Dead man's puzzle

By Parnell Hall

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

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.