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The Baffle Book: Fifteen Fiendishly Challenging Detective Puzzles | 
 enlarge | Author: Lassiter Wren; Randle Mckay
Publisher: David R Godine
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
Buy New: $8.76
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 123902
Media: Paperback
Pages: 210
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1567923194
EAN: 9781567923193
ASIN: 1567923194
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
If you revel in the sport of armchair criminal investigation, The Baffle Book is just your cup of poisoned orange pekoe. Here are fifteen old-fashioned but wonderfully challenging "detective puzzles," the unraveling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction "those qualities of mind," the authors argue, "which make the solution of the most inscrutable mysteries a veritable pleasure."
In words, charts, and diagrams, Messrs. Wren and McKay put you at the crime scene and present you with the facts established by the police. What do you observe? Which are the telltale clues? What do you deduce? And how will you answer the questions posed at the end of each problem: "Who stole the emerald?" "Where did the gang plan to meet?" "In what city had the amnesia victim once worked?" Each question is scored to a degree of difficulty, with a perfect score of ten points per puzzle. And if you find you are stumped, you can turn to the back of the book, where the answers are printed (but upside-down, to deter you from giving up too easily). Don't cheat: you'll only spoil the fun.
In such puzzle-stories as "The Evidence on the Japanned Box," "The Toledo Death Threat," and "The Huppheimer Museum Robbery," Wren and McKay sparked a craze for "ten-minute mysteries" that spread through the American pulp-detective magazines of the late 1920s. These are the granddaddies and perhaps the most perfect examples of this venerable puzzle genre.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Interesting but..... July 1, 2007
Carol Collins (Santa Rosa, Ca United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although the author promised no "red herrings," there were several places where you needed some specialized knowledge in order to solve the puzzle. For example, one case requires you to know tire treads.
The cases are also largely from England and the book was first published in the early 1900s. Knowing all this, I probably would not have purchased it.
I gave the book to a police detective and have not heard anything of his success in solving the cases. On the other hand, he has not arrested me for wasting his time.
 whodunit April 24, 2007
James Guilford (MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed this old time detective book. It makes you think in the non-computer world style that allows for more interesting storylines. The stories are very different from the five-minute series being a little more difficult, but more satisfying when they are solved.
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