Crime And Puzzlement: 24 Solve-them-yourself Picture Mysteries

These are great for use with kids and adults. Engaging and challenging.

I first found this book at my local library and enjoyed it so much I decided to purchase the first three books in the series.Each puzzle consists of a crime scene sketch as well as a description of the events leading up to the situation depicted in the picture. Through a series of brain-busting questions, your goal is to deduce what really happened. In the back of the book there are solutions to each mini-mystery so you can check your answers (or cheat).The clues are really ingenious - for example: the placement of silverware on a table may tell you the killer was left-handed, the direction of shards of glass from a broken window may indicate that the robbery was staged, or the collection of items left in an abandoned hotel room may allow you to recreate a description of a man no one has seen.Great fun for mystery/puzzle enthusiasts!* A NOTE TO PARENTS: The book does feature murder and death throughout and may not be suitable for the youngest of amateur detectives.

Great series of books for intro to forensic science. Great bellringers.

Great idea and fun to do. However, many of the drawings are unclear as to what objects are, so it is impossible to interpret them as evidence. A lot of times we had to read the answer and go back and say, " That's supposed to be WHAT?!" So... overall I'd say about 50% you'll be able to get and the rest you'll have to look up the answer just to find out what certain objects and/or visual effects are.

I use these in my 10th grade classroom to introduce argument, writing claim, selection of evidence,etc. My students love solving these and it’s a fun way to learn and problem solve while also developing claims (about who dun-it) and using evidence to support claims!

I was able to use a few of these to teach argument. Many of these were questionable for me to use because they are crimes of murder in most cases. I knew this when I purchased the book, but was hoping for a few more crimes that weren't obviously murders. Fun for middle schoolers to try and figure out.

These are really fun. They start a lot of arguments in my classroom. Some scenarios are better than others. I'd say there are 6 really good ones and 3 or 4 really bad ones. most are okay.

I bought this and another of these books by Treat to facilitate an advanced reading class that needed enrichment. I got much more than I expected. After reading this book, I find myself looking at nearly everything more closely and asking more questions. In an unrelated (I thought) book that I had ordered at the same time, Teaching Argument Writing, this book is used to introduce how to set up logical thinking and arguments! So I will be using the book for both my argument teaching and my reading teaching! Bonus!

This book was fun to do and entertaining, although some of the crime scenes were a bit obscure to work out - but fun nevertheless!

Absolute rubbish. Hardly any of the mysteries actually made sense,

Very interesting!