Murder Most Puzzling is a gorgeous and witty book that invites readers to play detective and solve a series of absorbing, murder-mystery-themed puzzles. Readers are cast as the faithful sidekick to amateur sleuth Medea Thorne in order to solve 20 puzzling cases. Meet a cast of colorful charactersfrom ghost hunter extraordinaire Augustin Artaud, to Leonard Fanshawe, a competitor in the Annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival. A witty riff on the classic whodunit that brings out everyone’s inner detective Each mystery is sumptuously illustrated. The mysteries require different deductive tactics, making them a good brain exerciseA body in the topiary garden, a death at a clairvoyants’ convention, and the mysterious accident of the boating lakeprepare for a whirlwind adventure, laced with humor and a dash of the macabre.