Medical Examiner Barney Nathan and day-shift caretaker Fred Lloyd, not night-shift caretaker Huey. Chief Harper, as he crime-solves with Officers Sam Brogan and Dan Finley, communicates with County Prosecutor Henry Firth and perhaps, perhaps not, retired Chief Ed Hodges. He distances himself from Bakerhaven Gazette morning news reporter Aaron Grant perhaps less than from Channel 8 news reporter Rick Reed, driver Phil and cameraman Ernie.

Chief Harper expects expert examination of crime-engendered paper trails, such as The Graveyard Killer letters, from Mortimer Pinkham as Examiner of Questioned Documents in New Haven.

Ellen Harper’s husband and Clara Harper’s father finds Cora Felton and her housemate and niece Sherry Carter respectively fast, felicitous, firsthand, forceful crime- and crossword puzzle-solvers.

Cora goes to Country Kitchen bar and restaurant for bridge games with and town gossip from Iris Cooper, Lois Greely and Vicki Tanner and unspecified alcohol. She hesitates less over what she hears from New York attorney Stuart Tanner’s wife than from first selectman Cooper or general store owner Alan Greely’s wife. She ignores misinformation issuing from bake shop customers Anna Furst, town clerk Betty Dunwood, high school music teacher Sophie Singer, Lydia Wakefield and hairdresser Julia Weinstein.

Bakerhaven acquaintances such as Cushman’s Bake Shop proprietor Mary Cushman jeopardize judicious judgments perhaps far less than Roger Rimley jawing against the Bill Dodsworth-managed Bakerhaven Gazette.

Bakerhaven High graduate Mary Mason keying long breaks into keeping mail and telephones answered kindles summer-job money for fall-semester college more than keeping Aaron Grant knowledgeable.

Jimmy looking after reading-room materials and patrons for his librarian mother Edith Potter leads to more fall-semester college money for him, more knowledge for Aaron Grant. Moving around two-, three- and four-year-olds at the Rhodes nursery school perhaps makes Sherry less misinformed about bloodlines maintaining, mobilizing and motivating small-town mixes and non-mixes. Perhaps Marcy Granover (born Sep. 24, 1995?) and Matt Wilson (born July 8, 1996?) nestle into 20-year-nurtured nursery niches as neighborly, three-year-old relatives of Mrs. Rhodes.

Obscure and obvious obligations originating in overlapping bloodlines organize and orient cemetery occupancies and neighborhood occurrences of Bakerhaven acquaintainces in A Clue for the Puzzle Lady.

Perhaps brother-in-law status prompted placing Morton Pressman (died 1948) on one side of sepulchered Jonathan Klemper (died 1954), whose wife Emily (died 1958) permanentizes the other.

Both sides of the grave queuing Barbara Burnside (1961? 1962?-1984) into grave four row five qualify as quintessential quarters for her parents, Raymond and Laura Burnside. Daughter Vicki and son-in-law Stuart Tanner perhaps received the family residence from Mike Johnson, who ran Old Mill Inn and perhaps resides posthumously in Bakerhaven cemetery. Staying single, stuck in a well and surviving on used-car sales in Danbury perhaps suggest Bakerhavenites scorning Kevin Roth, an unnamed Pruett youngster and Billy Spires.

A Clue for the Puzzle Lady takes Sherry from temperamental ex-husband Dennis Pride and treacherous friend Brenda, toward such Bakerhaven acquaintances as typically small-town Aaron Grant.

Non-puzzle lady Cora Felton's Bridge Club meets at Bakerhaven's Country Kitchen; October 1974 image of bridge-playing New Ulm, Minnesota, senior high librarian and teacher photographed by David Rees (1943-), National Archives and Records Administration National Archives Identifier (NAID) 558227: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

crossword puzzle answers by Stessily; sample American-style crossword grid created from OpenOffice.org Calc by MeekMark: MeekMark, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_crossword.png

Non-puzzle lady Cora Felton's Bridge Club meets at Bakerhaven's Country Kitchen; October 1974 image of bridge-playing New Ulm, Minnesota, senior high librarian and teacher photographed by David Rees (1943-), National Archives and Records Administration National Archives Identifier (NAID) 558227: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_LIBRARIAN,_LEFT,_AND_A_TEACHER,_BOTH_EMPLOYEES_OF_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL_IN_NEW_ULM,_MINNESOTA._ARE_SEEN_PLAYING_BRIDGE..._-_NARA_-_558227.jpg

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