New Yorkers Adapt to Less Light and More Parking in Puzzled to Death

Summary: New Yorkers adapt to less light and more parking when they are in Bakerhaven in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall.

Puzzle lady Cora Felton advances the National Children's Placement Fund as the charity accepting money accumulated at her and crossword-puzzle constructor and solver Harvey Beerbaum's Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament. A flyer outside a D'Agostino store in the family-owned chain advises her of the charity advocating for underprivileged children; February 1950 image of grand opening of D'Agostino Brothers store on East 20th Street, near East River, Manhattan, New York City: Stephenrobberts, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

New Yorkers adapt to less light and more parking when they are in Bakerhaven in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in Parnell Hall’s (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020) 20-book Puzzle Lady series.

Crossword-puzzle constructor Harvey Beerbaum’s backyard barbecue September (2001?) boasts as tournament-competing New Yorkers Craig Carmichael, Ned Doowacker, Don Hinkle, Beverly Platt, Paul Thornhill and Zelda Zisk. Craig, Ned and Paul then congregate at Rainbow Room, 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) out on Jackson Road, in Clarksonville, with locals Charlotte Drake and Judy Vale. Harvey designates, at a special meeting in Bakerhaven Town Hall, Craig, Paul and Zelda celebrity competitors in the first Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament two months later.

Tournament committee members expect to earn $10,000 from 100 hundred-dollar tickets the weekend of Dec. 5 (2001?) for the National Children’s Placement Fund for underprivileged children.

One fatality figured before, and two fatalities figure after, five selectmen fit registration, Fun Night and seven-puzzle competitions into Bakerhaven Town Hall flanking Bakerhaven County Courthouse.

Twenty-eight-year-old Judy Vale of 23 Barlow Street goes to Rainbow Room with her husband Joey, a Danbury tool-and-die factory worker, but gets strangled in her kitchen. Barlow numbers 7 through 46 huddle Charlotte Drake and husband, Betty Felson and husband and widowed Felicity Roth between power lines leftward and railroad tracks rightward. Barlow is 10 minutes from Rainbow Room, which is father from Bakerhaven Town Hall than Mosely Funeral Home on Sunset Drive and the town-edge service station.

Three neighbors jeopardized Bakerhavenites and New Yorkers journeying to less light light on Judy’s porch and more parking on the four-house block in Puzzled to Death.

Bakerhaven Police Station down Main Street keeps Joey from Fun Night and Fun Night attendee, paper mill bookkeeper, Rainbow Room drinker Billy Pickens’ wife and daughters.

Billy and Sara respectively leave their yellow frame 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) from town for the Carter/Felton residence, movies and pizza and for the mall supermarket. Puzzle ladies Cora Felton and Sherry Carter maintain one-acre (0.41-hectare) residency three miles (4.83 kilometers) from town, farther from Bakerhaven Gazette than the all-night, highway-straddling diner. They navigate to North Lake hiker and service-station mechanic Marty Haskel’s green-shuttered yellow-frame, with breezeway and garage, two miles (3.22 kilometers) out, at 232 Arbor Drive.

More parking without less light perhaps respectively orient New Yorkers Ned Doowacker and Zelda Zisk to Elsie Dixon’s and gingerbread house-styled occupancies in Puzzled to Death.

Attorney Becky Baldwin patronizes Country Kitchen, not Bakerhaven pizza parlor below her office, from her Fort Lauderdale-wintering, retired parents’ place, which never puts up bed-and-breakfast people.

Perhaps Olsens’ three-story Colonial, from whence Paul and Jessica quest liquor-store brandy and a Danbury rental car, three blocks from town center qualifies as bed-and-breakfast quintessence. Perhaps the Danbury rental runs Jessica to Bakerhaven bank, Bakerhaven library, Clarksonville racket club, Cushman’s Bake Shop or New York lawyers and undertakers the suspended-tournament day. Perhaps New York lawyer Roger Winnington serves Jessica and Craig, who sneaks into Harvey’s gingerbread-styled house from some bed-and-breakfast suite and swills Country Kitchen mixed drinks.

Perhaps Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament triggers more not less light than D’Agostino’s, which tolerated National Children’s Placement Fund pamphleteers, and more parking in Puzzled to Death.

Bakerhaven Power lines and railroad tracks respectively on the left and the right affirm Barlow Street as an undesirable area of small-town Bakerhaven; Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, 16:25, image of railroads in Connecticut: Leamsii, CC BY SA 4.0 International, 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:

Puzzle lady Cora Felton advances the National Children's Placement Fund as the charity accepting money accumulated at her and crossword-puzzle constructor and solver Harvey Beerbaum's Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament. A flyer outside a D'Agostino store in the family-owned chain advises her of the charity advocating for underprivileged children; February 1950 image of grand opening of D'Agostino Brothers store on East 20th Street, near East River, Manhattan, New York City: Stephenrobberts, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Opening_20th_Street.jpg

Bakerhaven Power lines and railroad tracks respectively on the left and the right affirm Barlow Street as an undesirable area of small-town Bakerhaven; Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, 16:25, image of railroads in Connecticut: Leamsii, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CT_Railroads.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.

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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.

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"Puzzle Lady." Parnell Hall.com > Books. Website by Kate Anchev/Outbox Online Design Studio.
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