Private Investigator Case Files

Solve More Than 90 Hardboiled Puzzles

4 November 2025

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, Singapore and Malaysia, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

Gareth Moore (Author), Laura Jayne Ayres (Author)

Description

Don a fedora, sharpen a pencil, and unravel these criminally fun conundrums.

In the dark and gritty criminal underworld, puzzling questions need clearheaded answers. You must analyze each crime scene, identify suspects, question shady characters, and solve the cases in this diabolically delightful collection of brainteasers. Test your wits and prove your mettle against all kinds of puzzles, from cryptograms, hanjie, and logic riddles to number searches, spot-the-difference, and sudoku. If you’ve pored over your notes, done all the dirty work that you can, and exhausted every bit of your cunning and intellect, you’ll find the answers hidden safely in the puzzle key. But the stakes are high: In this hard-hitting companion to Countryman Press’s cozy Whodunit Puzzles, can you clean up the streets and bring the city’s criminals to justice before it’s too late?

Reviews

"Dr. Gareth Moore’s puzzles are fresh and lively!" — Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times

Paperback

9781682689431

152 x 229 mm • 224 pages

£11.99

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9781682689448

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