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Who Killed Mr. Boddy? by A.E. Parker5/28/2023 The characters are lovely, if silly, and my son & I enjoyed our read through the book. In other words, you generally can solve each mystery by just reading the last page of the chapter, and what’s the value of that? Anyway, don’t get me wrong. Rather, the chapters typically describe some kind of silly crime then introduce an unrelated puzzle to help you determine the culprit. Unlike other books written in the same vein, this one does not reward the reader who keeps track of little details as the events unfold. It must have been the puns & interplay between characters that drew me in because as mysteries the stories in this book are generally pretty weak. But as an adult, reading this first installment to my son, I have been perplexed as to why I enjoyed them so much. I grew up loving board games & mysteries (Encyclopedia Brown & Murder She Wrote), so I predictably gobbled up this series of mini-mysteries set in the Clue mansion.
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