Gareth Moore, Laura Jayne Ayres

The Armchair Detective Puzzle Book

Test Your Inner Sleuth with over 70 Puzzles to Solve

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 09/10/2025

ISBN: 9781789296969

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Activity & Puzzles

Binding: Paperback

Size: 234 x 153 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Illustration: Black and white puzzles throughout

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

Put your logic and reasoning to the test and use your powers of deduction to solve over 70 fiendish cases.

Can you think like a detective? Sit back in your armchair, grab a pen and get ready to put your sleuthing skills to the test with this bumper casefile of over 70 criminally difficult puzzles to solve.

Work out whodunnit by observing the details of each crime, examining the clues and investigating the suspects, and piece it all together to stop the culprit in their tracks. Pit your wits against audacious thieves, mysterious murderers and many more perplexing preparators besides, as you try to solve the crimes in time.

Featuring an array of puzzles, from logic and word challenges to picture and memory games and more, The Armchair Detective Puzzle Book is the ultimate book for fans of murder mysteries and true crime alike.

Sales points:

  • A stunning gift package, this is the perfect book to thumb through from the comfort of your armchair. Featuring handy flaps to mark your place as you try to work out whodunnit.

  • Packed with a range of crimes to solve, and with a mix of puzzles to test all areas of your deductive skills, this puzzle book will help you to improve your mental agility so you really can think like a detective.

  • Crime-themed puzzles remain hugely popular, and this will be an unmissable package for crime fans. With 70 quick-fire crimes to solve, this will feel like great value for money.

  • Written by Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, the team behind The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book and The Whodunnit Puzzle Book.

  • Also available in the series: The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book (over 60,000 copies sold in the English language and translated in over 10 languages), The Whodunnit Puzzle Book (over 40,000 copies sold in the English language). Hacked! (over 15,000 copies sold in the English language), and The Undercover Agent Puzzle Book (over 12,000 copies sold in the English language).

About the Author:

Gareth Moore

Dr Gareth Moore (B.Sc (Hons) M.Phil Ph.D) is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including Anti-stress Puzzles, Ultimate Dot to Dot, Brain Games for Clever Kids®, Lateral Logic, Extreme Mazes and The Ordinance Survey Puzzle Book. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone and have sold in 35 different languages. He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.

About the Author:

Laura Jayne Ayres

Laura Jayne Ayres is a puzzle writer and researcher. After studying Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, she worked as a playwright before joining Dr Gareth Moore’s puzzle team. Books that she has worked on include Hacked: The Cyber Crime Puzzle Book, The Great British Puzzle Book, The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book, The Nautical Puzzle Book and The Ordnance Survey Kids’ Adventure Book.

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