Christmas mystery
The Twelve Cases of Christmas
A snowbound town and twelve dated cases, from 19 December to Christmas Eve.
- Level
- Climbs gently
- Cases
- 12
- Suspects
- 40 to 1,500
- Format
- 6 x 9 in, 178 pp
Independent paperback publisher
Large print puzzle books, coloring books and planners
Word searches, cryptograms and cozy mystery puzzles for adults, bold coloring books for kids, and goal planners, all printed and shipped by Amazon.
Choose a puzzle book
Four ways to spend a quiet evening.
Pick by the kind of thinking you enjoy and how big you want the print. Each one has its answers at the back.
Logic grids
The Pennyfold Deduction Club
Eighty story logic grids in one cozy village, from spring's easy puzzles to winter's fiendish ones.
- Level
- Easy to fiendish
- Puzzles
- 80
- Setting
- A village, one year
- Format
- 8.5 x 11 in, 194 pp
Large print word search
The Wren Hollow Mystery
Ninety large print word searches whose hidden messages tell one gentle village mystery.
- Level
- Easy to harder
- Puzzles
- 90
- Grid letters
- 20 to 24 pt
- Format
- 8.5 x 11 in, 120 pp
Large print cryptograms
The Village Detective's Casebook
A retired postmistress's casebook in code: 200 cozy puzzles, from three letters given to none.
- Level
- Four levels
- Puzzles
- 200 in 20 cases
- Code letters
- 19 pt
- Format
- 8.5 x 11 in, 114 pp
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Look inside
Real pages from inside the books.
Each picture is a page from the book itself, set in black ink on white paper, shown slightly tilted.
Try one now
Find five words in Wren Hollow.
Tap the first letter of a word, then its last letter. The five words here run straight down or up; in the book they also run across and on the diagonal. There is no timer and nothing to sign up for.
This is the kind of page you will find ninety times over in the Wren Hollow Mystery, where the leftover letters tell a gentle village story.
Puzzle 1Wren Hollow
Morning in the village
Keyboard: arrow keys move, Enter or Space picks the first letter, then the last. Touch: tap the first letter, then the last.
- LANTERN
- KETTLE
- WREN
- CLUE
- MOSS
Play without the grid: type the positions
The grid has 8 rows and 8 columns. Each line below is one row, read left to right.
To mark a word, type the row and column of its first letter and of its last letter (numbers 1 to 8), then press the button.
All five found. That is one small page. There are ninety more in the book →
Free, every month
One puzzle page, on the house.
Each month we make one large print word search with a hidden message and one cryptogram with a few letters given, with the answers, for home printing.
We use your address only to send the monthly puzzle page. One email a month with the new puzzle pack, nothing else. Reply ‘stop’ to any email and we take you off the list. See this month’s pack. Trouble with the box? Use the plain form.
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- Code BreakersSecret codes, ages 8-12
- Copy & ComposeCopywork, ages 8 to 12
Read
Stories, how-tos and the thinking behind the books.
Stories Behind the Christmas Carols
Who Wrote Away in a Manger? The Luther Myth, Explained
Who wrote Away in a Manger? Nobody knows for certain. Here is the real, documented history of the carol, and how Martin Luther's name became attached to it.
Christmas Mysteries to Solve
Short Mysteries to Solve: Try The Snow Globe
Short mysteries to solve: try The Snow Globe, an original clue-by-clue mystery. Pause before the answer, then see how the evidence rules out every other suspect.
Christmas Hymns Word Search Large Print
Gifts for Seniors with Low Vision: What to Look For
Gifts for seniors with low vision, sorted by what has changed, with real large-print point sizes and a Christmas word search and carol book built around them.