Search - Classic Whodunits

I love to read bedtime stories when I babysit but can't get into a big book or I'd have to send it home to be finished. This book is the perfect couple page story that causes the kids to think about the clues and the answers without keeping us up past bedtime to get to a good stopping point. You can pick it up after a day or month or a year and still enjoy stories from this book without having to remind yourself of what you already read.

The book has five sections - four sections with each section telling the stories of one main character and a fifth in the back with the solutions. We loved the "Sherman Oliver Holmes" and "Sherlock Holmes" stories because they were great bedtime stories and the answers were at the end so we couldn't accidentally cheat. We didn't care as much for the number puzzles with the Thomas P. Stanwick & Inspector Forsooth as bedtime stories though as they meant too much thought and even getting out paper.

This is a compact, sturdy, hardcover book with illustrations that enhance the stories without giving anything away until you are ready.

Backcover: You solve the crimes! Do you love a baffling mystery when the writer plays with your mind and the pivotal piece of the evidence appears to make no sense even though it has to? Join forces with some expert crime-solvers to untangle the clues and find the guilty parties in these wickedly devious whodunits. Can you figure ou the marvelously simple twists that unlock the mysteries? Was the murder a frame-up? Does that "innocent" bystander bear up under scrutiny? You come up with the answers.

Short scenerios with clues and you guess whodunit.

VERY GOOD BOOK