Fireside Puzzles

The Ninth Suspect

A murder mystery in sudoku and logic puzzles: work 18 shifts alongside a detective and find out which of nine neighbors is the killer.

Fireside Puzzles

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About this book

Nine suspects. One killer. 72 hours.

Eighteen chapters, each a four-hour shift of the investigation with four puzzles; every answer moves the case forward.
Puzzle types include sudoku (6×6 on day one, 9×9 from hour 25), alibi chains, evidence sums, coded radio calls and evidence locks.
An Elimination Board at the front tracks the nine suspects. Large write-in grids, with all 72 solutions printed upside down at the back.

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