Murder at the Maple Run: Printable Cozy Word Search Mystery (PDF)

The town blames the boy. The Squad knows better.

Every March, when the nights freeze and the days thaw, the maples on Bramble Ridge start to run, and Bearberry Hollow gets ready for the Maple Run: a pancake breakfast, wagon rides through the sugarbush, and the Blue Ribbon syrup contest. This year, the Old Bramble Cider Mill is boiling syrup for the first time in forty years.

Then, on the morning of the Maple Run, the county's biggest syrup maker is found dead inside the Pikes' smoke-filled sugar shack. The fire marshal calls it an accident, and she blames eighteen-year-old Eli Pike for leaving the fire burning. But the latch was down. The cupola was shut. And nobody at the mill ties that knot.

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.

You don't read this mystery. You solve it.

• Read a short chapter. Five suspects, five stories, and one of them is a lie.
• Search the full-page puzzle. Every bold word from the story is hidden in the grid.
• Reveal the clue. The leftover letters spell a secret message that moves the case forward.
• Name the killer before Chapter 49, then find out if you beat the Squad.

Inside

• 50 story chapters and 50 word search puzzles: one complete, fair-play spring mystery
• Large print throughout: every word is 16-point or larger
• A hidden clue in every puzzle, with blanks to fill in
• Difficulty that grows with you: forward words first, then backward, then all eight directions
• Cartoon illustrations on every chapter, and 11 hidden crowns to find
• A map of the sugarbush, the Legend of the King's Maple, the Squad Code, a suspect notebook, and a clue tracker
• A complete Case Closed solution and a full answer key
• Cozy and clean: no gore, no bad language, and no animal is ever harmed

Case 3 of the King Bear Squad Word Search Mysteries, and every case stands on its own.

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