How to Solve a Murder: 70 One-Minute Detect-O-Gram Mysteries to Decipher & Decode

by H. A. Ripley

Use your wits to solve 70 detect-o-gram mysteries!With just your common sense and a capable eye for detail, you can learn How to Solve a Murder. In this unassuming book of 70 detect-o-grams (brief but curious mysteries you can solve in a minute), you will dust off the case files of a time gone by, when the answers were not at your fingertips. Do away with forensic tools and technology and focus on the barest of facts and critical details. Follow the guidance of the fictional Professor Fordney, a mere intellectual with a sharp wit, whose assessments broke cases wide open and embarrassed the likes of detectives who could not see the easy answers before them. Simply ask What is it about the criminals’ own hubris, negligence, or even stupidity, that will lead you to the solutions?- Decode 70 puzzles that only take a minute to solve, and perfect your crime-solving skills- Travel back in time to when Depression-era tensions led to bootlegging, corruption, estate theft, and scandals- Make it a party game! Solve cases—from jewelry heists and crimes of jealousy to brazen murders

Genres: Mystery, Mystery Thriller

176 pages, Paperback

Published April 9, 2024

Reviews

[Ranjini Shankar · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 rounding up. These were fun, quick mysteries that encourage the reader to pay attention to the details. It gets repetitive after a bit but it made for an interesting afternoon. Each mystery is about 2 pages and any information you may need is in those two pages, it’s up to you to figure out which details are relevant to answering the question.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little Mysteries, dated answers to them.

[Ashley Mauer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of these were fun little mysteries to try puzzling out yourself, but despite the introduction swearing everything you need to know is provided, some of them made large assumptions about what people already know coming into it. Yale doesn’t have keyholes? Not common knowledge as was assumed. Other mysteries the deductions made were sensible, but they were weak grounds to say the mystery was solved based on.

[Srinagesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are fun little detective mysteries of ordinary life. More in the nature of Sherlock Holmes than Hercule Poirot. Now, some of them require some assumptions, much like puzzles. But that is the beauty. The fun is in exercising the brain. Not so much as reaching a solution. Because once you reached a solution there is a little high that quickly is gone and you move on. Also for the same reason, do a few at a time. Just like puzzles or humour.