The Missing Piece

Between March and September of the year 1995, five murders shook the professional Speed Puzzle Tour. The modus operandi was always the same: the murderer would amputate the victim of a limb, then leave on the body a piece of a Polaroid photograph depicting the corresponding limb of another man. Evidently, speed puzzle, a sport by then as popular as football and basketball, had become the hunting ground of a serious killer.
Suspects are in no short supply: from the tyrannical president of the erudite Society of Puzzlology to the reigning champion who has mysteriously vanished to the billionaire who started the Tour.
Can you solve the puzzle?
The Missing Piece has been translated into a dozen languages.

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The Missing Piece

Between March and September of the year 1995, five murders shook the professional Speed Puzzle Tour. The modus operandi was always the same: the murderer would amputate the victim of a limb, then leave on the body a piece of a Polaroid photograph depicting the corresponding limb of another man. Evidently, speed puzzle, a sport by then as popular as football and basketball, had become the hunting ground of a serious killer.
Suspects are in no short supply: from the tyrannical president of the erudite Society of Puzzlology to the reigning champion who has mysteriously vanished to the billionaire who started the Tour.
Can you solve the puzzle?
The Missing Piece has been translated into a dozen languages.

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The Missing Piece

The Missing Piece

by Antoine Bello
The Missing Piece

The Missing Piece

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Overview

Between March and September of the year 1995, five murders shook the professional Speed Puzzle Tour. The modus operandi was always the same: the murderer would amputate the victim of a limb, then leave on the body a piece of a Polaroid photograph depicting the corresponding limb of another man. Evidently, speed puzzle, a sport by then as popular as football and basketball, had become the hunting ground of a serious killer.
Suspects are in no short supply: from the tyrannical president of the erudite Society of Puzzlology to the reigning champion who has mysteriously vanished to the billionaire who started the Tour.
Can you solve the puzzle?
The Missing Piece has been translated into a dozen languages.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940153021065
Publisher: Antoine Bello
Publication date: 05/10/2016
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 827 KB

About the Author

Antoine Bello est un auteur de langue française, né à Boston en 1970. Il vit à New York. En 1996, il publie un recueil de nouvelles, Les funambules, aux Editions Gallimard. Couronnés du prix littéraire de la Vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, ces cinq textes mettent en scène des personnages surhumains lancés à la poursuite d'une perfection inaccessible. Le premier roman d'Antoine Bello, Eloge de la pièce manquante (1998) remporte un grand succès et est traduit dans une dizaine de langues. L'histoire se déroule dans l'univers fictif du puzzle de vitesse. Le roman se présente sous la forme de cinquante pièces - articles de journaux, rapports, interviews - sans cohérence apparente. Suivent deux romans formant un dyptique, Les falsificateurs (2007) et Les éclaireurs (2009), qui content l'ascension d'un jeune Islandais, Sliv Dartunghuver, au sein d'une organisation secrète internationale qui falsifie la réalité et réécrit l'histoire. Les Eclaireurs ont reçu le Prix France Culture - Telerama. En 2010, Enquête sur la disparition d'Emilie Brunet joue avec les codes du roman policier en rendant hommage à Agatha Christie et Edgar Poe. En 2012, il publie sur amazon deux nouvelles, L'Actualité et Légendes, initialement conçues pour figurer dans Les falsificateurs. Antoine Bello travaille actuellement à son prochain roman, l'histoire d'un jeune footballeur prodigieusement doué qui décline les offres des plus grands clubs pour jouer dans le championnat universitaire et décrocher le titre que son père était sur le point de gagner avant sa mort. Dans une vie précédente, Antoine a créé, développé puis revendu la société Ubiqus, qui propose des services de comptes rendus aux organisateurs de réunions. (Photo : Christopher Michel)

Table of Contents

The Enigma1
The Puzzle (in forty-eight pieces)11
1Singles Competition: The African Revival13
2The Golden Age of the Puzzle: A Retrospective17
3Murder at Point Bonita: A Serial Killer at Work?23
4Enter the Competition for the World's Most Difficult Puzzle26
5Krijek-Herrera31
6Letter from Harry Dunlap to Cecil Earp38
7Extracts from the Minutes of the Board Meeting of the APF (American Puzzle Federation)42
8Editorial by Katherine Houtkooper44
9Interview with Charles Wallerstein47
10Letter of Application from Rupert Clockwise to Diana Dobbs52
11Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society57
12Off the Cuff--Rae Koonis62
13World Tour of the Puzzle64
14The Most Difficult Puzzle in the World--Results69
15Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society75
16Homage to a Great Architect79
17Serial Killers and Dismemberment81
18Bjerringbro Mourns Its Champion86
19Olof Niels the Jutland Lumberjack88
20Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society92
21Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society95
22Summing Up by Charles Wallerstein98
23Letter from Thomas Carroll to Upton Sutter100
24My Father, Pete Carroll103
25Letter from Thomas Carroll to Cecil Earp109
26Gleaners Project Report111
27Citizen Wallerstein's Dirty Tricks122
28In Praise of The Missing Piece129
29On the Puzzology Society in General and the Gleaners Project in Particular138
30Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society144
31Extracts from the Minutes of the Board Meeting of the American Puzzle Federation149
32How I Discovered Spillsbury151
33Thunderbolt in Orlando161
34Newspaper Extract164
35Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society165
36E-mail from Harry Dunlap to Cecil Earp168
37Newspaper Extract171
38Vitamix. Think Harder, for Longer172
39Newspaper Extract174
40The Detective Novel during the Depression175
41The Polaroid Killer Strikes Again?185
42Wallerstein Tries to Reassure His Troops187
43Spillsbury's First Defeat189
44Free-for-All in Puzzleland196
45Extracts from the Minutes of the Board Meeting of the American Puzzle Federation198
46Extracts from the Minutes of the Puzzology Society200
47Extracts from the Minutes of the Board Meeting of the American Puzzle Federation208
48215
The Solution217
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