G. T. Karber and the Murdle puzzle books

From a daily grid to a trilogy

Karber studied mathematics and English literature at the University of Arkansas and later earned an MFA in cinematic arts at USC. Murdle puts two different skills side by side. The story gives the case its setting and suspects, while the clue list asks what can be ruled out before any culprit can be named.

Volume 1 introduces the original sequence and moves from elementary puzzles to much harder ones. Volumes 2 and 3 continue Logico's story. There is a difference between learning to mark a grid and following what happens to the cast across a trilogy. The order matters more for the second of those pleasures.

What changes across the separate adventures

The School of Mystery goes back to Logico's training at Deduction College. The Case of the Seven Skulls connects a run of investigations through a museum's missing artifacts. Merry Murdle puts the cases into a Christmas countdown. Each supplies a reason to come back for the next problem beyond the appeal of another empty grid.

Heist changes the reader's role by putting Miss Ruby at the center. It is the book I review and score here. The bibliography lists the other main puzzle books separately, and the order guide explains where the original trilogy ends and the separate adventures begin.

Murdle books in order