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When young attorney Becky Balwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. Cora is just coming off a bad breakup, and finding out that Chief Harper testified at a parole hearing for a killer she helped put away has her feeling old. But when she and Becky arrive at the apartment, they find the man is dead. There's a puzzle on his chest, and a prowler is searching the bedroom. Cora pulls her gun and gets off a shot as the intruder ducks out the window. The NYPD now think Cora is the murderer. Getting her off should be a breeze for Becky, but when the fatal bullet is too badly damaged to identify, Cora is lucky to get out on bail.Meanwhile, a diabolical killer is leaving puzzle clues.



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Parnell Hall

Parnell Hall is the Shamus Award winning, Edgar nominated author of the Stanley Hastings Private Eye novels, the Puzzle Lady crossword puzzle mysteries, and the Steve Winslow courtroom dramas. With Stuart Woods he writes the NewYork Times bestselling Teddy Fay thrillers.Parnell has a scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Hercules in New York. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie C.H.U.D.Please buy his books to save him from these misspent lives.



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