Earth and Space News: Starbucks Caramel Adds Acuity in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled

Summary: Starbucks caramel Frappuccino adds acuity in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled, 8th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall.

Cora acknowledges Starbucks caramel as a bit more awesome than caramel-, cherry-, coconut-centered chocolates in Whitman's Sampler. She acquires a caramel frappuccino with whipped cream in the 20-ounce (0.59-liter) size from the Bakerhaven mall-addressed Starbucks. She appreciates all caramel appearances in all Starbucks drinks, be they advertised as caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream or as caramel flan frappuccino; Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, image of Starbucks caramel flan frappuccino: theimpusivebuy, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Starbucks caramel Frappuccino adds 20 ounces of acuity in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled, 8th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Number puzzle lady Cora Felton bespatters her beloved smock with beloved essential food groups: butter, guacamole, hot fudge, ice cream, maple syrup, marshmallows and onion dip. She no longer considers among compulsory comestibles alcoholic concoctions, whose consumption, as scotch, attorney Chuck Dillinger chooses to combat a compromised career and a crying child. Her business partner and niece Sherry Carter dislikes alcoholic drinks even as the latter’s boyfriend, Bakerhaven Gazette reporter Aaron Grant drinks dinner wine during their dates.

Sherry exempts herself from blue cheese and dinner wine, which Aaron enjoys with the salad bar, before they embark on their unelucidated dinner at Country Kitchen.

Sherry furnishes Aaron and Cora with fetching, filling, non-fattening food even as, in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled, she focuses upon automatic-drip coffeemaker coffee.

Cora garnishes her coffee with generous milk and sugar at Bakerhaven diner with Police Chief Dale Harper, Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop and the Carter/Felton kitchen table. Dale, unlike Cora, handles coffee as horrible as at Bakerhaven diner, with harsh lighting and hideous tabletops, when he has station coffee from the department urn. Cora inveighs against hot and iced teas, which impress her no more than ground oak (Quercus) leaves, even as she indulges, albeit inimically, in the former.

Cora jubilates with Cushman coffee and latte, Sherry’s perhaps gourmet-like coffee, Starbucks caramel Frappuccino and Whitman’s Sampler chocolates in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled.

Cruciverbalist (from Latin crux, “cross” and verbum, “word”) Harvey Beerbaum and the namesake owner-operator of Wilbur’s Antiques know how to key Cora into albeit temporary tea-drinking.

Leaving the Wilbur’s Antiques Barn still living and lacking two bullets in her head leads Cora not to lament hot tea, which she likes to loathe. Previously, Harvey makes orange-flavored tea from his Heinz 57 collection, some of whose teas he mentions as chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile), Earl Grey, Lemon Zinger and Sleepytime. Cora notes no coffee when Wilbur navigates Bakerhaven morning, noon and evening traffic for Cushman muffins and scones, Wicker Basket lunches and Country Kitchen restaurant dinners.

Cappuccino with apricot scone or skim latte with cranberry scone offers Cora less acuity than Starbucks caramel Frappuccino in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled.

Perhaps coffee with blueberry muffin or double skim mocha latte (from Latin lac, via Italian latte, “milk”) with chocolate croissant propel Chuck’s wife Mimi and Harvey.

One pepper and sausage pizza slice, perhaps with garlic and onions, qualifies as the only food that Benny Southstreet, attorney Becky Baldwin’s first plagiarism-suit plaintiff, quests. Becky and Cora respectively relish chopped salad and pastrami rye as takeout perhaps from Wicker Basket, not from Bakerhaven pizza parlor below the former’s law office. Cora sees caramel-, not cherry- or coconut-centered Whitman’s Sampler chocolates and tuna fish on dog kibble as respective special treats for herself and toy poodle Buddy Felton.

Starbucks caramel Frappuccino (from French frappé, “milkshake” and Italian cappuccino, “brown-red [Capuchin monk hoodlet]”) nevertheless triggers crime-solving thinking in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled.

An admirer arranges June 6, 1952, for eight rattan wicker-back chairs to arrive at his admiree's family residence in Mount Vernon, New York. Fify-plus years later four such chairs are associated with attempted murder, murder and theft. Perhaps instead arranging a Whitman's sampler for arrival Feb. 14, 1952, assures less aggressive, more amicable aftereffects in the 20th and the 21st centuries; Stephen F. Whitman & Son, Inc., ad for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1952, featured British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (Feb. 27, 1932-March 23, 2011): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Image credits:

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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.

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Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/05/you-have-right-to-remain-puzzled-alerts.html

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Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/granville-grains-corn-toasties-appall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 April 2021. "Granville Grains Corn Toasties Appall Cora in Stalking the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/granville-grains-corn-toasties-appall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 April 2021. "Coastal Connecticut Attracts Reality Ads in Stalking the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/coastal-connecticut-attracts-reality.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 April 2021. "And a Puzzle to Die On Augments Bakerhaven Acquaintances by One." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/and-puzzle-to-die-on-augments.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 April 2021. "A Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On Await Cora and an Outsider." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-birthday-bash-and-puzzle-to-die-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 March 2021. "Bakerhaven Maps Aim a Victim at a Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/bakerhaven-maps-aim-victim-at-birthday.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 March 2021. "Four Cryptograms Assure Two Deaths in With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 16 March 2021. "Honeyed Lemoned Teas Are For Fiancees in With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/honeyed-lemoned-teas-are-for-fiancees.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 March 2021. "Manhattan and San Diego Account For Why With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/manhattan-and-san-diego-account-for-why.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 March 2021. "Christmas Carolers Are Three Voices Short in A Puzzle in a Pear Tree." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/christmas-carolers-are-three-voices.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 February 2021. "A Puzzle in a Pear Tree Alters a Christmas Pageant and a Live Nativity." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-puzzle-in-pear-tree-alters-christmas.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 February 2021. "Tristate Access Adds a Broadway Director to A Puzzle in a Pear Tree." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/tristate-access-adds-broadway-director.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 February 2021. "Attorney Becky Baldwin Maybe Aces New York Lawyers in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/attorney-becky-baldwin-maybe-aces-new.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 February 2021. "Perhaps Fun Night Attendees Ate All Free Desserts in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/perhaps-fun-night-attendees-ate-all.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 January 2021. "New Yorkers Adapt to Less Light and More Parking in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 January 2021. "Fifteen Million Dollars Avenge Old Wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 12 January 2021. "Chicken Soup Awes All But Appears Nowhere in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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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

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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/

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Starbucks Caramel Adds Acuity in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled

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