Alabama and New York Add to Bakerhaven Traffic in Dead Man’s Puzzle

Summary: Alabama and New York add to Bakerhaven traffic and allow three deaths in Dead Man’s Puzzle, 10th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall.

Herbert Overmeyer perhaps on his own angled his cabin between two awesome houses and tracts. His cabin appears nothing but awfully inside. So perhaps he posthumously averts acceptable estate sale prices because he humously avoided such awesomeness outside as attractively angled and arranged logs; Friday, Aug. 13, 2004, 13:18, image of log cabin corner: Pollinator, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Alabama and New York add to Bakerhaven traffic and allow three deaths in Dead Man’s Puzzle, 10th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Bakerhaven businesses on the town outskirts bring together born and bred Bakerhavenites such as Police Chief Dale Harper and Manhattan-born, Manhattan-bred Bakerhavenites such as Cora Felton. Car-friendly connections from New York, into Connecticut, to Bakerhaven close to Danbury call for such commercial constructions as Bakerhaven mall conveniently catering to city-limit, country-style motels. Fred Goldman, as possible Overmeyer heir, and Dennis Pride, as Cora’s ex-nephew-in-law and Sherry Carter Grant’s first husband, dwell in the same motel on Route 9.

Cindy Barrington, Harmon Overmeyer and Alan and Ellen Weston, as possible Overmeyer heirs, and George Brooks, as Overmeyer neighbor, end up at another four different motels.

The Crowley bed and breakfast, the Johnson and the Mercer subsequently furnish a room respectively to Harmon as possible Overmeyer heir, to George and to Snively.

Mall shoppers and motel lodgers go to the nearby Country Kitchen, whose bar gets as customers Cora and Dennis and whose restaurant gets as customer Harmon. Bakerhaven mall harbors among its Burger King and McDonald’s customers Cora and Fred, among its Starbucks customers Cora and among its Walmart customers Alan and Ellen. Cora, like Bakerhaven inhabitants, itinerates to the convenience store 15 minutes from the Carter/Felton/Grant residence and the gas station between Cushman’s Bake Shop and Holcomb Road.

Perhaps Harmon journeys the farthest of the six possible Overmeyer heirs, from San Antonio, Texas, to Bakerhaven, Connecticut, by way of Chicago and then New York.

Bakerhaven locals know the Brooks Colonial two-story, the Overmeyer cabin, then the Arlington house as the first residences after left-turning from Main Street onto Holcomb Road.

Possible Overmeyer heirs perhaps line up with Bakerhaven locals at Mary Cushman’s located near Bakerhaven Courthouse, Bakerhaven Police Station opposite Bakerhaven Library and Bakerhaven Town Hall. They meet Cora after 3:00 a.m. at the latter, whose parking lot Dale and Bakerhaven Police Officers mark as a murder scene for the third victim. They perhaps navigate downtown Bakerhaven’s side streets for the pizza parlor below attorney Becky Baldwin’s one-room Baldwin Law Office and town outskirts for the Chinese takeout.

Possible Overmeyer acquaintances and heirs from Alabama, New York and Texas, like librarian Edith Potter’s son Jimmy and takeout deliverers operating bicycles, never obstruct Bakerhaven traffic.

Cindy and Fred perhaps pursue peregrinations as pressured as Jimmy pedaling around photographing possible heirs, passing Cora’s disposable camera to Fotomart and presenting Cora Fotomart-processed prints.

Perhaps Dennis questioning George quitting work for the Times Square subway to Greenwich Village’s Sheridan Square, 10th and 4th Streets and Charles Street quickens similar pressures. Internet technology results in burned-down Rawley’s Hardware and Sporting Goods and closed Mobile police records not requiring Cora and Dale physically in West Virginia and Alabama. The Bakerhaven High School science teacher sending a technical assistant who situates everything in computer settings and a stock-pooling agreements never stop Cora solving three murders.

Perhaps Bakerhaven Hospital Morgue transfers Herbert Overmeyer to Kelly’s Funeral Home before Cora’s Masai Mara-honeymooning housemates tackle New York, then Bakerhaven traffic in Dead Man’s Puzzle.

Nephew-in-law Aaron Grant and wife Sherry Carter Grant absent themselves from number puzzle lady Cora Felton's adopted hometown of Bakerhaven, Connecticut, for a two-week honeymoon in Kenya. They are there to appreciate African wildlife and to attest to the annual adventures of the blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus); Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, 10:02:39, image of wildebeest during annual Great Migration across ecosystems of Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (Uspn), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, 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:

Herbert Overmeyer perhaps on his own angled his cabin between two awesome houses and tracts. His cabin appears nothing but awfully inside. So perhaps he posthumously averts acceptable estate sale prices because he humously avoided such awesomeness outside as attractively angled and arranged logs; Friday, Aug. 13, 2004, 13:18, image of log cabin corner: Pollinator, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cabin_corner_8053.JPG

Nephew-in-law Aaron Grant and wife Sherry Carter Grant absent themselves from number puzzle lady Cora Felton's adopted hometown of Bakerhaven, Connecticut, for a two-week honeymoon in Kenya. They are there to appreciate African wildlife and to attest to the annual adventures of the blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus); Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, 10:02:39, image of wildebeest during annual Great Migration across ecosystems of Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (Uspn), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildebeest-during-Great-Migration.JPG

For further information:

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