Publication
The Hogarth Press (1984), 288 p.
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Description
Includes fifteen detective puzzles, the unravelling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts, and diagrams, this work puts you at the crime scene and presents you with the facts established by the police.
User reviews
LibraryThing member sdunford
not too baffling
LibraryThing member EricCostello
The first of three volumes that came out in the late 1920s and early 1930s that presented a series of mystery puzzles for a reader to solve, with the solutions in the back. Even at a distance of 90 years or so, the puzzles are still a lot of fun, though some puzzles are very dated. (For example, to
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guess where a kidnapped person had been taken, you have to know what papers would have been on sale in the Philadelphia and Baltimore of the era; another one requires tire-track knowledge lost to time). The illustrations are crude, but effective. Still a lot of fun to read, and the best of the series. Show Less
LibraryThing member EricCostello
This is, essentially, "The Baffle Book" with a number of elements changed over to English usage; it was originally published in 1930, and this particular edition is the 1984 reprint.
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
9780701219215
Physical description
288 p.; 7.7 inches
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Pages
288