Great Book Of Whodunit Puzzles: Mini-Mysteries For You To Solve [Paperback]

Falcon Travis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1993 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

Test your powers of deduction on 43 phony alibis, baffling clues, bits and pieces of evidence. Decipher codes as you match wits with such great detectives as Will Ketchum and Donna DiAnsa, as well as law enforcement officers like Luke Sharp, Hans Zupp and Carla Kopp. For many of the puzzles you'll find extra hints and clues to help you along, if you need them! "A clever presentation of entertaining puzzles...."--Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 128 pages, 25 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (June 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806903481
• ISBN-13: 978-0806903484
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #659,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Logic Puzzle Fans Will Enjoy This, January 31, 2007

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drebbles (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Book Of Whodunit Puzzles: Mini-Mysteries For You To Solve (Paperback)

The "Great Book of Whodunit Puzzles" by Falcon Travis contains 43 mini-mysteries, usually one or two pages long. Several of the puzzles have clues that can be found in a clue section right after the puzzles. The detailed answers are in the back of the book. There are a wide variety of puzzles in the book. Some of them are traditional mini-mysteries where you read the mystery and use the clues to solve it; some are logic puzzles where you have to figure out who is who using the clues in the puzzle; some are picture puzzles where you have to compare two pictures and figure out which one is a fake; cryptograms; and picture puzzles where the pictures are mixed up and you have to figure out the correct sequence.

For the most part the "Great Book of Whodunit Puzzles" is very challenging. You need to read the puzzles carefully and also pay close attention to the illustration in each puzzle. The clues that are included are very useful to the puzzles. Falcon Travis uses a lot of punny names in the book such as Sergeant Hans Zupp, Inspector Will Ketchum and Inspector Donna DiAnsa but he doesn't use names that give away the answers. My favorite puzzles were the straightforward mini-mysteries and picture puzzles. However, the majority of the puzzles were the logic type, which often involved figuring out who was who rather than finding out whodunit. Also, a couple of the puzzles, "Murder in the Locked Room" and "The Clickspring Cup", were a bit unbelievable. But the other 41 puzzles in the book were well done.

Fans of mini-mysteries and especially logic problems will enjoy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 9-yr old boy really enjoys this detective work, December 29, 2011

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Theodora (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Book Of Whodunit Puzzles: Mini-Mysteries For You To Solve (Paperback)

A 9-yr old and I do 2-3 of these puzzles a day and he is the one asking to do them. I think he could only do a few of them completely independently, but a lot of the fun is in working together anyway. The previous reviewer gives a good description of the book. Just knowing you can consult the clues section for help and still find the final answer on your own, tends to make us work harder to find those clues in the original problem ourselves. In addition, framing it as detective work to get the bad guys makes it much more interesting to us than if the same problems were in a math or logic book.