About the book…
G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the first collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles―a perfect gift for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a series of crimes.
Who committed the ghastly deed?
What weapon was used to dispatch the victim?
Where did the calculated demise occur?
Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Volume 1 . The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you’ll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that can only be decrypted when you’ve solved them all.
Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue , Volume 1 is the must-have detective casebook for the secret sleuth in everyone.
‘Murdle-Volume 1’ is published by Souvenir Press on June 22nd, and I am so grateful to the lovely people there for sending me a sampler, which I then hid from the kids and promptly could not remember where I put it, until I was looking for another book. This gives you the idea what kind of detective I would be and also the level at which anyone can play along with the cases in the book.
I do not like Worlde, Sudoku or any other puzzles which have taken most of the workld by storm, so I was a bit apprehensive that this might be beyond me, but honestly, I really enjoyed it.
There is a large dose of tongue in cheek humour, the puzzles are hard enough to keep you chipping away at the solution, and there is this lovely back ground story of who Deductive Logico is, and an overarching story which is linked by the solutions to the puzzles.
Each of them has three suspects, three murder weapons and three locations-using your deductive skills and the minimal clues offered with each murder victim, you gradually fill the Murdle grid until , as the great detective himself once said, the only thing left is the solution. Or something like that. Once you eliminate the whatsit the answer is elementery.
The cases are divided into Elementary, Occult Medium , Hard Boiled and Impossible.
My sampler has 4 cases. 3 Elementary and 1 Occult Medium, and I really did enjoy using my little grey cells to solve the crime (I got 3 right, 1 wrong) and I definitely want to do more of these, so will be visiting the online Murdle site and loo forward to tracking down the full book when it is published!
All this is to say, if you enjoy crime novels, try something from the perspective of the detective, and if a simpleton like me, more Lestrade than Holmes,can find this fun, intriguing and exciting, then there is a high probability that you will too!
About the author…
G. T. Karber grew up in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a degree in mathematics and English literature before gaining a MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. As the General Secretary of the Hollywood Mystery Society, he has staged more than thirty immersive whodunits in the Los Angeles area.
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Links-https://gtkarber.com/
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