Books with title Five-Minute Crimebusters: Clever Mini-Mysteries

Murders most foul, criminal capers, and miscellaneous mysteries:welcome to the world of wily logician Thomas P. Stanwick. Join himas he fingers the guilty parties in homicides, robberies, frauds,and espionage--and helps his neighbors with less felonious puzzlers.Take a careful look at the facts, the timing, and the suspects--andtry to get to the bottom of these whodunits as quickly as Stanwick!

Detective Stanwick is back! And you are about to be challenged by 30 exciting mysteries. Each one takes only about five minutes to read. Every puzzle combines features of the traditional whodunit (physical clues, red herrings, means, motive, opportunity, time sequences) with logic puzzles (true-false statements, matching suspects with occupations, even a little math). Are you up to a little sleuthing and deductive reasoning? · The Case of the Suspicious Fire: Did the owner try to burn down his own store? Or was he really home asleep?· The Megaplast Mystery: Someone's threatening the life of The Megaplast Corporation's vice president. Can you find the culprit? You'll get some confusing facts, but if you use your smarts, you'll arrive at the answer. And many more!

As Ken Weber says, there are two kinds of people: the ones who love mysteries and the handful who don't. The throngs who wait eagerly for every new book in the Five Minute Mysteries series will be richly rewarded with this one that takes us from city to country, from a bank to a beach, and all over the world. They'll encounter detectives, thieves, and murderers, a sub-lieutenant searching for deserters during the Napoleonic Wars, an undercover KGB agent and a centurion in the Roman Empire. In all, there are 40 mysteries-40 chances to fly away from the drudgery of normal life for five minutes of high drama in another time and place. Sign us up!