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The Mercer Files: 100 Halloween Neighborhood Murder Mystery Cases
Paperback
Coloring & Activity BooksPuzzlesWord Search
Publisher: Tessa Hollcroft
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every puzzle in this book is a murder on your street.
The Mercer Files collects 100 original whodunit word search cases, all set on one
suburban street on trick-or-treat night - the one night a killer needn't hide his
face. Each is built around a single trick: the evidence isn't beside the puzzle,
it's inside it. Solve the grid, and three pieces of evidence surface on their own.
Here's how it works. Cross out every word from the case's list that you can find
in the grid. One word will be missing - that's your first clue. Then look at the
letters no word touched. Read them in order, and they spell out the rest: the
culprit, the means, and the site. The letter boxes beneath each case tell you
exactly how long each answer runs, so there's only one way the evidence fits
together.
The book builds from a gentle 8x8 grid in Case 1 to an 11x11 grid with
backward-running answers by Case 100, so it plays fair whether you're new to word
searches or you've been doing them for decades. A fully worked example opens the
book, so nobody has to guess at the mechanic before the first case.
Includes:
- 100 original cases across 25 settings, from a candy bowl to the ravine behind
the houses
- Four difficulty tiers, Beginner through Expert
- Complete solutions for every case
- A short scene from Detective Mercer's desk opening each case
Every case has been independently verified for a single, unambiguous solution
before publication.
Find the words. Follow the clues. Unmask the culprit.
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