140. Two Down (Crossword Mystery, 2) – Nero Blanc, Berkley Prime Crime Mystery, July 2000, ISBN: 0425175103, 283p.
Featuring: Rosco Polycrates and Belle (Annabella) Graham
Synopsis:
Solve the puzzles...and solve the crime!
(from back cover)
TWO DOWN...UNDER
Up, down, or across...S.O.S. spells the same thing - danger! When a famous Hollywood actress and her friend set sail off the coast of Nantucket Island - and never return - everyone assumes they were victims of an accident. But when their dinghy suspiciously washes up in a cove where teh tide can't reach, it sounds like foul play.
P.I. Rosco Polycrates and his paramour/crossword editor Belle Graham are sharpening their pencils and their minds to solve this case. When Belle discovers annonymous clues left on her doorstep, it looks like they're off to a good start. But the truth is not so easily spelled out, and it will take all their sleuthing skills to fill in the missing blanks.
Comments:
The second Crossword Mystery by husband/wife team Cordelia Frances Biddle & Steve Zettler. I enjoyed it. Don't know when I'll have time to find and read the rest of the series though (10 more have been published so far). I'm a bit overwhelmed by my ever-growing TBR piles lately.
The great gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap [Hah! It most certainly is not!], it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
