Earth and Space News: Alcohol and Ativan Accessorize a Carving Knife in Presumed Puzzled

Summary: Alcohol and Ativan accessorize a carving knife and assure a fatal stabbing in Presumed Puzzled, 17th Puzzle Lady mystery authored by Parnell Hall.

Cora admits to making macaroni, which probably appeared nothing at all like the homemade buttered, cheesey macaroni that Sherry achieves from a box and which probably looked and tasted homemade: Antilived, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Alcohol and Ativan accessorize a carving knife and assure a fatal stabbing with no defensive wounds in Presumed Puzzled, 17th Puzzle Lady mystery authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1944-Dec. 15, 2020).

National syndication of daily crossword columns, sudoku book royalties and television ad residuals from Granville Grains breakfast cereal bring Cora Felton financial security and nationwide respect. Cora never consumes Granville Grains and perhaps can be counted on to calculate correctly a seven-minute boil of water to cook macaroni from a store-bought box. She does not dart to Cushman’s Bake Shop for latte (from Latin lac, via Italian latte, “milk”) and scones or take seconds at home or elsewhere.

Cora enjoys, apart perhaps two exceptional days of eating ordered-in pizza in a motel room, delicious, nutritious edibles emanating from niece Sherry Carter Grant’s culinary expertise.

A dinner roast, like every dinner, functions as a friendly meal in front of the television set in the living room of Cora’s Bakerhaven-area, country-living prefab.

Sherry gives Aunt Cora, daughter Jennifer Carter Grant, husband Aaron Grant, herself and toy poodle Buddy veal-graced osso buco (from Italian osso, “bone” and buco, “hole”). Buddy and Jennifer have macaroni from a box, with butter and cheese, and everyone has asparagus, chicken, chicken curry and rice-like (per Cora) quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa). Grated store-bought Parmesan and melted shaved Reggiano cheeses respectively inspire ground beef-, guacamole-, lettuce-, tomato-inundated taco-shell and frozen microwaveable tortellini (from Italian tortellino, “cakelet, fritterlet) dinners.

A carving knife jumpstarts chicken, roast and veal dinners even as Ativan journeys down attorney Becky Baldwin’s throat with water, more judicious than Roger Martindale’s alcohol.

Unknown alcohol kindled a blood alcohol content of .09, above legal drunkenness at .08, and kept Roger from knowing how to keep away from his killer.

Luke Haslett, as Bakerhaven town drunk, liked little pints of cheap bourbon and left any location through which he lunged and lurched scent-loaded with stale whiskey. No alcohol makes Cora miss Bloody Mary or scotch even as New York Police Department (NYPD) Sergeant Crowley perhaps maintains a bourbon supply within hand’s reach. Chain smoking and latent alcoholism no longer nudge Cora into Becky’s non-smoking law office or, with the latter, to the Country Kitchen bar for numerous scotches.

Becky obtains optimal skinniness, slenderness, slimness, thinness and trimness by opting for a carving knife over a cake slicer and alcoholic drinks over anti-anxiety, tranquilizing Ativan.

The Country Kitchen bartender pours Becky, who prefers unspecified wine with her at-home dinners, scotch on the rocks and Cora Diet-only, rum-free virgin rum and Coke.

A cucumber-, radish-, red pepper- and romaine lettuce-tossed salad with homemade balsamic vinaigrette and some slices of leftover chicken perhaps qualify as a typical at-home dinner. Becky, minutes from downtown courtroom proceedings, relieves stress regarding a missing, then a murdered person by bottled scotch and shot glass in her desk’s bottom drawer. Adjournment, recess and testimony suggest scotch, sandwich and water to Becky, Judge Hobbs and Paula whereas Dairy Queen set-ups never suggest soft-serve ice cream to Cora.

Alcohol and Ativan traces, a carving knife, a cell phone and a life respectively tell when, how, why and who terminated Roger Martindale in Presumed Puzzled.

A closed Dairy Queen perhaps would have sent Cora all the way to Virginia for the largest, most chocolatey soft-serve ice cream ever: Famartin, 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.

Image credits:

A closed Dairy Queen perhaps would have sent Cora all the way to Virginia for the largest, most chocolatey soft-serve ice cream ever: Famartin, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2018-12-02_17_22_25_A_large_soft-serve_chocolate_ice_cream_cone_at_the_Dairy_Queen_along_Metrotech_Drive_in_Chantilly,_Fairfax_County,_Virginia.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.

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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.

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Hall, Parnell. 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

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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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