Attorney Becky Baldwin Maybe Aces New York Lawyers in Puzzled to Death

Summary: Attorney Becky Baldwin maybe aces New York lawyers over murder charges in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall.

Accountants and bookkeepers acknowledge as their professional ancestor Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (1447?-June 19, 1517), acclaimed as father of accountants and bookkeepers. Acting as bookkeeper for Bakerhaven paper mill allows one suspect in the Vale strangulation to afford a comfortable house for his wife and two daughters; 1495 oil on panel portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli (center), attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari (1460/1470-ca. 1516) or Jacometto Veneziano (active 1472-1497): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Attorney Becky Baldwin maybe aces New York lawyers over murder charges in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Morning tennis at Clarksonville racket club brings Cindy Fuller to 23 Barlow Street, whose kitchen bears the dead body of Joey Vale’s strangled wife, 28-year-old Judy. Married neighbors Charlotte Drake, whose husband clambers with Ray to Charlie’s big-screen television for football games, and Betty Felson contribute nothing to catching the culpable strangler. Widowed neighbor Felicity Roth does not divulge whom she discerns at the Vale door that November day while Danbury tool-and-die worker Joe drinks at Rainbow Room.

Two strangled bodies in early December (2001?) elicit attorney Becky Baldwin’s fresh-faced expertise and criminal charges by County Prosecutor Henry Firth for Judge Hobbs’ county courthouse.

Cleaning lady Cora Felton and puzzle lady Selma Howe respectively find second female and first male fatalities for the Medical Examiner, Dr. Barney Nathan, to autopsy.

The December female fatality, like the November female fatality, gets groomed by Sal Mosely of Mosely Funeral Home on Sunset Drive for local, perhaps Congregational services. Girlfriend Becky and Officer Dan Finley hand Channel 8 reporter Rick Reed more scoops than Cora and girlfriend Sherry Carter hand Bakerhaven Gazette reporter Aaron Grant. Emergency Medical Services transports and police investigations by Chief Dale Harper and Officers Sam Brogan and Finley ignite one competition-suspended day for Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament.

Becky jousts successfully with Bakerhaven police and prosecution twice over murder charges and perhaps, after Puzzled to Death, with New York lawyers over the third murder.

New Yorkers such as Craig Carmichael, Ned Doowacker, Paul Thornhill’s wife Jessica and Zelda Zisk and non-attendees Don Hinkle and Beverly Platt know the third killee.

Iris Cooper, as First Selectman in five-selectman meetings launching Cora’s and Harvey Beerbaum’s charity tournament, and tournament-competing mechanic Marty Haskel link puzzle-wise with the last victim. Perhaps tournament committee members such as bakery owner-operator Mary Cushman, librarian Edith Potter and banker Marcus Gelman’s wife met the final murderee at Friday Fun Night. Aaron’s parents, John, as head of his own insurance company, and Debbie, perhaps noted all three necrologies, of which two native Bakerhavenites and one tournament celebrity.

Perhaps Cora obtains, against New York lawyers observing victim three, from Becky a private investigatorship, which she opposed over murder victim one in Puzzled to Death.

Rainbow Room pleases less prosperous patrons such as Sy Fishman and more prosperous such as Billy Pickens, as paper-mill bookkeeper, Sara’s husband, Ellie’s and Wendy’s father.

Jed Benson and Lucy perhaps queue among the more prosperous as respective patron or proprietor of the Pickens’ preferred pizza pick-up and as their movie-going pal. Elsie Dixon and the Olsen couple perhaps reserve their bed-and-breakfast rooms for such respectively rich renters as Ned Dowacker and Jessica Thornhill, the latter Gattling-Finn heiresss. Small-town Bakerhaven shelters neither public transportation nor rental services so Jessica sends sufficient money for a Danbury agency to drive her rental to Olsen parking spaces.

Becky thwarts those trying her client over murder charges and, after Puzzled to Death, perhaps such New York lawyers as Carmichael-retained Roger Winnington over victim three.

The other suspect in the first strangulation acquires an assembly-line position at the Danbury tool-and-die plant. Tool-and-die makers are skilled craftsmen even as that occupation assures the second suspect of an undesirable area in small-town Bakerhaven; 2008 model of production system: PinguçoVerde, Public Domain, 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:

Accountants and bookkeepers acknowledge as their professional ancestor Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (1447?-June 19, 1517), acclaimed as father of accountants and bookkeepers. Acting as bookkeeper for Bakerhaven paper mill allows one suspect in the Vale strangulation to afford a comfortable house for his wife and two daughters; 1495 oil on panel portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli (center), attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari (1460/1470-ca. 1516) or Jacometto Veneziano (active 1472-1497): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacioli.jpg

The other suspect in the first strangulation acquires an assembly-line position at the Danbury tool-and-die plant. Tool-and-die makers are skilled craftsmen even as that occupation assures the second suspect of an undesirable area in small-town Bakerhaven; 2008 model of production system: PinguçoVerde, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modela%C3%A7%C3%A3o.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.

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

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

"Puzzle Lady." Parnell Hall.com > Books. Website by Kate Anchev/Outbox Online Design Studio.
Available @ http://parnellhall.com/puzzle-lady/

Perhaps Fun Night Attendees Ate All Free Desserts in Puzzled to Death

Summary: Perhaps Fun Night attendees ate all free desserts in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall.

Number puzzle lady Cora Felton acknowledges tomato juice as a daily beverage. She rarely appreciates it straight up, no matter how aesthetic or how alluring the arrangement; Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12:59, image of tomato juice with tomato slice and celery sprig: Davide (Davide Restivo), CC BY SA 2.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Perhaps Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament Fun Night attendees ate all free desserts in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Small-town Bakerhaven’s first-ever tournament begins Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time with Fun Night, which boasts a bountiful table bearing free coffees and free desserts. Adopted and cradle Bakerhavenites customarily congregate at Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop for morning coffees and desserts and at Country Kitchen restaurant for coffees afternoons through nights. Police Chief Dale Harper drinks dastardly coffee at the all-night diner, not Cushman-brewed coffee or decaffeinated coffee done by puzzle lady Cora Felton’s niece, Sherry Carter.

Reporter Aaron Grant eschews diner coffee, albeit nearer Bakerhaven Gazette, for Carter-brewed coffee, which attorney Becky Baldwin and Cora respectively enjoy black and milk- and sugar-whitened.

Charlotte Drake, Sy Fishman and Sara Pickens favor Fun Night free coffees and, respectively Country Kitchen bar drinks, Rainbow Room beers and Fun Night free cheesecake.

Charlotte and Widow Roth, unlike adopted and cradle Bakerhavenites, respectively gravitate to Sherry-style decaffeinated coffee and, like Sherry and tournament co-host Harvey Beerbaum, to hot teas. Harvey hosted last Septembers backyard, pre-tournament barbecue, from which attendees Charlotte, Craig Carmichael, Ned Doowacker, Marty Haskel, Paul Thornhill and Judy Vale headed to Rainbow Room. Don Hinkle, Beverly Platt and Zelda Zisk itinerated to the backyard barbecue but never imbibed mixed drinks with other invitees or ingested bar-counter peanuts with Ned.

All barbecue attendees but Beverly and Don in Puzzled to Death journey to Fun Night, where they jam free coffees and free desserts into their mouths.

Perhaps Fun Night refreshments kindle such blood sugar kinetics that Craig and Zelda then knuckle under to amber alcohol and green liqueur at Country Kitchen bar.

Perhaps blood sugar levels lead Paul Thornhill to leave Olsens’ Bed and Breakfast for liquor-store brandy since wife Jessica likens decentered sherry to lethal, liquid strychnine. Her drawstring purse manifesting a cigarette lighter and minimally one cigarette pack and one vodka flask means that Cora manages high blood alcohol and sugar measurements. Cora notes as necessary nutrition gin and tonic nestled into scotch and soda glasses at Rainbow Room and spices, tomato juice and vodka in Bloody Mary.

Jail-cell occupancy occasioned nobody observing Joey Vale, who ordinarily opts for beer, milk and orange juice, obtaining free coffees and free desserts in Puzzled to Death.

Gin-, scotch-, and vodka-packing Cora presents Billy Pickens, who prefers Rainbow Room beer and, with daughters Ellie and Wendy, parlor pizza, with scotch on the rocks.

Cora never queues for free coffees and free desserts, perhaps from welcoming committee member Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop, even as she quests her nieces chocolate desserts. She relishes not only brownies, perhaps realized from scratch and refrigerated since the day before, with cold milk, but also boxed, cupboard-stored, store-bought chocolate chip cookies. Smoking, spirits-sated, sweet-toothed Cora savors summer-grilled fish, hamburgers and steak in the Carter/Felton backyard and, as living-room dinners, pork medallions with egg noodles, spinach and wine.

One perpetrator terminated one victim who tended their drinks and two more who took free coffees and free desserts during Fun Night in Puzzled to Death.

Cora adores caffeinated coffee even as business partner, cook, housemate and niece Sherry Carter appreciates decaf. She agonizes against awful-tasting decaf even as she always allows herself only over-creamed, over-milked, over-sugared, over-sweetened cupfuls no matter whether caffeinated or decaffeinated coffees are available; New-York Tribune ad for Kaffee Hag, July 31, 1914, page 9: Public Domain, 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:

Number puzzle lady Cora Felton acknowledges tomato juice as a daily beverage. She rarely appreciates it straight up, no matter how aesthetic or how alluring the arrangement; Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12:59, image of tomato juice with tomato slice and celery sprig: Davide (Davide Restivo), CC BY SA 2.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomato_Juice.jpg; Davide Restivo (Davide Restivo), CC BY SA 2.0 Unported, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/43698630@N00/2346870767

Cora adores caffeinated coffee even as business partner, cook, housemate and niece Sherry Carter appreciates decaf. She agonizes against awful-tasting decaf even as she always allows herself only over-creamed, over-milked, over-sugared, over-sweetened cupfuls no matter whether caffeinated or decaffeinated coffees are available; New-York Tribune ad for Kaffee Hag, July 31, 1914, page 9: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaffee_hag_newspaper_ad.png; via Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress @ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1914-07-31/ed-1/seq-9/

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. 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

"Puzzle Lady." Parnell Hall.com > Books. Website by Kate Anchev/Outbox Online Design Studio.
Available @ http://parnellhall.com/puzzle-lady/

New Yorkers Adapt to Less Light and More Parking in Puzzled to Death

Summary: New Yorkers adapt to less light and more parking when they are in Bakerhaven in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall.

Puzzle lady Cora Felton advances the National Children's Placement Fund as the charity accepting money accumulated at her and crossword-puzzle constructor and solver Harvey Beerbaum's Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament. A flyer outside a D'Agostino store in the family-owned chain advises her of the charity advocating for underprivileged children; February 1950 image of grand opening of D'Agostino Brothers store on East 20th Street, near East River, Manhattan, New York City: Stephenrobberts, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

New Yorkers adapt to less light and more parking when they are in Bakerhaven in Puzzled to Death, 3rd mystery in Parnell Hall’s (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020) 20-book Puzzle Lady series.

Crossword-puzzle constructor Harvey Beerbaum’s backyard barbecue September (2001?) boasts as tournament-competing New Yorkers Craig Carmichael, Ned Doowacker, Don Hinkle, Beverly Platt, Paul Thornhill and Zelda Zisk. Craig, Ned and Paul then congregate at Rainbow Room, 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) out on Jackson Road, in Clarksonville, with locals Charlotte Drake and Judy Vale. Harvey designates, at a special meeting in Bakerhaven Town Hall, Craig, Paul and Zelda celebrity competitors in the first Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament two months later.

Tournament committee members expect to earn $10,000 from 100 hundred-dollar tickets the weekend of Dec. 5 (2001?) for the National Children’s Placement Fund for underprivileged children.

One fatality figured before, and two fatalities figure after, five selectmen fit registration, Fun Night and seven-puzzle competitions into Bakerhaven Town Hall flanking Bakerhaven County Courthouse.

Twenty-eight-year-old Judy Vale of 23 Barlow Street goes to Rainbow Room with her husband Joey, a Danbury tool-and-die factory worker, but gets strangled in her kitchen. Barlow numbers 7 through 46 huddle Charlotte Drake and husband, Betty Felson and husband and widowed Felicity Roth between power lines leftward and railroad tracks rightward. Barlow is 10 minutes from Rainbow Room, which is father from Bakerhaven Town Hall than Mosely Funeral Home on Sunset Drive and the town-edge service station.

Three neighbors jeopardized Bakerhavenites and New Yorkers journeying to less light light on Judy’s porch and more parking on the four-house block in Puzzled to Death.

Bakerhaven Police Station down Main Street keeps Joey from Fun Night and Fun Night attendee, paper mill bookkeeper, Rainbow Room drinker Billy Pickens’ wife and daughters.

Billy and Sara respectively leave their yellow frame 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) from town for the Carter/Felton residence, movies and pizza and for the mall supermarket. Puzzle ladies Cora Felton and Sherry Carter maintain one-acre (0.41-hectare) residency three miles (4.83 kilometers) from town, farther from Bakerhaven Gazette than the all-night, highway-straddling diner. They navigate to North Lake hiker and service-station mechanic Marty Haskel’s green-shuttered yellow-frame, with breezeway and garage, two miles (3.22 kilometers) out, at 232 Arbor Drive.

More parking without less light perhaps respectively orient New Yorkers Ned Doowacker and Zelda Zisk to Elsie Dixon’s and gingerbread house-styled occupancies in Puzzled to Death.

Attorney Becky Baldwin patronizes Country Kitchen, not Bakerhaven pizza parlor below her office, from her Fort Lauderdale-wintering, retired parents’ place, which never puts up bed-and-breakfast people.

Perhaps Olsens’ three-story Colonial, from whence Paul and Jessica quest liquor-store brandy and a Danbury rental car, three blocks from town center qualifies as bed-and-breakfast quintessence. Perhaps the Danbury rental runs Jessica to Bakerhaven bank, Bakerhaven library, Clarksonville racket club, Cushman’s Bake Shop or New York lawyers and undertakers the suspended-tournament day. Perhaps New York lawyer Roger Winnington serves Jessica and Craig, who sneaks into Harvey’s gingerbread-styled house from some bed-and-breakfast suite and swills Country Kitchen mixed drinks.

Perhaps Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament triggers more not less light than D’Agostino’s, which tolerated National Children’s Placement Fund pamphleteers, and more parking in Puzzled to Death.

Bakerhaven Power lines and railroad tracks respectively on the left and the right affirm Barlow Street as an undesirable area of small-town Bakerhaven; Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, 16:25, image of railroads in Connecticut: Leamsii, 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:

Puzzle lady Cora Felton advances the National Children's Placement Fund as the charity accepting money accumulated at her and crossword-puzzle constructor and solver Harvey Beerbaum's Bakerhaven Charity Crossword-Puzzle Tournament. A flyer outside a D'Agostino store in the family-owned chain advises her of the charity advocating for underprivileged children; February 1950 image of grand opening of D'Agostino Brothers store on East 20th Street, near East River, Manhattan, New York City: Stephenrobberts, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Opening_20th_Street.jpg

Bakerhaven Power lines and railroad tracks respectively on the left and the right affirm Barlow Street as an undesirable area of small-town Bakerhaven; Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, 16:25, image of railroads in Connecticut: Leamsii, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CT_Railroads.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.

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

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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