Word puzzle book · Volume 1
LETHAL TRAILS
Word-trail mysteries with picture clues and a killer to catch.
Every grid is a room at the scene of a crime. Trace the words that belong there, tile to tile, borrowing letters from the picture in the middle. When every word is found, one letter is left behind. Collect them all and the case names its killer, its weapon or its hiding place.
13cases
101puzzles
3×3 to 5×5grids
150pages
Close the book and look at its edge. The grey frame of every page carries a sliver of the title, and the 75 leaves together spell it out.
Before you start
How a trail works
- Every puzzle is one grid, and every word in it belongs to the place the grid stands for. In the middle sits a picture with its name under it. Below are the answer boxes, first letter given.
- A word is a trail: step from tile to tile in any direction, straight or diagonal, never on the same tile twice.
- A tile without dots is used once. Each dot allows one more pass. Fill a dot each time; with none left, the letter is struck.
- A word may use the middle tile once. It borrows ONE letter of the picture's name, and that letter is crossed off.
- When all the words are found, every letter of the name is crossed off and one tile is never used. That letter is left behind.
- The letters left behind, in order, spell the key of the case.
Case 0 · free to play
Left behind
Inside the book
Thirteen cases, one letter at a time
- CASE 0Dinner for Seven7 puzzles · 3×3 grids · the killer
- CASE 1Closing Time7 puzzles · 3×3 grids · the weapon
- CASE 2The Allotment7 puzzles · 3×3 grids · where the weapon was found
- CASE 3The Collector's Trail8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the hideout
- CASE 4Opening Night8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the hideout
- CASE 5The Librarian's Messages8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the killer
- CASE 6The Courier8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the clue
- CASE 7Low Tide8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the clue
- CASE 8Harvest Fair8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the weapon
- CASE 9Lights Out8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the clue
- CASE 10Dead Air8 puzzles · 5×5 cross · the killer
- CASE 11Checkmate8 puzzles · 5×5 full board · the killer
- CASE 12Snowbound8 puzzles · 5×5 full board · where the weapon was found
FormatPaperback, 6 × 9 in, 150 pages
Puzzles101 grids plus the cover puzzle
HelpHints after every case, full solutions at the back
ISBN979-8-16-527519-7