The Case of the Knife-Tossing Networker: 12 Mysteries Requiring Deductive Reasoning
by Paul R. Lloyd

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Paul challenges readers to solve 12 crimes using deductive reasoning. His main character is an unnamed writer and private eye who helps Chicago police lieutenant Lawson solve crimes. In true noir mystery style, he tells the stories in hardboiled first person point of view. Each story has a stopping point where you are asked “Whodunit?” That’s your cue to attempt to solve the mystery before reading the solution. Filled with tongue-in-cheek humor and challenging brain twisters. Enjoy!

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The pop-pop-pop ripped through the night to interrupt the distant howling of the Schuylkill County werewolf. Police Lieutenant Lawson and I held our position in a rock outcropping in the trees on Gobbler’s Peak south of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

“What do you think?” Lawson grabbed my shoulder from behind.

I kept my voice low because the shooting came from nearby. “Walther 10+1.”

“Twenty-two longs?” Lawson wore his police detective stare in the moonlight.

“Yeah. Target practice pistol.” I turned around.

“Little late for practice.”

“Wouldn’t hurt to check it out.”

“Where do we start?” Lawson looked under a skunk plant like there’d actually be a body at our feet.

I pointed with my Remington 760. “That campfire down the hill. See it? The one with the body next to the fire?”

“Yeah.”

“Let’s keep the silver bullets in our rifles.”

“Good idea. You never know when that werewolf will jump out at you.”

We arrived at the campfire where the body waited in silence unlike the werewolf howling in the woods on the next hill above the old stucco farmhouse with the big barn covered with painted printer’s plates purchased used from the Pottsville Republican.

Three women stood over the body. I spied the Walther in the dirt on the other side of the fire.

Lawson checked the body while I kept an eye and my Remington 760 on the ladies, a blonde, a redhead and a brunette.

Lawson looked up from the body. “No pulse, three bullet holes. You’re all under arrest.”

“Back off, Lawson. This ain’t Chicago and your badge doesn’t mean squat here. Let’s find out what’s going on.”

“Yeah, sure,” Lawson stood up, holding his rifle at port arms.

“You ladies want to explain what happened?” I asked.

The blonde said, “I like camping with Shirley here.”

“Ginger was washing the dinner plates with the redhead when the shots rang out,” said one of the ladies.

“I’m Nancy. Don’t trust the brunette. I never trusted her.” 

The redhead said, “I saw Nancy in that gun store at the Schuylkill County Mall this morning.”

“Okay, that’s enough,” I said.

“It is?” Lieutenant Lawson asked.

“Yeah, I know whodunit. It was…”

Whodunit?

Paul R. Lloyd
Author, Speaker and Business Executive
Speaker and author Paul R. Lloyd is the co-founder of Growth Groups, a strategic planning advisory service and co-founder of Zuk-Lloyd Associates, Inc., a Chicago area center for strategy, marketing and creativity.

Paul writes fiction, nonfiction and business communications. He is available as a ghost writer and editor. His fiction genre is literary suspense. In addition to publishing e-zines and newsletters for clients, Paul publishes his own email newsletter which you can sign up for to receive the 20 FREE videos mentioned on this page.

Paul leads the Write Time Writer’s Group in Geneva, Illinois and an online critique group. He is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers. Paul is available as a motivational speaker.

Paul R. Lloyd speaks to small groups, large groups, Christian groups and business groups. To arrange for Paul to speak at your event, send an email.  

Paul is the author of three books:

• Plant What Others Throw Away: Career and Life Lessons in Ordinary Objects  (PromiseGarden.com, paperback)
• Snippets, Tidbits and Creativity: A Business Casual Guide to Marketing (Zuk-Lloyd Associates, paperback)
• The Case of the Knife-Tossing Networker: 12 Mysteries Requiring Deductive Reasoning (Zuk-Lloyd Associates, e-book)

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