Crossword puzzle editor Belle Graham and PI Rosco Polycrates put their wedding plans on hold to solve a murderous puzzler that could give them both cold feet.
While helping decorate a local inn for Christmas, Belle finds a handmade book of dessert recipes written in the form of crosswords, dedicated from mother to daughter. While she tries to puzzle out how such a treasure could have been abandoned, a precious poem belonging to the inn goes missing and...
When Belle's deadbeat dad mysteriously dies en route to seeing her, she and Rosco start digging through his sketchy past to find the truth behind his strange life and suspicious death.
Nero Blanc's crossword mysteries have been creating a buzz up, down, and across the aisles of bookstores-and now, the series debut is available in mass market paperback for the first time. Join P.I. Rosco Polycrates as he fills in the blanks of an investigation into a flamboyant crossword editor'...
Crosswords fill in the blanks of this mystery in the national bestselling series. Puzzle editor Belle Graham is on her way to Hollywood to whip up a puzzle for the pilot of a new television series. But the puzzle she creates arrives from the typesetter with the clues completely changed, followed...
Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.
In this brain-teasing follow-up to the smash-hit debut, The Crossword Murder, P.I. Rosco Polycrates returns to discover that -- up, down, or across -- S.O.S. spells danger.
Rosco Polycrates and Belle Graham must figure out the nasty puzzle linked to the skeletal remains of a young woman discovered on land slated for development.
Holiday jitters abound this season when crossword editor Belle Graham and her P.I. partner Rosco Polycrates must catch a criminal to restore peace on earth.
A new puzzler in the national bestselling series.
"If crosswords are your puzzle of choice, you'll be delighted to meet [Nero Blanc]," says Mystery Reader. And indeed, these unique crossword mysteries (with puzzles included) have already earned a large and enthusiastic following. Now crossword editor Belle Graham and P.I. Rosco Polycrates are ba...
From the author of A Crossword To Die For and The Crossword Connection-a wonderful new addition to the hit series. "If crosswords are your puzzle of choice, you'll be delighted to meet [Nero Blanc]," says The Mystery Reader-and indeed, these unique crossword mysteries (with puzzles included) hav...