The Crossword Mystery

Puzzled to death...

What could be more innocuous than a crossword puzzle? And yet apparently it could be turned to a sinister purpose. The strange crossword devised by George Winterton turned out to be more than what met the eye. When Detective-Constable Owen arrives in the picturesque village of Suffby Cove, he is faced with the mystery of a baffling murder one which may prove to have international ramifications.

"What is distinction? The few who achieve it step plot or no plot unquestioned into the first rank. We recognized it in Sherlock Holmes, and in Trent's Last Case, in The Mystery of the Villa Rose, in the Father Brown stories and in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers