Crime and Puzzlement 3: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries

Crime and Puzzlement #3

by Lawrence Treat, Paul Karasik (Illustrator)

Match your sleuthing skills against Julius Quackery, amateur detective extraordinaire, as he tries to find out: Who beaned poor Kippy Betcher, ex-jockey, and sent him on his final ride? Wealthy Robert Pickle has disappeared overboard -- suicide or murder? The police hold a photograph of the murderer on the way to his crime -- but who or what is in the picture?

Read the story
Ponder the picture
Seize pencil in fist
And solve it yourself!
In this devilish anthology you'll find more delightfully murderous suspense from the blood-red pen of the criminally successful Lawrence Treat.

78 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), better known by his pseudonym, Lawrence Treat, was an American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. A practicing lawyer before turning to writing, he was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and a two-time winner of the MWA's Edgar Award. His first award came in 1965, for the short story "H as in Homicide"; his second was a Special Edgar Award in 1978 for editing a new edition of the Mystery Writer's Handbook, the MWA's guide for aspiring mystery writers, first published in 1956.

As a member of the League of American Writers, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact