Earth and Space News: Cora’s Tales Are Maybe Truer Than Melvin’s in Lights! Camera! Puzzles!

Summary: Cora’s tales are maybe truer than Melvin’s in Lights! Camera! Puzzles! as 20th mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall.

Puzzle lady Cora Felton's drawstring purse accommodates many items. Perhaps among her mementoes in her ever-present bag are the six to seven series of engagement and wedding rings that attest to her acquiring six to seven husbands and ex-husbands; Oct. 2, 2004, image of white gold wedding ring and six-prong Tiffany mount, single diamond, gold engagement ring: Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY SA 2.5 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Cora’s tales are maybe, maybe not truer than Melvin’s stories in Lights! Camera! Puzzles! as 20th mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Puzzle lady Cora Felton brings her six to seven ex-husbands into non-related and related banter with adopted, cradle and sojourning Connecticuters, especially Bakerhavenites, and New Yorkers. She officially considers her ex-husbands but unofficially counts other women’s married or separated husbands, such as Dr. Barney Nathan and New York Police Department Sergeant Crowley. She discusses Frank, Henry and Melvin more than Arthur, Jerry and Larry even as she perhaps desired most unmarried boyfriend Randy and fiancé Raymond Harstein III.

Cora enumerates Jerry as first husband, first ex-husband and only husband to encourage her to end her alcoholism by establishing orange juice as deterrent and remedy.

Arthur figures as Cora’s second husband and second ex-husband, as her only husband firmly against, not fine about, her exhibitionist, exquisite, red, satin, short, tight dress.

Henry gets gauged as second or fourth husband and ex-husband, with the latter granting Jerry and Arthur first and second spousal iterations and Frank third iteration. Cora hails Frank or Henry as one or the other holding the Jewish faith but having a church, white-wedding ceremony and handling trimming her Christmas trees. She inveighs against Henry introducing her to international travel to such interesting locales as romantic France’s Eiffel Tower and then itinerating to everywhere else without her.

Cora joking and jousting with her ex-husbands in misjudged orders of marital succession perhaps jeopardizes her truer tales less than untruer stories in Lights! Camera! Puzzles!

Divorce proceedings against cowboy-like, poker-playing Henry and his El Pasoite corespondent kindles Cora keeping her second or fourth husband’s horse, house and 10-gallon (37.85-liter) Stetson hat.

Cora links Henry letting a lovely maid into their household to their divorce even as she lauds her husbands not loading her with housekeeping and laundry. She mentions as Yale University graduate her third husband and ex-husband, whom she monikers Frank, even as it may be Henry, third after Jerry and Arthur. Frank nestled them into mystery-solving weekends with actors nursing their audiences through crime-solving clues even as Cora and Frank respectively netted stolen diamond earrings and corespondents.

Cora not observing where in the marital order Larry occurs perhaps occasions no more objections to her true tales than her untruer in Lights! Camera! Puzzles!

Niece Sherry Carter Grant presents Larry, who perhaps places as fifth husband and ex-husband, as only possibly pleasant and pleasing of all Cora’s spouses and ex-spouses.

Cora, who successfully quested an annulment the day after her marriage to Larry, still married to his still-living wife, quantifies Melvin as fifth husband and ex-husband. Melvin Crabtree represented himself as rich, unlike Cora’s other really rich husbands, and unmarried even as he received his third of eight divorces six months later. He sabotages their honeymoon by seducing a New York nightclub cocktail waitress and their marriage even as he shows Cora how to collect antiques and shoot.

Melvin two-timing eighth wife, Evelyn Anne Miller, with Bambi tends to tally his stories as untruer and Cora’s stories as truer tales for Lights! Camera! Puzzles!

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Puzzle lady Cora Felton appreciates the engagement ring by which she and hotel owner Raymond Harstein III announce their marital aspirations. The beautiful diamond attracts her because of its size, perhaps quite dwarfed by those of the world-largest Cullinan Diamond; nine major stones cut from Cullinan diamond, Joseph Asscher's The Cullinan (1908), plate IX: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cullinan_major_diamonds.jpg; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/TheCullinan/page/n24/mode/1up

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.

Hall, Parnell. 1999. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 January 2022. "Cora Acts as Cora So Becky Acts as Becky in Lights! Camera! Puzzles!." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/01/cora-acts-as-cora-so-becky-acts-as.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2022. "Dark Sedans Announce Ulterior Agendas for Lights! Camera! Puzzles!." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/01/dark-sedans-announce-ulterior-agendas.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2022. "A Bad Book and a Good Dress Size Await Cora in The Purloined Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-bad-book-and-good-dress-size-await.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2022. "A Thinner Cora Adores Scones More Than Alcohol in The Purloined Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-thinner-cora-adores-scones-more-than.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2021. "The Purloined Puzzle Affects Bakerhaven Motel and Colson Road." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-purloined-puzzle-affects-bakerhaven.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2021. "All But One Admire Yankee Baseball in A Puzzle To Be Named Later." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/12/all-but-one-admire-yankee-baseball-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2021. "Diet Coke Accounts for Cora in Swimwear in A Puzzle To Be Named Later." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/12/diet-coke-accounts-for-cora-in-swimwear.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 December 2021. "Knauer Realty Arranges Property Rentals in A Puzzle To Be Named Later." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/12/knauer-realty-arranges-property-rentals.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 November 2021. "A Renter Less Affects An Only Bakerhaven Realtor in Presumed Puzzled." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-renter-less-affects-only-bakerhaven.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 November 2021. "Alcohol and Ativan Accessorize a Carving Knife in Presumed Puzzled." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/alcohol-and-ativan-accessorize-carving.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 November 2021. "Bakerhaven Maps Advance or Avoid Glenwood Street With Presumed Puzzled." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/bakerhaven-maps-advance-or-avoid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 November 2021. "Becky Appears Thinner, Younger Than All But Two in Puzzled Indemnity." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/becky-appears-thinner-younger-than-all.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 November 2021. "California Buns Appease Cora More Than Cigarettes in Puzzled Indemnity." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/california-buns-appease-cora-more-than.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 October 2021. "Bakerhaven Maps Perhaps Add Parking Alerts Since Puzzled Indemnity." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/10/bakerhaven-maps-perhaps-add-parking.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 October 2021. "Bakerhaven Acquaintances in NYPD Puzzle Are One Less for 2020 Censuses." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/10/bakerhaven-acquaintances-in-nypd-puzzle.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 October 2021. "A Killer Perhaps Abhors or Adores New York Coffee in NYPD Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-killer-perhaps-abhors-or-adores-new.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 October 2021. "New York and Bakerhaven Maps Are Not Accessed in NYPD Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-york-and-bakerhaven-maps-are-not.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 September 2021. "Alcohol, Anonymity, Assets Attract Aggression, Arsenic and Old Puzzles." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/09/alcohol-anonymity-assets-attract.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 September 2021. "Elderberry Wine Activates Appalling Actions in Arsenic and Old Puzzles." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/09/elderberry-wine-activates-appalling.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 September 2021. "Bakerhaven Maps and Floor Plans Actualize Arsenic and Old Puzzles." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/09/bakerhaven-maps-and-floor-plans.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 September 2021. "Three Bodies Alarm Bakerhaven in $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles."Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/09/three-bodies-alarm-bakerhaven-in-10000.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 31 August 2021. "Cora Aspires to Smaller Sizes in $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/08/cora-aspires-to-smaller-sizes-in-10000.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 24 August 2021. "Maps Allow a Las Vegan Access to $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/08/maps-allow-las-vegan-access-to-10000-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 17 August 2021. "Arranging Alimony and Avoiding Alimony Activate The KenKen Killings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/08/arranging-alimony-and-avoiding-alimony.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 August 2021. "Perhaps Sherry Alone Avoids Bakerhaven Eateries in The KenKen Killings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/08/perhaps-sherry-alone-avoids-bakerhaven.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 August 2021. "New Yorkers Access Bakerhaven and Account for The KenKen Killings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/08/new-yorkers-access-bakerhaven-and.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 July 2021. "One Accident Augurs Three Deaths in The Puzzle Lady vs The Sudoku Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/07/one-accident-augurs-three-deaths-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 July 2021. "Perhaps The Puzzle Lady vs The Sudoku Lady Argues About Latte vs Tea." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/07/perhaps-puzzle-lady-vs-sudoku-lady.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 July 2021. "Bakerhaven Arrivals Are by Car in The Puzzle Lady vs The Sudoku Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/07/bakerhaven-arrivals-are-by-car-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 July 2021. "Intestate Acts Are, Are Not Intestate Actualities in Dead Man’s Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/07/intestate-acts-are-are-not-intestate.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 June 2021. "Fast Food and Safari Food Are For Puzzle Ladies in Dead Man’s Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/fast-food-and-safari-food-are-for.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 June 2021. "Alabama and New York Add to Bakerhaven Traffic in Dead Man’s Puzzle." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/alabama-and-new-york-add-to-bakerhaven.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 June 2021. "All Are Aware of Private Investigators in The Sudoku Puzzle Murders." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/all-are-aware-of-private-investigators.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 June 2021. "Martini, Muffins, Pancakes and Scotch Allay The Sudoku Puzzle Murders." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/martini-muffins-pancakes-and-scotch.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 June 2021. "Bakerhaven, New York and Tokyo Are Close in The Sudoku Puzzle Murders." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/06/bakerhaven-new-york-and-tokyo-are-close.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 May 2021. "Betting, Puzzling, Suing Are Why You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/05/betting-puzzling-suing-are-why-you-have.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 May 2021. "Starbucks Caramel Adds Acuity in You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/05/starbucks-caramel-adds-acuity-in-you.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 May 2021. "You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled Alerts Us About Bakerhaven Trains." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/05/you-have-right-to-remain-puzzled-alerts.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 May 2021. "One Knife, Two Deaths, Four Puzzles Aid 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. 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.
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.
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.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-yorkers-adapt-to-less-light-and.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 January 2021. "Fifteen Million Dollars Avenge Old Wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/fifteen-million-dollars-avenge-old.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 January 2021. "Chicken Soup Awes All But Appears Nowhere in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/chicken-soup-awes-all-but-appears.html

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

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 December 2020. "Bakerhaven Acquaintances Afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-actual-bakerhaven-map-never-appears.html

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