Break secret codes, unscramble anagrams, and solve logic problems to help Sherlock Holmes unravel a number of mysteries.

It's elementary...when you're with world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson, you're sure to find fiendish felons, uncover nefarious plots, and meet up with the wicked Moriarty. But, in order to crack these cases and reveal whodunit, you have to sharpen your wits by breaking secret codes, unraveling anagrams, solving logic puzzles, and figuring out tricky brainteasers! Put your powers of deduction to work--and prove you're smart enough to outwit the cleverest criminals!

Join Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in solving problems, dilemmas, and mysteries they encounter while trying to apprehend the infamous Professor Moriarty and other fiendish felons. Plots are uncovered, murderers revealed, liars unmasked, and goods recovered through the completion of delightfully illustrated logic puzzles, codes, anagrams, number puzzles, and whodunits.

Solve crimes like a detective; find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words - 80 simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires and heiresses. Includes a section of solutions to each mystery.

You solve the crimes! ... join forces with some expert crime-solvers to untangle the clues and find the guilty parties in these wickedly devious whodunits!

Figuring out perplexing puzzles is "elementary" for Sherlock Holmes, but now you've got a chance to show off your smarts, too! Match wits with the dastardly Moriarty and other scoundrels as you try to break codes, sort out stolen loot, and solve tricky riddles crucial to untangling crimes. Give this one a shot: Sherlock Holmes handed a piece of notepaper to Dr. Watson. The following sequence of letters was written on the paper O T T F F S R S E N T "One of these letters does not belong to the series, Watson ," said Holmes. Can you identify the letter that doesn't belong? Old fans and new will love finding out they measure up to the classic detective. Answer: R. All the other letters are the initial letters of the numbers one to ten.

Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre Depending on who you ask, the term “whodunit” was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars—the so-called “Golden Age” of mystery fiction—that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, and other high-end periodicals that still exist today. These tales were, in short, among the most popular diversions in literature and were of the highest caliber. In this volume, Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.