Crime and Puzzlement 4: My Cousin Phoebe: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries

Crime and Puzzlement #4

by Lawrence Treat, Dean Bornstein (Illustrator)

Brief stories and drawings offer all of the clues the reader needs to solve each mystery

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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