The Murder Mystery Puzzles of Edgar Rice Burroughs Vol.1

INTRODUCTION

Between 1932 and 1935 Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote seven murder mystery puzzles, featuring ERB's last series character to appear in book form: Police Inspector Muldoon and his trusted biographer and sidekick, Edgar Rice Burroughs. These puzzles appeared in Rob Wagner's Script Weekly, an American west coast magazine.

The solutions were mailed in by readers and appeared in later issues. In one case, Edgar Rice Burroughs provided the solution himself.

They were all later collected into the rarity "Murder!" A Collection of Short Murder Mystery Puzzles which had a run of 1045 copies.

The titles flagged with a bullet were provided from various people's copies of the original Script magazines to the Burroughs Fan community (collected notably by Bill Hillman's ERBzine and The Burroughs Bibliophiles) and are included in this volume.

The Terrace Drive Murder

The Lightship Murder

Who Murdered Mr. Thomas?

The Red Necktie

Bank Murder

The Dupuyster Case

Murder at Midnight

The Gang Murder

The Dark Lake Murder

-Ed