Dead man's puzzle

By Parnell Hall

Subjects: Cora Felton (Fictitious character), Fiction, Felton, cora (fictitious character), fiction, Crossword puzzle makers, Crossword puzzles, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Large type books

Description: Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of Old Man Overmeyer. Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes and soon learns the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a forty-year-old stock pooling agreement.