Earth and Space News: Bakerhaven Maps Aim a Victim at a Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On

Summary: Bakerhaven maps aim a victim at a birthday bash And a Puzzle to Die On and, amplified by Danbury and New Haven maps, a perpetrator at a second casualty.

Bakerhaven maps aim a victim at a birthday bash And a Puzzle to Die On and, amplified by Danbury and New Haven maps, a perpetrator, despite a witness, at a second casualty.

Main Street binds town businesses such as Cushman’s Bake Shop to such other respectively downtown and side-street buildings as the town hall and the Bakerhaven Gazette. It conveniences Sherry Carter commuting to nursery-school substitute-teaching two to three times monthly straight back to country living with aunt, housemate and Puzzle Lady Cora Felton. It deposits clients such as Darryl Daigue’s sister and private investigators such as Cora Felton at attorney Becky Baldwin’s one-room office above the side-street pizza parlor.

Main Street clients, customers and patrons emanate from town enterprises and government even as the Route 9 diner and Kingman Grove icehouse entertained burger-eating, milkshake-enticed students.

Side streets from Main Street function friendlier than 1.5 hours of back roads with 25- to 50-mile (40.23- to 80.47-kilometer) hourly speeds to Brandon State Penitentiary.

Wicker Basket restaurant, perhaps accessible from back-road gallivanting and to a country rental and from and to law offices, gets Cora and Becky as lunch guests. Town roads and streets head Cora from her home to the Bakerhaven police station on Main Street and from her home to the Danbury police station. A hill-bottom, right-turning curve impelling Bakerhaven-born, Danbury-residing 43-year-old Ricky Gleason’s blue Chevy into a huge oak inconveniences even Danbury police cars eastbound on Red Oak Road.

Cora perhaps journeys to Danbury medical examiner offices as she journeyed to the state penitentiary and to Danbury police, with MapQuest, without Danbury or Bakerhaven maps.

Perhaps Cora by now knows her way without MapQuest to Bakerhaven library from offices kept by Dr. Jenkins across from metered parking, down from a newsstand.

MapQuest lets Cora leave her home for Danbury city limits, where a right turn after three stoplights leads her to house number 8, then number 12. The two-story colonial mansion of Ida Blaine and her industrialist husband Quentin Hawes manifests behind a tall hedge trimmed to maintain privacy on a well-lighted street. It nestles, nicely distanced from its neighbors, amid a manicured, spacious lawn and behind a horseshoe drive whose surface niches a Ferrari near the front door.

Perhaps Bakerhaven maps, MapQuest and New Haven maps orient Cora to a truck-stop diner where Stacy Daigue, third-floor walk-up occupant down the road, obtains counter-girl hours.

Danbury-proficient Cora peregrinates to Burnside Private Investigators, 316 Main Street, Room 204,; the Valerie Thompkins residence, 325 Hickory Road; and the Peter Burnside suburban, third-floor walk-up.

Cora quests purebred toy poodle Buddy from Valerie’s neighbor, Cynthia Mayberry, and Best in Show video from Valerie’s quarters and thereby qualifies for Danbury jail overnight. She never researches where Gwendolyn Dryer resided in Boulder, Colorado, even as she relates brother Jason Dryer’s New York City residence to a disreputable, single-room-occupancy hotel. She never shares site specifics about Carlyle Kennel sheltering homeless, orphaned Buddy or the Danbury courthouse where Judge Trilling saw no probable cause for dog-napping sentences.

Cindy Tambourine’s brother Kenneth perhaps thinks first about terminating Darryl Daigue, then about Danbury and Bakerhaven maps and MapQuest for escape routes from Brandon State Penitentiary.

Cora Felton advances into digital, virtual areas thanks to housemate and niece Sherry Carter's personal computer. She amplifies her acquaintance with digital, virtual applications by availing herself of MapQest online web mapping services instead of the physical maps available during her pre-Bakerhaven years in the 20th century; Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, 13:37, image of web map app in smartphone: Santeri Viinamäki, 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.

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Icehouses are less unassuming in the architecture imaged in 1846 for The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste than the icehouse appearing in the Parnell Hall-authored mystery novel And a Puzzle to Die On. The Bakerhaven-area icehouse appealed to youngsters avid for woods-shaded romancing after diner burgers and milkshakes. The Kingman Grove icehouse adjacent to the Route 9 diner attracted a perpetrator, whose aggression afforded him a life sentence, and a victim, whose death affected Bakerhaven acquaintances for 20 years; The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste (February 1846), page 47: Internet Archive Book Images, Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14595149747/; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/horticulturistjo2166alba/page/n47/mode/1up; No known copyright restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Horticulturist_and_journal_of_rural_art_and_rural_taste_(1866)_(14595149747).jpg

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Bakerhaven Maps Aim a Victim at a Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On

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