The Sudoku Puzzle Murders by Parnell Hall

Author:Parnell Hall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

“Good,” Harper said. “If this is what the crossword means, what have we got?”

“We’ve got numbers. And not very interesting ones at that. Don’t you wish someone would invent a new number. Like a snurf, somewhere between a seven and an eight.” At Harper’s look, Cora said, “All right, all right. You know as much as I do. Which isn’t good, ‘cause I don’t know squat. The puzzle says the line in the middle. Sudoku have rows and columns. As well as three-by-three boxes. If it said the box in the middle, it would be easy. It would be the center square. That was Paul Lynde, as I recall. Remember him? ‘Why do motorcycle riders wear leather jackets? Because chiffon wrinkles in the wind.’”

“Cora.”

“Sorry. But it’s not a square, it’s a line. Sudoku rows are horizontal, columns are vertical. So the line in the middle would be the fifth row across, the horizontal row that goes through the center square of the center square.”

Harper put up his hand. “Don’t start that again.”

“Never fear. Anyway, that gives us what we knew all along. The numbers one through nine, scrambled in a particular order. And that order is: five-one-eight-three-two-seven-nine-four-six.”

“Okay,” Harper said. “What could that be?”

Cora cocked her head. “That private eye have a safe?”

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