Corpus de Crossword

Nero Blanc. Berkley Publishing Group, $13 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-425-19021-0

The pseudonymous Nero Blanc (the husband-wife writing team of Steve Zettler and Cordelia Frances Biddle) offers another dandy puzzler in Corpus de Crossword. PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham investigate when the body of a young woman turns up on a building site in a quaint New England town threatened by development.

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