Christmas mystery cases
The Twelve Cases of Christmas
A snowbound town and twelve dated cases, from 19 December to Christmas Eve.
Puzzle Books for Adults: Choose by Solver Type
Compare our puzzle books for adults: logic grids, large print cryptograms, large print word search and Christmas mystery cases, each with its answers.
All the books on this shelf
Large print word search
Large Print Word Search: The Gardener's Edition
Ninety garden word searches in big, clear letters, each hiding a cheerful garden line.
Large print word search
Large Print Christmas Word Search: The Snowy Village Story
Ninety Christmas word searches whose hidden messages tell one cozy story.
Large print cryptograms
Large Print Cryptograms: The Village Detective's Casebook
A retired postmistress's casebook in code: 200 cozy puzzles, from three letters given to none.
Logic grid puzzles
The Pennyfold Deduction Club
Eighty story logic grids in one cozy village, from spring's easy puzzles to winter's fiendish ones.
Large print word search
Large Print Cozy Mystery Word Search: The Wren Hollow Mystery
Ninety large print word searches whose hidden messages tell one gentle village mystery.
Large print word search
Large Print Dog Lover's Word Search
Ninety large print word searches whose hidden messages add up to one happy love letter to life with a dog.
Large print word search
Large Print Cat Lover's Word Search
Ninety large print word searches whose hidden messages add up to one quiet love letter to life with a cat.
Large print seek and find
Cozy Main Street Seek & Find
A year in one small town: 48 full-color scenes to search, with a picture of every thing to find.
Large print activity book
Rest and Recover
Easy large-print puzzles and quiet pages to pass the slow hours at home, one page at a time.
Large print cryptograms
Large Print Cryptograms: A Little Book of Wisdom & Cheer
Two hundred small, good thoughts in code, from three letters given free to none.
Large print word fill-ins
Large Print Word Fill-Ins: A Cozy Collection of Criss-Cross Puzzles
Fit every word into the grid, across and down: 112 cozy criss-cross puzzles in large print.
Large print word search
Christmas Hymns Word Search Large Print
Forty-eight beloved carols, each with its traditional verses, a sourced true story and a large print word search built from that carol's own words.
Compare them
| Book | Kind | Pages | Puzzles | What makes it different | Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Twelve Cases of Christmas | Christmas mystery cases | 178 | 12 cases | A snowbound week in Tinselby, 19 to 24 December | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Word Search: The Gardener's Edition | Large print word search | 118 | 90 | A garden note and a hidden message on every page | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Christmas Word Search: The Snowy Village Story | Large print word search | 120 | 90 | The hidden messages tell one Christmas story | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Cryptograms: The Village Detective's Casebook | Large print cryptograms | 114 | 200 | Three letters given at first, then none | See it on Amazon |
| The Pennyfold Deduction Club | Logic grids | 194 | 80 | A village year, easy to fiendish, every step written out | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Cozy Mystery Word Search: The Wren Hollow Mystery | Large print word search | 120 | 90 | The hidden messages tell one gentle village mystery | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Dog Lover's Word Search | Large print word search | 122 | 90 | Dog breeds and dog words; the hidden messages are one love letter to life with a dog | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Cat Lover's Word Search | Large print word search | 122 | 90 | Cat breeds and cat words; the hidden messages are one quiet love letter to life with a cat | See it on Amazon |
| Cozy Main Street Seek & Find | Large print seek and find | 142 | 48 scenes | One small town through four seasons, in full color, with picture cards of all 472 objects | See it on Amazon |
| Rest and Recover | Large print word search and cryptograms | 84 | 64 | Gentle puzzles and quiet write-in pages for the days after surgery | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Cryptograms: A Little Book of Wisdom & Cheer | Large print cryptograms | 124 | 200 | Warm sayings, old proverbs and curious facts, in four levels | See it on Amazon |
| Large Print Word Fill-Ins: A Cozy Collection of Criss-Cross Puzzles | Large print word fill-ins | 146 | 112 | Criss-cross grids in 16 cozy themes, each checked by computer for one answer | See it on Amazon |
| Christmas Hymns Word Search Large Print | Large print word search | 140 | 48 | 48 carols, each with traditional verses and a sourced true story | See it on Amazon |
These puzzle books for adults are all paperbacks you solve with a pencil, and every one has its answers at the back, so you always have a way to check your work. Where they differ is the kind of thinking they ask for, and how big the print is. This page is here to help you match the book to the solver.
If you like to reason it out
The Pennyfold Deduction Club is 80 logic grid puzzles set across one village year, from easy to fiendish. Each puzzle gives you a short story, a set of clues and a grid to mark, and the solutions at the back write out every step, not only the final answer. If you have never tried one, how to solve logic grid puzzles walks through the method.
The Twelve Cases of Christmas is for the solver who wants a story with the reasoning. It is twelve cases set in a snowbound village in the days before Christmas, and in each one you cross suspects off a list until one is left, with lists that grow from 40 suspects to 1,500. Christmas mystery books for adults has more on this kind of book.
If you want large print
Two books on this shelf are printed large throughout, answers included.
Large Print Cryptograms: The Village Detective's Casebook has 200 short coded notes: case clues, old sayings and curious facts, each written in a letter-for-letter code. The first cases give you three letters to start, and the help shrinks until the last cases give none. How to solve cryptograms explains the method, starting with the one-letter words.
Large Print Christmas Word Search: The Snowy Village Story has 90 word searches whose hidden messages, read in order, tell one Christmas story. It is a gentle, familiar puzzle in big letters, and Christmas activities for seniors has more ideas for the season.
For Christmas, or all year
Two of the four are Christmas books: The Twelve Cases of Christmas and the Snowy Village word search. The logic grids and the cryptograms work all year round.
Articles
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.
Large Print Christmas Word Search: The Snowy Village Story
Christmas Puzzles for Adults: Three to Solve Right Here
Try three Christmas puzzles for adults: a hidden-message word search, a four-clue logic grid and a festive suspect mystery, with answers and explanations.
Large Print Cat Lover's Word Search
What Is a Group of Cats Called? Clowder, Kindle and Clutter
What is a group of cats called? Clowder is the dictionary answer. We checked the famous 1486 list and a modern dictionary to see which cat words hold up.
Large Print Word Fill-Ins: A Cozy Collection of Criss-Cross Puzzles
How to Do Fill In Puzzles: The Crossword Without Clues
How to do fill in puzzles step by step: count word lengths, find a starting entry, use crossing letters and check each placement as the grid fills.
Large Print Cryptograms: A Little Book of Wisdom & Cheer
Easy Cryptograms for Beginners: Start with a Saying
Easy cryptograms for beginners give you free letters, short words and the spaces left in. Learn the moves, then watch one proverb crack in four steps.
Cozy Main Street Seek & Find
Seek and Find for Adults: How to Look at a Busy Picture
Seek and find for adults is a lesson in looking. Eight habits for finding what hides in a busy picture, starting with a Bruegel painting from 1559.
Rest and Recover
Gifts for Someone Recovering from Surgery, Hour by Hour
Gifts for someone recovering from surgery, chosen by the hours of a slow day at home: the long morning, the afternoon, the evening and the small hours.
Large Print Word Search: The Gardener's Edition
Gifts for Elderly Gardeners: Keep the Garden Within Reach
Practical gifts for elderly gardeners, from easier-to-use garden gear and raised planters to large-print books and thoughtful help in the garden.
Large Print Dog Lover's Word Search
Dog Breed Name Origins: From a Tax Collector to a Butterfly
Dog breed name origins, told as stories: the tax collector behind the Doberman, the badger in Dachshund, the butterfly in Papillon, and more.
Large Print Cozy Mystery Word Search: The Wren Hollow Mystery
Cozy Mystery Word Search: One Puzzle, One Clue, Large Print
A cozy mystery word search hides a line of story in every grid, so the whole gentle mystery unfolds one puzzle at a time, in big, easy-to-read letters.
The Pennyfold Deduction Club
How to Solve Logic Grid Puzzles Without Guessing
How to solve logic grid puzzles step by step: mark the grid, read either-or and order clues exactly, follow a worked example, and never guess.
Large Print Cryptograms: The Village Detective's Casebook
How to Solve Cryptograms: Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 Method
How to solve cryptograms the way Edgar Allan Poe did: one-letter words, THE, apostrophes, double letters, and why letter counts fail on short puzzles.
The Twelve Cases of Christmas
Christmas Mystery Books for Adults: A Snowbound Classic
Christmas mystery books for adults, starting with the 1937 snowbound classic that came back as a bestseller in 2014, plus four more to read by the fire.
Large Print Christmas Word Search: The Snowy Village Story
Christmas Activities for Seniors: A Four-Week Countdown
Christmas activities for seniors, one small thing a week: cards and a letter to Santa, the ornaments' stories, a family recipe, then songs and lights.