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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.
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Crossword buffs will welcome Nero BlancsDeath on the Diagonal,in which crossword editor Belle Graham and her P.I. husband, Rosco, investigate a suspicious fire at the stables of a prominent family in Newcastle, Massachusetts. Six crossword puzzles add to the detecting fun.
Publishers Weekly
Treat yourself to a pleasant diversion...
Chicago Sun-Times
Praise for the
Crossword Mysteries
Crossword Mysteries
Another Word for Murder
Catnip for crossword fans.Kirkus Reviews
Combines the cerebral (six puzzles tied to nursery rhymes) with a fine investigation... an entertaining, robust entry in a unique series.The Best Reviews
A solid mystery featuring likeable characters that keeps you guessing to the end.Roundtable Reviews
Anatomy of a Crossword
A delight for both amateur sleuths and crossword puzzle aficionados. Blanc provides a breezy mystery set against a realistic entertainment industry background.Booklist
Crossword buffs wont want to miss Anatomy of a Crossword.
Publishers Weekly
An engaging, cerebral who-done-it for the armchair detective.Midwest Book Review
Corpus de Crossword
Another dandy puzzler.Publishers Weekly
The well-drawn characters in Corpus de Crossword are people we all know... The mood roller-coasters from pathos to laugh-out-loud funny, and the plot twists and turns before it delivers the final punch.I Love a Mystery
A Crossword to Die For
Nero Blanc serves up six actual puzzles and one solid mystery... Surprising revelations and ten-dollar words abound as another body turns up, a mysterious French woman causes problems, and the couple begins to receive hints via puzzles faxed from Belize.Publishers Weekly
A Nero Blanc mystery is always fun to read... This book, in fact this series, is highly recommended.BookBrowser
The Crossword Connection
Unique entertainment.Bucks County (PA) Courier Times
Another neat whodunit, along with some clever crosswords... Blanc builds the suspense slowly and surely, challenging the reader with a dandy puzzler.Publishers Weekly
Two Down
A snappy, well-plotted story that combines the best elements of the puzzle mystery and the village mystery... Two Down works well as an homage to Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh as the solid plot never strays from its course and features a surprising yet plausible ending.Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
[An] engaging crossword mystery... The [six puzzles] are an interactive touch that add to the problem-solving fun.
Publishers Weekly
The Crossword Murder
Evoe! At last puzzle fans have their revenge... Super sleuthing and solving for puzzle lovers and mystery fans.
Charles Preston, Puzzle Editor, USA Today
A puzzle lovers delight... A touch of suspense, a pinch of romance, and a whole lot of clever word clues... Whats a three-letter word for this book? F-U-N.Earlene Fowler
Addicts of crossword puzzles will relish The Crossword Murder.Chicago Sun-Times
A Crossworders Holiday
A lethal short story collection with crosswords includedand a bonus recipe!
Wonderful... Even if youre not a puzzle fan, the characters are so likable, you will have trouble putting this book down.
Romantic Times
A Crossworders Gift
Five short stories for a long winters nightwith puzzles included!
Crossword Mysteries by Nero Blanc
THE CROSSWORD MURDER
TWO DOWN
THE CROSSWORD CONNECTION
A CROSSWORD TO DIE FOR
A CROSSWORDERS HOLIDAY
CORPUS DE CROSSWORD
A CROSSWORDERS GIFT
ANATOMY OF A CROSSWORD
WRAPPED UP IN CROSSWORDS
A CROSSWORDERS DELIGHT
ANOTHER WORD FOR MURDER
DEATH ON THE DIAGONAL
TWO DOWN
THE CROSSWORD CONNECTION
A CROSSWORD TO DIE FOR
A CROSSWORDERS HOLIDAY
CORPUS DE CROSSWORD
A CROSSWORDERS GIFT
ANATOMY OF A CROSSWORD
WRAPPED UP IN CROSSWORDS
A CROSSWORDERS DELIGHT
ANOTHER WORD FOR MURDER
DEATH ON THE DIAGONAL
A Letter from Nero Blanc
Dear Friends,
Connecting writers to readers requires a special talent, and wed like to acknowledge the many people whose savvy, humor, and insightnot to mention business acumenhave made our mysteries a success story. Each of you deserves an Authors Appreciation Award. Lacking a suitable lexical offering, well simply list you and extend a multitude of kudos from two very grateful authors.
Thank you to: Mary Alice and Richard of Mystery Lovers Bookshop; Jim at The Mystery Company; Sharon at Books & Company; Barbara and The Poisoned Pen; Creatures n Crooks and Lelia; Bonnie and Joe of The Black Orchid Bookshop; Augie of Centuries & Sleuths; Bruce and Turn the Page; Mystery Loves Companys Kathy; The Mystery Bookstores Sheldon; Ed and Jean at M is for Mystery; Partners & Crime and Marshall; Richard at Head House Books; Joanne at Murder on the Beach; Booked for Murders Mary Helen; Tom of Murder Ink; Bridge Street Books Suzanne; Debbie at Mechanics-burg Mystery Bookshop; Angie of Voices and Visions; The Book Garden and Esther; Barry of Bookem Mysteries; Katie of Village Books; Kate at Kates Mystery Books; the many kind folks at Chester County Books, The Bookworm, and Baker Books; and, last but not least, Nancy of The Virginia Festival of the Book.
Getting to know you has been a delight,
Cordelia and Steve
Cordelia and Steve
CHAPTER
Although his name might suggest otherwise, Moon-dog was a proven champion. He was an eight-year-old gelding, a commanding seventeen-hand Dutch Warmblood and a world-class jumper, with enough blue ribbons to fashion a debutantes satin ball gown. He had been foaled and trained at Glen-Rosalynne Farms in Louisville, Kentucky, then sold to an Oscar-winning film director with a three-hundred-acre ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, California. The film director had jumped Moon-dogshooting schedules permittingin every major competition from coast to coast for a solid year before hed suddenly grown tired of the entire equestrian thing and decided to scrap one toy for another and try his hand at offshore sailing instead. He sold Moon-dog for $100,000about a quarter of the price of the boatto an investment banker in Newcastle, Massachusetts, a medium-sized city just to the west of Cape Cod across Buzzards Bay.
The banker bought the animal for his sixteen-year-old daughter because her primary equitation horse, a gray Thoroughbred mare by the unlikely name of Willow-whisp, had yet to finish above secondmeaning the beast had yet to win the bankers daughter a single blue ribbon. Not one! And this despite Daddy paying a trainer one hundred bucks a day, rain or shine, show or no show. Naturally the situation was both galling to the banker and a source of extreme exasperation to his daughter, Tiffany.
Both mounts, Moon-dog and Willow-whisp, were now boarded at King Wenstarin Farms, a show and breeding stable fifteen miles outside of Newcastle. It was a top-drawer place, as befitted the pricey animals residing there, but the lower stable in which the gelding and mare were housed had one disturbing complication on this particular early October evening, and that was the unmistakable presence of smoke.
Moon-dog was the first to smell it. In fact, hed heard the unusual noises that had initially triggered the problematic situation, watched the culprit flee the scene, and so knew precisely how the predicament had begun. The only thing the animal didnt know was how to unlatch the gate to his stallor how the story would end.
Horses do not react well to smoke. As with most mammals, humans being one notable exception, their internal mechanisms take them rapidly to the logical conclusion: Fire! Danger! Death! This intelligent insight creates in them a burning desire to put large distances between themselves and the smoke as quickly as possible. Moon-dog first snorted and then began anxiously pawing at the straw that covered the dirt floor of his roomy box stall. The acrid smoke tickled at his flaring nostrils. He whinnied and backed solidly into the wooden gate that barred his exit. The iron hinges creaked, and the steel latch jumped, but both held the gate in place. It would be only two minutes before Moon-dog would begin to do some serious damage to the stall and to himself.
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