Mahjong Murder - by Jared Goudsmit (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For fans of cozy mysteries and logic puzzles, this fascinating whodunnit provides hours of screen-free fun.

You arrive at the world's largest mahjong tournament ready for relaxation and fun. But when the returning champion drops dead from a poison-coated tile, enigmatic Detective Victoria Sharpe gives you a number of crucial tasks to help her catch the killer:

• Decipher a collection of cryptic clues
• Scour attendance sheets listing over 40,000 potential suspects
• Eliminate innocent players and zero in on a group of conspirators
• Identify the murderer before the clock runs out and the tournament ends

Use your wits and solve the crime in this new and exciting genre of interactive puzzle game.

About the Author

Jared Goudsmit is a Chicago-based puzzle maker and playwright. He is the lead editor of the Universal Sunday crossword, and has created puzzles for The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Crosswords With Friends app. He has also constructed for the Apple News+ Emoji Game, Netflix's Keysmash game, and the Celebrity Cipher. As a playwright, his horror comedy "Dead Air" and film-noir parody "Blacktop Jungle" are published by YouthPLAYS, and his Wild West satire, "Derailed," is published by Samuel French. When he's not writing clues, you can find Jared playing cutthroat board games with his friends or eating toasted ravioli in his hometown, St. Louis.