Murder at the Bearberry Ball: Printable Cozy Word Search Mystery (PDF)

The masks come off at midnight. So does everything else.

An ice storm brings down the Old Oak the week before Bearberry Hollow's masked winter ball, and beneath its roots is an iron box with a crown on the lid that has waited two hundred years for a key. The town clockmaker has worn that key under his shirt his whole life. He calls it the key to nothing.

Then he is found in the Town Hall tower at midnight, the clock stopped at 11:52, the key gone, and the Squad discovers that the same thing happened at the same oak on the same night in 1827.

Instant PDF download. 137 pages, letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). Print the whole case, or one chapter at a time, on any home printer.

Solve the mystery one puzzle at a time

Fifty short chapters, fifty large print word searches, and a hidden clue in every one: read the chapter, find the words, and the leftover letters spell out what the Squad knows. Track the suspects in the Case Notebook, make your accusation before Chapter 49, and score yourself against the Squad.

Inside

• 50 story chapters and 50 word search puzzles in true large print (every word 16 point or larger)
• A fair-play mystery with a full solution and scoring page
• Seven chapters from the founders' own journal, set in the winter of 1826
• The answer to the series' oldest question: what the founders carved inside the Old Oak
• The Crown Count: 17 hidden crowns to find in the illustrations
• Cozy and clean: no animals are ever harmed in Bearberry Hollow

Case 6, the last case of the first King Bear Squad series, and it stands on its own.

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