The Best of Five-Minute Mysteries

✍ Scribed by Ken Weber

• Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here's an opportunity to use your powers of observation, apply your detective skills, and test how well you can sift out the facts.

The idea behind the Five-Minute Mysteries is that you are the sleuth. Each mystery takes about five minutes to read, some more, some less. At the end of each one there's a question waiting: “How does Jack know there's a lab hidden behind the wall?" “Why did Sue arrest the photographer?” What you do then is your choice. You can flip to the answers right away. Or reread the story for more clues. Or even go on to the next mystery’. After all. there are 50 to choose from!

The characters are eccentric, the crimes are wide-ranging, the settings vary from mountains to cities, and from present to past. And the 50 mysteries carefully selected for this book range from easy to challenging.

The Best of Five-Minute Mysteries will entertain everyone in your family. Your grandmother will find it fun. So will your kids. So before they can get their hands on it, make sure you get your turn!

Ken Weber is a self-confessed trivia freak and puzzle nut. In 1996, he was named professor emeritus by the University of Toronto, where he taught for many years. He is the internationally bestselling author of more than 40 educational and general interest titles, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide and have been published in 12 languages. Ken lives with his wife, Cecile, in Caledon, Ontario, and is an avid hiker and gardener.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Inside Flaps
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Preface
1. The Prowler on Burleigh Court
2. Double Suicide on Midland Ridge
3. A Clever Solution at the County Fair
4. A Holdup at the Adjala Building
5. A Surprise Witness for the Highland Press Case
6. The Case of the Missing .38 Smith and Wesson
7. A 9-1-1 Call from Whitby Towers
8. Before the First Commercial Break
9. To Catch A Mannerly Thief
10. Something Suspicious in the Harbor
11. Esty Wills Prepares for a Business Trip
12. The Power of Chance
13. An Unlikely Place To Die
14. The Last Will and Testament of Norville Dobbs, Orthographer
15. Not Your Average Hardware Store
16. Who Hid the Medicine?
17. Should the Third Secretary Sign?
18. The Case of the Jewelry Thieves
19. The Murder of Mr. Norbert Gray
20. Some Uncertainty About the Call at 291 Bristol
21. The Case of the Stolen Stamp Collection
22. The Case of the Buckle File
23. A Very Brief Non-Interview
24. A Clean Place to Make an End of It
25. Murder at the David Winkler House
26. A Quiet Night with Danielle Steel?
27. Right Over the Edge of Old Baldy
28. The Case of Queen Isabella’s Gift
29. Murder at 249 Hanover Street
30. Waiting Out the Rain
31. The Body on Blanchard Beach
32. The Case of the Missing Child
33. The Case of the Attempted Suicide
34. The Mission in the Clearing
35. In Search of Answers
36. Vandalism at the Bel Monte Gallery
37. Two Shots Were Fired
38. Investigating the Failed Drug Bust
39. A Double Assassination at “The Falls”
40. A Decision at Rattlesnake Point
41. When the Oxygen Ran Out
42. The Case of the Scalpel Murder
43. Spy Versus Spy
44. The Case of the Missing Body
45. More than One St. Plouffe?
46. Nothing Better than a Clear Alibi
47. The Search for Olie Jorgensson
48. While Little Harvey Watched
49. A Witness in the Park
50. Death in the Bide-a-Wee Motel
Solutions