Puzzle Mystery

Este último tomo de la serie nos hace retroceder para tomar impulso hacia el gran final. El autor combina la continuidad de los hechos anteriores con la inmersión en un pasado que lo explica todo. Así conocemos los oscuros días del orfanato; los desmanes de los Fonseca; la celebración de un trágico pacto entre niños sin esperanza; una Noche de Brujas que esconde horrores bien humanos; una guerra de pandillas entre niños, que preanuncia pasos a seguir en la adultez;

On the muddy banks of the Calumet River, a body has been found posed next to a series of mysterious glyphs and bearing wounds from a ritualistic slaying. Chicago detective Addie Bisset knows only one man who can decipher the message left by the killer: her friend Dr. Evan Wilding. A brilliant forensic semiotician, Evan decodes the etchings as Viking Age runes. They suggest either human sacrifice or righteous punishment. But to what god? And for what sins? Only one thing is clear from the disturbing runic riddles: there are more victims to come.

Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up. Her own death brings Inspector Piper to the scene, and her resurrection cuts through Hollywood red tape as she becomes a target for the killer.

Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose.

Aaron Peterson feels like he's trapped in a recurring nightmare. After moving halfway across the world to flee his father's latest theme park failure, yet another disaster has occurred: A roller coaster car jumps the tracks at the Golden Apple Amusement Park, resulting in the death of his friend, Lucy Yi.

Andy Crowl barely knew his recently deceased cousin, Craig Moore, so he’s especially surprised to be named as the sole beneficiary in Craig’s will. Not that there’s much to inherit: just an empty bank account and a run-down house. Once Andy arrives in the town of Mortom, however, he’s drawn into his puzzle-obsessed cousin’s true legacy: a twisted and ominous treasure hunt. Beckoned by macabre clues of dead rats and cemetery keys, Andy jumps into the game, hoping to discover untold wealth. But unsavory secrets - and unanswered questions about Craig’s untimely demise - arise at every turn....

A “lifer” at the secluded Academy of Florence, Leo has never met his parents ... or anyone in his family for that matter. His current “family” is his mechanical monkey and robot lion, who along with his charming best friend and fellow lifer, Savvy, only get him into trouble. But after Leo’s latest experiment goes catastrophically wrong, he finds a mysterious clue that opens an underground maze—one that seems to have been created for him to solve. Leo hopes the tunnels will help him discover the identities of his parents and the reason he’s an orphan in the first place.

Ordinary Elementary is anything but ordinary. Below the classrooms are winding, abandoned, underground passages filled with lost treasures. Fifth-grader Graysen Foxx, aka The Gray Fox—finder of secrets, solver of mysteries, and explorer of the unknown—is hot on the trail of the legendary treasure of long-since-retired Principal Redbeard, which includes a decades’ worth of confiscated gadgets, rare comic books, first-edition Pokémon trading cards, an original Rubik’s Cube, and a retro football handheld video game.

The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But as soon as the pandas arrive, the baby is stolen! All the panda-nappers want in return is a million dollars.... Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose collar the culprits before Green Lawn has to cough up the cash?

Grace Angelo, witch and retired detective, is looking forward to a night of glitz and glamour. Her friend Dario, a local bookstore owner, has invited her to a prestigious book award event, but the celebrations are cut short when one of the winners is found dead. Hemlock Cove PD’s detective, Zachary Jackson, is quickly on the case, and it soon becomes apparent they have a murder on their hands. Grace agrees to consult on the case and recruits Dario to help.

لسنين طويلة ظل أبوطرطور لغزًا لا أحد يعرف مكانه.. لا أحد يعرف أسراره، وفجأة وصل الإنسان إليه ومن بين الذين وصلوا إليه المغامرون الخمسة...

وبعد هذه البداية تطورت الأحداث بسرعة...إن نادي الفانلة الحمراء قد يخسر مباراته الكبرى!! ولكن لماذا وهل يخسرها فعلًا.

كانت نوسة هي التي بدأت الهواية التي شغلت الأصدقاء بعد ذلك شهورًا طويلة..هواية لعبة الشطرنج.

كان المغامرون الخمسة قد استعدوا لهذه الليلة منذ فترةٍ طويلة...لقد كانت ليلة عيد ميلاد "لوزة" وقد قرّر "تختخ" و"محب" و"نوسة" و"عاطف" أن يقيموا لها حفلًا رائعًا.

"قال ( تختخ ) و على وجهه سمات الجد و الخطورة :لقد تحركت عصابة كلب البحر أسرع مما توقعت بكثير.

انشغل تختخ أثناء الإجاوة بتعلّم شيءٍ جديد يستخدمه في مغامراته، وقد كان يتمرَّن على هذا الشيء سرًّا فلم يخبر أحدًا من المغامرين الخمسة بما يفعل، وفي الحقيقة أنَّ ما كان تختخ يتعلمه لم يكن يخطر على بال أيّ واحدٍ منهم !!

وقف تختخ ونوسة بجوار السينما لعلَّ المطر يخف قليلًا، ولكنّه كان يزداد شدّة بين لحظةٍ وأخرى، وبدأت المحلات تغلق أبوابها ولم يعد أمامهما إلّا أن يسرعا بالجري إلى محطة باب اللوق ليستقلا القطار إلى المعادي..

كان هذا الاسم نقطة بداية هذا اللغز، وكانت لوزة أول من حاول كشف الغموض.. لكن الأمور تعقدت وأصبحت أكثر غموضا.. حتى المفتش سامي و رجاله وقفوا حائرين.. حتى تدخل شخصٌ ما ليس من رجال الشرطة ولا من المغامرين وحل اللغز! ترى من هو؟ وكيف؟

اختفت الفتاة الرقيقة "سوسن" دون أن تترك أثرًا يدل عليها !

هذه أول مرة يقوم فيها طائرٌ ببطولة لغز!!