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Reginald Van Feisty, owner of the world famous chocolate factory, Dutch Delight Chocolates, is excited about his brand new recipe for chocolate. But, before he can manufacture even the first chocolate bar, the recipe is stolen! Have your students discover who stole Van Feisty's famous chocolate recipe and they'll not only be great detectives, they'll be masters of logical thinking. There are nine suspects, but which one is guilty? This mystery becomes a vehicle for teaching logical thinking. In solving the mystery, students will: differentiate between valid conclusions and invalid assumptions, use syllogisms to reach valid assumptions, recognize false premises, solve deductive matrix puzzles, and decode a secret message. Each logic puzzle presents clues that allow students to narrow the field of suspects to the one guilty person. Extra worksheets give you related deductive logic puzzles for extra practice. Kids will eat it up! Have your students solve even more mysteries with Crime Scene Detective, Mystery Disease, Mystery Science, Detective Club, and The Loose Caboose.

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Mary Ann Carr began writing mysteries for kids to solve while teaching gifted students. She has taught grades 1-7, working with gifted children as a gifted and talented education resource teacher for 14 years. She currently teaches in The College of William and Mary's summer enrichment program. Carr recently retired as a resource teacher and lives on the Chesapeake Bay in a rural county in Virginia.

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