Puzzling Stories

Puzzling Stories
Author: Steven Willemsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1800735928

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.

Murder Most Puzzling

Murder Most Puzzling
Author: Stephanie von Reiswitz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1452171637

Murder Most Puzzling is a gorgeous and witty book that invites readers to play detective and solve a series of absorbing, murder-mystery-themed puzzles. Readers are cast as the faithful sidekick to amateur sleuth Medea Thorne in order to solve 20 puzzling cases. Meet a cast of colorful characters—from ghost hunter extraordinaire Augustin Artaud, to Leonard Fanshawe, a competitor in the Annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival. • A witty riff on the classic whodunit that brings out everyone's inner detective • Each mystery is sumptuously illustrated. • The mysteries require different deductive tactics, making them a good brain exercise A body in the topiary garden, a death at a clairvoyants' convention, and the mysterious accident of the boating lake—prepare for a whirlwind adventure, laced with humor and a dash of the macabre. This book will delight fans of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Gorey. • This is a collection of darkly humorous puzzles. • Features illustrations in a gorgeous gothic style by Stephanie von Reiswitz • Perfect for Edward Gorey fans, mystery buffs, puzzle addicts, and fans of true crime podcasts and TV shows • You'll love this book if you love books like The Gashlycrumb by Edward Gorey, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket, and The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket.

Found Audio

Found Audio
Author: N. J. Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781937512576

"Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams." Despite being explicitly instructed not to, curiosity gets the better of Singh and she mails a transcription of the cassettes with her analysis to an acquaintance before vanishing. The man who bore the cassettes, too, has disappeared. The journalist was unnamed. Here--for the first time--is the complete archival manuscript of the mysterious recordings accompanied by Singh's analysis."--

The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths
Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1642502197

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor. This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been committed—but how could it have happened? Curated by Maxim Jakubowski, one of the crime genre’s most renowned editors, this volume features never-before-seen stories by acclaimed authors—including British Science Fiction Award–winner Eric Brown, Derringer Award–winner O'Neil de Noux, and multiple CWA Dagger Award–winners and nominees.

Advanced Puzzle Adventures

Advanced Puzzle Adventures
Author: Sarah Dixon
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780746007532

Contains 3 solve-it-yourself adventures. 10-14 yrs.

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Author: Tony Hillerman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 836
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618012718

In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, and Sara Paretsky.

The Potato Chip Puzzles

The Potato Chip Puzzles
Author: Eric Berlin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142416371

Winston and his friends enter a puzzle contest to win fifty thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning, in a book that includes puzzles for the reader to solve.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544034643

A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.

Impossible Puzzle Films

Impossible Puzzle Films
Author: Miklos Kiss
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-01-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474406742

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our mind's blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke.

Write Your Own Mystery Story

Write Your Own Mystery Story
Author: Tish Farrell
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756516413

Examines mystery writing, from how to get started to learning the tricks of the trade.