A six-volume paperback collection of word search puzzles wrapped around a cozy mystery: Pearl Crossley, who has built the Foxglove Gazette's weekly word search for thirty years, follows a cold case through a hundred puzzles per book and a string of postcards from someone who should not be writing. The updated edition prints every puzzle 20% larger than earlier copies, and the set comes in a regular 6" × 9" paperback or a large-print 8.3" × 11.7" edition with oversized grids and big type. It suits puzzle-and-mystery readers who want a long, story-driven solve rather than a one-off grid book. Against ordinary word search collections, the draw is the narrative thread and Pearl's character; the trade-off is that the puzzles are word searches, not logic or crossword challenges.
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Rated 4.3 out of 5 from 63 ratings. Buyers respond to the story-driven format and the larger print in the updated edition; the main reservations are the word-search-only puzzle style and the size of the large-print volumes.
Murder, She Searched is a six-book word-search series with a mystery story running through it. Pearl Crossley has built the weekly word search for the Foxglove Gazette for thirty years. Postcards begin arriving, one per book and each postmarked from a different town, nudging her toward a case her village never finished: deaths that have gone unsolved for forty years.
Each volume has 100 standalone murder-mystery word searches to solve at your own pace. Each also has a sealed finale puzzle that hides one fragment of the truth Pearl is chasing. Solving all six books assembles the whole story. Pearl's postcards are part of the story inside the books.
This is an updated edition, and every puzzle prints 20% larger than in earlier copies. The Regular Print set uses the classic paperback size. The Large Print set has oversized grids and big type.
