Fifteen Million Dollars Avenge Old Wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament

Summary: Fifteen million dollars avenge old wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament, 2nd mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall.

Dartmouth College admitted into its undergraduate programs puzzle lady Cora Felton's niece Sherry Carter; subsequent possible Emma Prentice Hurley heir Daniel Hurley; Sherry's subsequent first husband, Dennis Pride; and Wallenstein Textiles heiress Brenda Wallenstein; A front view of Dartmouth College, with the Chapel, & Hall, by American educator and publisher Josiah Dunham (April 7, 1769-May 10, 1844), in Massachusetts Magazine, or Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, vol. V, no. II (February 1793): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fifteen million dollars awarded in a will reading avenge old wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament, 2nd mystery in the Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

His wife bore Evan Hurley four children, of whom Chester and Emma never became spouses or parents and Alicia became single, unmarried parent of Annabel Hurley. A car crash cut short the family life of Randolph Hurley with wife Jean and their three young children, son Jason and twins Philip and Phyllis. Jason and his wife, parents of one child, son Daniel Hurley, died respectively two (1998?) and four (1996?) years before the Emma Prentice Hurley will reading.

Philip and Phyllis embrace issueless marriages to Ethel and to Morty Applegate even as Daniel, acquaintance of puzzle lady Cora Felton’s niece Sherry Carter, enjoys bachelorhood.

Arthur Kincaid, as only Bakerhaven attorney, finesses Hurley wills, from cancer fatality Evan Hurley’s will 40 years earlier (in 1960?) to Emma’s current-year will (in 2000?).

Becky Baldwin, Bakerhaven Gazette reporter Aaron Grant’s high school sweetheart and recent law school graduate, gets retained by town drunk Jim Beasley and murder suspect Daniel. A crossword-puzzle competition hides clues in Judge Hobbs’ courthouse, Betty Roston’s post office, Ray and Minnie Wishburn’s laundromat, Mabel Drake’s store and Vince’s Cedar Grove Greenhouse. Daniel, Philip and wife Ethel and Phyllis and husband Morty Applegate respectively intercept Becky, crossword-puzzle constructor Harvey Beerbaum and librarian Edith Potter’s son Jimmy for answers.

Fifteen million dollars jeopardize three lives in Last Puzzle and Testament as puzzle lady Cora Felton judges five clues and another six in the Hurley mansion.

The Emma Hurley will respectively keeps aside $500, $10,000 and $50,000 for Kevin Holbrook as yard worker, Mildred Sims as housekeeper and Cora as puzzle constructor.

Emma leaves aside $40,000, listed as $10,000 each to whatever four heirs of her five relatives lose the puzzle competition and $15 million to its winner. Marcus Gelman, Judy’s husband and banker perhaps at the Bakerhaven Savings & Loan with whom Emma maintained two accounts, monitors Emma’s safety deposit box and key. One drawer in the writing desk in Emma’s bedroom niches a statement noting $460,000 in her Bakerhaven Savings & Loan checking and $500,000-plus in savings there.

Fifteen million dollars operate against old wrongs even as they occasion two deaths by blunt objects and one death by gunshot in Last Puzzle and Testament.

Police Chief Dale Harper and Police Officers Sam Brogan and Dan Finley pursue proper procedure, be it Ira Simpson’s speeding ticket or Harvey’s blunt object-packing assailant.

A drainage ditch, a second-floor apartment and somewhere outside county courthouse quarter three victims for Dr. Barney Nathan and Henry Firth to quest cause and perpetrators. Bakerhavenite youths Abby and Jesse Goldfarb returning home from a sleepover at the Olsen family residence regard one heir relinquishing something blood-stained near Bakerhaven paper mill. Channel 8 reporter Rick Reed and First Selectman Iris Cooper, Amy Cox and store co-owner/operator Lois Greely see Hurley heirs at Wicker Basket and Country Kitchen.

Fifteen million dollars treat old wrongs and trigger tension among five heirs, thankfulness among two heirs and trouble for four people in Last Puzzle and Testament.

Hurley heirs abuse one another verbally if not physically over $15 million. Puzzle lady Cora Felton contrastingly achieves an interview for a feature article and photo spread with People magazine staff. That exposure potentially allies with the billions of dollars associated with InterActiveCorp (IAC) holding company for Dotdash Meredith, publisher of the celebrity news and human-interest weekly magazine; Friday, Sep 19, 2008, 18:18, image of InterActiveCorp (IAC) headquarters, New York City: ~~×α£đ~~es (XalD), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, 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:

Dartmouth College admitted into its undergraduate programs puzzle lady Cora Felton's niece Sherry Carter; subsequent possible Emma Prentice Hurley heir Daniel Hurley; Sherry's subsequent first husband, Dennis Pride; and Wallenstein Textiles heiress Brenda Wallenstein; A front view of Dartmouth College, with the Chapel, & Hall, by American educator and publisher Josiah Dunham (April 7, 1769-May 10, 1844), in Massachusetts Magazine, or Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, vol. V, no. II (February 1793): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Dartmouth_Dunham.jpg

Hurley heirs abuse one another verbally if not physically over $15 million. Puzzle lady Cora Felton contrastingly achieves an interview for a feature article and photo spread with People magazine staff. That exposure potentially allies with the billions of dollars associated with InterActiveCorp (IAC) holding company for Dotdash Meredith, publisher of the celebrity news and human-interest weekly magazine; Friday, Sep 19, 2008, 18:18, image of InterActiveCorp (IAC) headquarters, New York City: ~~×α£đ~~es (XalD), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edificio_IAC_InterActiveCorp.JPG

For further information:

Hall, Parnell. 2019. Lights! Camera! Puzzles! New York NY; London UK: Pegasus Crime.

Hall, Parnell. 2018. The Purloined Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2017. A Puzzle To Be Named Later. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2016. Presumed Puzzled. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2015. Puzzled Indemnity. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2014. NYPD Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2013. Arsenic and Old Puzzles. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2012. $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2011. The Kenken Killings. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2010. The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2009. Dead Man's Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book for Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2008. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders. New York NY: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Minotaur, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2005. Stalking the Puzzle Lady. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2004. And a Puzzle to Die On. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2003. With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2002. A Puzzle in a Pear Tree. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2001. Puzzled to Death. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2000. Last Puzzle & Testament. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 1999. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 January 2021. "Chicken Soup Awes All But Appears Nowhere in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/chicken-soup-awes-all-but-appears.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 January 2021. "Interstate Highways Add More Hurley Heirs to Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/interstate-highways-add-more-hurley.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 December 2020. "Bakerhaven Acquaintances Afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/bakerhaven-acquaintances-afford-clue.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 December 2020. "Bakerhaven Alcohol Acts as A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/bakerhaven-alcohol-acts-as-clue-for.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 December 2020. "An Actual Bakerhaven Map Never Appears as A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-actual-bakerhaven-map-never-appears.html

"Puzzle Lady." Parnell Hall.com > Books. Website by Kate Anchev/Outbox Online Design Studio.
Available @ http://parnellhall.com/puzzle-lady/