Murder Mystery Books to Solve

Whodunit puzzle books you work through with a pencil: secret codes, logic grids, word searches and linked cold cases. Printed and delivered by Amazon.

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A crime, a list of suspects and a chain of puzzles that ends with the killer's name.

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Word Searches, Logic Grids, Secret Codes and More, Every Puzzle Reveals a Fact

Murder Mystery Puzzle Book

4 whodunits, 25 files each16 puzzle typesDifficulty 1 to 5 in every caseHints, answers and a full verdict

Four small places, four deaths that do not add up: a lighthouse on a storm night, a clockmaker at the foot of his own stairs, an opera house the night before a premiere, a vineyard at harvest time. You work each case like a detective, file by file. One file is a coded letter, the next a logic grid of who was where, the next an alibi table with one lie in it. Every solved file hands you one fact, and twenty-five facts leave a single suspect standing.

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Detective Word Search Books →

Word searches with a crime behind them, and a secret message in every grid.

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Mystery Puzzle Book for Adults, 10 Linked Cold Cases

100 Detective Word Search Puzzles

100 word searches + 5-puzzle finale10 connected cold cases12x12 up to 18x18 gridsSecret message in every grid

Forty years of unsolved files are about to leave the Brannock police station, and one detective gets a last look at ten of them. Each box becomes ten word searches set at the scene: a vineyard cellar, a town parade, a mountain hut in a whiteout. The twist is in the word list. Two words are never in the grid, and those two answer the case questions. Circle everything else and the leftover letters spell out a secret.

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Holiday Murder Mystery Books →

Whodunits tied to a date on the calendar, starting with a December countdown.

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A Christmas Advent Calendar Murder Mystery Puzzle Book for Adults

24 Days to Catch a Killer

2 mysteries, 24 days eachA short puzzle every day, 10 to 25 minutesAbout 500 names to rule outTwo hints a day and a sealed solution

Trade the little paper doors for a whodunit. This book holds 2 mysteries, 24 days each: Silent Night at Hollybrook, set at a snowed-in village inn, and Last Train to Edelweiss, set on a stranded sleeper train. Each December day brings one short puzzle, and its answer tells you who to strike from a register holding about 500 names. By December 24 only one is still standing. Save the second story for next December, or form two teams and see who gets there first.

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Elimination Puzzle Books →

A long guest list, a short run of clues and a pencil to narrow it down.

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A Murder Mystery Elimination Puzzle Book for Adults: 2 Cases, 6,000 Guests, One Name Left

Find the Killer

2 cases, 6,000 guests18 clues per case, 3 of them lockedProgress checks after every third clueOne Name Left to close each case

A hotel cashier and a museum keeper, two deaths on two gala nights, and around 3,000 possible culprits for each. You get the story, 6 statements from people who were there and 3 pieces of evidence, then 18 clues that thin the crowd one fact at a time. Three of those clues stay hidden until you beat a small puzzle, and regular progress checks show how many names you should still have. Keep going and the list ends the way the cover promises: One Name Left. A pencil is the only tool you need.

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Be the detective, not the reader

In a crime novel the detective does the thinking. In these books you do. Every page is a piece of the investigation, and every puzzle you crack moves you one step closer to a name. When the last clue falls into place, you will know who did it, and you will know why.

The books come from the same team that writes the online cases on MurderMysteryTime, so they follow the same rule: the solution is always fair. No lucky guesses, no hidden tricks, no gore. They work for one solver, for two, or for a table of friends.

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