You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled Alerts Us About Bakerhaven Trains

Summary: You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled, Parnell Hall’s 8th Puzzle Lady series mystery, alerts us about such big-city, small-town access as Bakerhaven trains.

Benny Southstreet accesses New York from his rental in New Jersey by the Hoboken terminal of the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) transit line. He arrives in New York City to accumulate on-the-spot cash, with neither advances nor royalties, for his crossword puzzles, from which he assures his gambling addiction through Aqueduct bookie Frankie "The Shirt" Finklestein; Saturday, June 5, 2004, 18:12, image of Hoboken Terminal: LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled, 8th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31 1934-Dec. 15, 2020), alerts us about such big-city, small-town access as Bakerhaven trains.

His puzzle, My Bad, in 100 Crossword Puzzles for All Occasions brings Benny Southstreet from New York City to Bakerhaven by leased, owned or rented car. Dennis Pride, Sherry Carter’s first husband and then Brenda Wallenstein’s first husband, commutes by personal car from New York City to the former’s Bakerhaven rental residence. Cora Felton and niece Sherry do not lock their doors so Dennis ducks into their hall closet during the former’s dialogue with Police Chief Dale Harper.

Dennis enters Becky Baldwin’s law office atop Bakerhaven pizza parlor during her appointment with Benny about the latter’s plagiarism suit against Granville Grains-sponsored puzzle lady Cora.

Aqueduct bookie Frankie “The Shirt” Finklestein and Astroturf Publishing editor Wally Embers never figure among New Yorkers whom Dennis finds as Benny’s respective friends and foes.

Benny perhaps gutting a kitchen window and grabbing $5,000 from a study desktop guides Dennis to Chuck Dillinger, Hendricks and Sloane malpractice attorney on Madison Avenue. Benny houses himself in a rented room in Hoboken, New Jersey, and, to harass Cora and Wilbur’s Antiques namesake, Four Seasons Motel Unit 12 outside Bakerhaven. He invades cruciverbalist (from Latin crux, “cross” and verbum, “word”) Harvey Beerbaum’s dining room for rattan wicker-back chairs like those tarped in the Wilbur’s Antiques barn.

Benny journeys by PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) transit to New York and perhaps by Ford Taurus to Bakerhaven in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled.

Perhaps Benny knows, like Police Chief Dale Harper and Cora, Bakerhaven diner and, like Wilbur, Cushman’s Bake Shop breakfasts, Wicker Basket lunches and Country Kitchen dinners.

Perhaps Benny likes Bakerhaven mall, like Ned Browning’s Bakerhaven Gazette colleague Aaron Grant and Cora’s niece Sherry Carter, for its cinema and, like Wilbur, for Starbucks. Perhaps he misses Canine Cuts, whose personnel manicure Cora’s toy poodle Buddy, but mulls Photomart manned by Paul Fishman, who maintains a Bakerhaven or Bakerhaven-area apartment. Perhaps he notes, like Wilbur, Ace Hardware near Four Seasons Motel and, like Chuck and Dennis, the Elm Street convenience store and gas station pay phone.

Bakerhaven trains in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled offer Mimi the Dillinger car for Bakerhaven pharmacy medicines and far-side garage bender and tire work.

Perhaps Benny, unlike Cora and perhaps unlike Mimi, never parks proximitous to Bakerhaven library across the street from Bakerhaven Police Station and to Bakerhaven town hall.

Benny never queues up at the Sunoco service station just past Wilbur’s Antiques at the same time as Cora and perhaps not at any other time. He perhaps never realizes that Cora received $5.00 from Deputy Sheriff Claiborne for Danbury pistol range marksmanship or that puzzle constructor Harvey Beerbaum resides in Bakerhaven. Benny first sees Cora and Wilbur long after she sublet her 890 Park Avenue apartment and he shipped Daniel Farnsworth Cane Company chairs to Mount Vernon.

Big-city, small-town transport teams private and public transit even as You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled trumpets cars in-town and Bakerhaven trains and cars out-of-town.

Perhaps Benny Southstreet added car rental to his credit cards. Chambermaid Marge O'Connell agonizes over whether its leaser, owner or renter angled a Ford Taurus into the parking space allotted to Unit 12, where Benny abides, or the adjacent Unit 13 at Four Seasons Motel; Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 14:56, image of 2004-2006 Ford Taurus: IFCAR, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Benny Southstreet accesses New York from his rental in New Jersey by the Hoboken terminal of the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) transit line. He arrives in New York City to accumulate on-the-spot cash, with neither advances nor royalties, for his crossword puzzles, from which he assures his gambling addiction through Aqueduct bookie Frankie "The Shirt" Finklestein; Saturday, June 5, 2004, 18:12, image of Hoboken Terminal: LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PATH_Hoboken_entrance_3_vc.jpg

Perhaps Benny Southstreet added car rental to his credit cards. Chambermaid Marge O'Connell agonizes over whether its leaser, owner or renter angled a Ford Taurus into the parking space allotted to Unit 12, where Benny abides, or the adjacent Unit 13 at Four Seasons Motel; Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 14:56, image of 2004-2006 Ford Taurus: IFCAR, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2004-2006_Ford_Taurus_Sedan.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.

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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 May 2021. "One Knife, Two Deaths, Four Puzzles Aid in Stalking the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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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

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Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/four-cryptograms-assure-two-deaths-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 March 2021. "Honeyed Lemoned Teas Are For Fiancees in With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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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.
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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

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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

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