And a Puzzle to Die On Augments Bakerhaven Acquaintances by One

Summary: And a Puzzle to Die On augments Bakerhaven acquaintances by a dog who apprehends a two-time killer and assures the Puzzle Lady of the best birthday ever.

An older purebred toy poodle answers to the name Buddy, appraises at $1,600 and assists in apprehending a two-time killer and in assembling evidence appropriate to correct analyses of a 20-year-old crime and attracts Puzzle Lady attention; toy poodle, International Dog Show Baltic Winner 2013; Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, 20:03: Томасина, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

And a Puzzle to Die On augments Bakerhaven acquaintances by a dog who apprehends a two-time killer and assures the Puzzle Lady, who appreciates animals more than acrostics, of bestest birthday ever.

Sherry Carter, after substitute nursery-school teaching, braves late-October, winter-boding winds with Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop fellow customers Iris Cooper, Aaron Grant, Dale Harper and Harvey Beerbaum. Aunt Cora Felton, commuter-less without their Toyota, contacts Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon, As the World Turns, Barnes and Noble and eBay websites and chat-room predator Ralph. Draconian diets distance attorney Becky Baldwin from downing pastries and drinking coffee with First Selectman Cooper, Bakerhazen Gazette reporter Grant, Police Chief Harper and cruciverbalist Beerbaum.

Becky employs Cora to establish whether Darryl Daigue enticed 17-year-old Anita Dryer into the Kingman Grove icehouse for dinner-break marijuana, rape and murder 20 years earlier.

Life sentence without parole in the fictitious Brandon State Penitentiary of north-central Connecticut followed a jury trial finding the burger and milkshake diner short-order cook guilty.

Darryl guessed at Ray Tucker, whose pickup window station gave diner waitresses their orders, and 20 years later at counter-boy Ricky Gleason going off with Anita. Sergeant Walpole, with Danbury police, and Dr. Jenkins, as Danbury medical examiner, have Ricky down as drunkenly, fatally hitting a curve-side tree on Red Oak Road. Ricky driving at 90-mile (144.84-kilometer) hourly speeds under influence of .125 blood alcohol levels Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 10 p.m. is misidentified as a traffic accident.

One Danbury acquaintance, black sedan-driving private investigator Peter Burnside, joins Cora’s 150-plus Bakerhaven acquaintances for her surprise birthday bash in Bakerhaven Library’s modern, skylighted, two-story addition.

Peter perhaps knows policeman Sam Brogan, Iris, Mary, Dale, Judge Hobbs, medical examiner Barney Nathan, not Harvey, Clara Harper or Knauer Realty realtor Judy Douglas Knauer.

Perhaps Jimmy, friend of Dale’s daughter Clara and son of librarian Edith and NFL (National Football League) fan Hal Potter, located library-lodged microfilm for Peter beforehand. Black sedan-driving Danbury resident Valerie Thompkins monitored Darryl, whom her used-car dealership-owning husband Marvin Fleckstein, monikered as lifer-researching A.E. Greenhouse, and sex-crimes writer Lester Moffatt met. Anita’s sister Gwendolyn and Darryl’s sister Stacy respectively nestled into Boulder, Colorado, and a third-floor apartment near counter-girl niches in a truck-stop diner outside New Haven.

Darryl occupying Brandon State Penitentiary overlaps with prison occupancies by such Bakerhaven acquaintances as Anita’s brother until Jason obtained parole and girlfriend Cindy Tambourine’s brother Kenneth.

Poaching Valerie’s purebred, $1,600-valued toy poodle from neighbor Cynthia Mayberry’s protective custody puts Cora in Danbury jail and Judge Trilling’s court and Buddy in Carlyle Kennel.

Industrialist Quentin Hawes’ wife Ida Blaine, Dr. Jenkins without his receptionist Margie, State Penitentiary Warden Prufrock and Pilgrim Publishing Editor Mason Westbourne queue among subpoenaed witnesses. Harvey regales Cora with Party Favor and A Puzzling Situation crosswords respectively realized by Sunday New York Times constructor Nancy Salomon and Cruciverb-L poster Manny Nosowsky. He sees to it that Sunday New York Times acrostics constructors and humorous crosswords constructor Cathy Millhauser, pseudonymed Hillary Mustache, respectively send Cora Acrostic and Misnomers.

Cora terms her first birthday bash with Bakerhaven acquaintances her best ever, thanks to Buddy and to Sherry, who, like Harvey, treasures acrostics and crosswords constructors.

One black sedan with a toy poodle and another black sedan without a canine passenger attracted Cora Felton's attention. Neither car appealed to Cora more than her red Toyota. The National Geographic magazine advertisement for the Dodge Brothers four-door sedan perhaps agrees with her because of the older dog, whose age well beyond puppy years perhaps acts against any dog shelter-goers adopting her/him, something Cora articulates about homeless, orphaned toy poodle Buddy: Infrogmation, 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.

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An older purebred toy poodle answers to the name Buddy, appraises at $1,600 and assists in apprehending a two-time killer and in assembling evidence appropriate to correct analyses of a 20-year-old crime and attracts Puzzle Lady attention; toy poodle, International Dog Show Baltic Winner 2013; Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, 20:03: Томасина, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toy_Poodle_in_Riga_3.JPG

One black sedan with a toy poodle and another black sedan without a canine passenger attracted Cora Felton's attention. Neither car appealed to Cora more than her red Toyota. The National Geographic magazine advertisement for the Dodge Brothers four-door sedan perhaps agrees with her because of the older dog, whose age well beyond puppy years perhaps acts against any dog shelter-goers adopting her/him, something Cora articulates about homeless, orphaned toy poodle Buddy: Infrogmation, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dodge4Door1920.jpg

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