Elementary, My Dear Searcher

One hundred murders. Everyone saw something. Nobody can agree on what.

Somebody has been found dead at the greengrocer’s, and half the street saw something. One remembers a coat far too warm for the weather, another remembers exactly what was on the plate at lunch, and nobody can agree on who was wearing what. It is the same at the estate agents, the physio clinic, the airport lounge and the petanque club.

This is the fourth and hardest book in the series. Every case fills a whole spread, and each one is a proper sit-down solve, with far more to find than in the earlier books.

Inside:

• 100 cozy murder cases, each on its own two-page spread: the case file on the left, four big grids on the right
• 100 different killers and 800 suspects, with no suspect named twice
• Difficulty 4 of 4: the biggest grids in the series, over 1,100 letters to search per case
  • 56 words per case in 7 groups: suspects, evidence, motives, witnesses, menu, alibis and wardrobe
  • 10 answers to solve the case
  • Words running in every direction
• 6 different ways to solve:
  • The word you find twice is the answer: killer, weapon, motive, witness and last meal
  • The one grid the killer and the weapon share is the scene
  • One alibi on every list is missing from the grids, and that one is the lie
  • One group in every case comes scrambled, and has to be unscrambled before it can be found
  • A hidden victim crossing the murder weapon, and the killer’s outfit crossing the killer
  • Circled letters left over spell out where the weapon was hidden
• A how-to and a worked example at the front
• Full solutions included at the back

If you’ve worked through the earlier books, this is the one they’ve been building up to. If you’re new to the series, every book stands alone, so you can start right here.

Somebody saw something. Grab your copy and find out what.

Publisher - Book & Bat Publishing

Language - English

Perfect Bound

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By author

Word Nerds Press

Published Date - 2026-11-02

ISBN - 9781923500679

Dimensions - 29.7 x 21 x 1.3 cm

Page Count - 234