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Word Search Whodunits

Cozy crime for adults. Each case gives you a scene and a grid. Find every word on the list, and the letters you never circled spell out a fact about the crime. Five puzzles a case, eight cases a volume, and the book never tells you who did it until you work it out.

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The Gull Island Mysteries

Word Search Whodunits, Volume One

Eight cases on a small island with a long memory. Forty grids, forty facts, and a culprit in every one.

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The Pinecliff Lodge Mysteries

Word Search Whodunits, Volume Two

A mountain lodge out of season, eight guests worth watching, and forty grids that give up their secrets one leftover letter at a time.

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The Playhouse Mysteries

Word Search Whodunits, Volume Three

Eight cases behind the curtain of a small repertory theatre, where everybody can act and somebody is acting innocent.

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The Christmas Village Mysteries

Word Search Whodunits, Volume Four

Eight cases in a town that takes its Christmas market very seriously, and one visitor who takes something else.

For Younger Detectives

Word Search Whodunits Jr.

The same detective work, built for ages 8 to 12. Bigger grids, shorter cases, and the same promise: nobody hands you the answer.

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The Gull Island Case Files

Word Search Whodunits Jr., Book One

Eight cozy cases for younger detectives, on the same island as the grown-up volume and just as tricky in its own way.

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The Cannery Window

Word Search Whodunits Jr., Book Two

Eight more cases for younger detectives. Find the words, read what is left, and name the one who did it.

Advanced Difficulty

The 50,000-Suspect Cases

A different kind of puzzle. One crime, one register of fifty thousand names, and eighteen clues. Cross out everyone the clues rule out and a single name is left standing. No trivia, no guessing, and no answer printed in the back.

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The Killer Never Left the Airport

50,000 Suspects. 18 Clues. One Name. Nobody Got Out.

A line of thunderstorms stops every departure out of the busiest airport on earth. At 8:42 PM a woman is killed on a moving walkway in a crowd of fifty thousand people, and nobody sees a thing. Seven minutes later every door is sealed. She left behind a notebook: eighteen true things about a name she never managed to see whole.

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The Killer Knew the Score

50,000 Suspects. 18 Clues. One Name. Nobody Left Their Seat.

A championship game goes to overtime, and fifty thousand fans are on their feet for the winning kick. In the roar that follows, a gambling-integrity analyst is killed in an empty stairwell two flights below the club level. Seven minutes later every gate locks. She left behind a notebook: eighteen true things about a name she never managed to see whole.

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Series

Room 2 Mysteries

Word search whodunits for early readers. Twelve kids, two clues, one of them did it.

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Who Took the Cookie?

Six Word Search Mysteries to Solve Yourself

Six cases in one classroom, and the same twelve kids every time. Two word searches give two clues, the clues cross out the class, and one name is left. Every case carries a code you can check here.

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