Puzzled Indemnity (A Puzzle Lady Mystery), by Parnell Hall
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It's been a cold, lonely winter for Cora Felton. Distance has cooled her affair with Sergeant Crowley, and the only case she's investigated is a liquor store robbery. Then attorney friend Becky Baldwin asks her to check out if Brittney Wells' philandering husband is planning to kill her and collect on an insurance policy. Cora has no problem tracking hubby to his love nest, but Brittany refuses to believe he's cheating on her. Then the stakes escalate to murder.
Puzzled Indemnity (A Puzzle Lady Mystery), by Parnell Hall- Amazon Sales Rank: #4892018 in Books
- Brand: Hall, Parnell
- Published on: 2015-06-03
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 5.40" w x 8.60" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 427 pages
Review
“In this delightful comic mystery, the merging of the puzzle of the crime with the allusions to the movie Double Indemnity and Cora's convoluted conversations engages to the end.” ―Booklist
“Once again, Hall manages to perfectly integrate fun puzzles with an entertaining mystery in the latest entry of his Puzzle Lady series....Cora Felton...is as lovable as ever, with the attitude of an incredibly sassy grandmother.” ―RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
About the Author
PARNELL HALL has been an actor, screenwriter, and singer/songwriter. He is a former President of the Private Eye Writers of America and a member of Sisters in Crime. He has been a finalist for an Edgar, 2 Lefty, and 3 Shamus Awards. He lives in New York City.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Killing the Wife? By Mark Baker - Carstairs Considers The winter blues have definitely hit Cora Felton, and she is anxious to find anything she can to get her out of the house. Unfortunately, the town of Bakerhaven is having an unusually quiet spell when it comes to crime. The only crime is a robbery of the local liquor store by someone in an Iron Man mask.Then lawyer Becky Baldwin gets a new client who wants her husband followed to see if he is having an affair. Even worse, this client thinks that her husband has taken out a life insurance policy on her with a healthy double indemnity clause. Naturally, Becky turns to Cora to conduct the surveillance. Almost immediately, Cora finds the proof she’s looking for. However, the wife hesitates when confronted with the truth. And then things really explode.The books in the series can be hit or miss, but I really enjoyed this one. Yes, the book does feature the word play and banter I love, but that also served to advance the story and wasn’t just the characters showing off. The story took some interesting twists and turns along the way to the climax, which was a bit rushed, but that’s often the case in the series. The characters have never been super developed, but they are developed enough to be fun, and there is an interesting new development for Cora in the book.Fans of the series will delight in this fun and, dare I say it, puzzling mystery.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Delightfully Weird Cora Felton Solves a Twisted Murder Case in Parnell Hall's Superlative Cozy, "Puzzled Indemnity" By J. B. Hoyos In Bakerhaven, Connecticut, Cora Felton is known as the famous Puzzle Lady. She is hired by attorney Becky Baldwin to follow insurance salesman Hank Wells. His wife, Brittany Wells, suspects him of adultery and plotting her demise. Hank bought a double-indemnity life insurance policy; if his wife dies, he receives two million dollars. In order to nail Hank for adultery, Cora convinces her slimy ex-husband, Melvin Crabtree, to blackmail him. Soon afterwards, a car explodes in Bakerhaven's town center, killing its sole passenger. Cora finds herself up to her elbows in deception, lies and red herrings. Parnell Hall`s "Puzzled Indemnity" is one of the best Cora Felton novels I've read in a long time. The plot was excellent. Besides having a lot of silly, slapstick humor, the novel has a great mystery that is truly baffling. Based on the classic black-and-white Billy Wilder film, "Double Indemnity" (Double Indemnity), this latest Puzzle Lady caper moves at a swift pace. It is chock full of cliff hangers that enticed me to keep reading more. Cora is as hardheaded, overbearing, obnoxious and lustful as ever. She still pines and whines after Sergeant Crowley of the NYPD. Because Hank Wells works in Manhattan, Cora is able to hook up with the sergeant. Unfortunately, she learns he has a female house guest, Stephanie, who insists she and Crowley are just friends. The paranoid, overly suspicious Cora believes they are "friends with benefits." Sometimes, as I'm reading a Puzzle Lady Mystery, I feel like strangling Cora Felton myself. She is extremely annoying, offensive and opinionated. One reason that I like the Puzzle Lady Mysteries is because Cora Felton reminds me of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin. Both women, and their respective mystery series, are very zany and hilarious. Always obsessing over liquor and tobacco, Cora and Agatha have been married several times and live in small communities. Agatha, however, doesn't have a family of flesh-and-blood relatives. Cora does. She lives with her niece, Sherry Carter (she constructs the actual puzzles for which Cora is famous); her niece's husband, Aaron Grant, a reporter for the "Bakerhaven Gazette"; and their baby girl, Jennifer. Though Parnell Hall`s "Puzzled Indemnity" doesn't have the high body count that I always relish, it does have quite a few plot twists, jolting shocks, and hilarious hijinks. The core mystery is quite intriguing and I never guessed the killer's identity until nearly the very end. This is a cozy that Agatha Christie would have been proud to have written. I hope that future Puzzle Lady Mysteries are as highly entertaining as "Puzzled Indemnity."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It's a Puzzle By Ted Feit The Puzzle Lady Series usually is based on a convoluted plot, and this latest novel seems to embody the wackiest of them all. This is the 15th book since the author conceived the prototype, and the twists and turns in it make an Alpine road look like a straight superhighway. Of course, it gives Cora Felton, The Puzzle Lady who can’t solve crossword puzzles, free rein to propound all kinds of theories and barbs and amusing comments before the mystery is solved.It all begins when a ditzy young woman retains Cora’s lawyer friend, Becky, because she fears her husband is having an affair and is planning to murder her. She says he took out a $1 million life insurance policy on her, with a double indemnity clause. Shades of the movie, Double Indemnity, which was serious. Not as amusing as “Puzzled Indemnity,” which is anything but. Cora is asked by Becky to investigate, and thus begins the strange journey.Despite the levity and craziness throughout the novel (much less the series), it encompasses a first rate mystery, worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. All the novels, naturally, encompass crossword puzzle and sudokus containing clues to move the story forward. They are edited by Will Shortz, who performs a similar task for The New York Times. If you haven’t read any of this novel’s predecessors, this book is a good one to start with. Then go back and read the others.Recommended.
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