Every time there is a holiday my Bride laments that I am the hardest person in the world to shop for. I don’t understand her statement, but suffice it to say, she is adamant about it. She has never been able to buy me clothes, since I have been a clothier for ever, and items for my other hobbies gets her stymied. I have to say that she still perseveres.
One year she found a gift, she was sure that I would like and she was right. It was a jigsaw puzzle by the same company that produces some of the Wine Murder Mystery Parties that we have held with our friends, and that I mentioned in an earlier post. There is a short novel about two warring winemakers and one roaring drunk. You first read the book, and then you assemble the thousand piece puzzle to solve the mystery.
I found it to be fun and interesting and completed it all by the time New Years Eve was celebrated. It was just another reason to enjoy several glasses of wine.
The Wine Raconteur 
A friend gave me a plastics bag with lots of jigsaw pieces, saying a friend had given it to her. There was no box that I could see what the puzzle was about so I just started putting the pieces together as I could. There were no edge pieces at all whitch made it even more difficult but I kept going anyway. I have 35 pieces left with around a hundred or so pieces left to fill in apart from the edge pieces. It was a shock to see the gun appearing as I did the puzzle and made me wonder what the heck was the puzzle about. Taking a picture of the puzzle using Google Lens I found this web page and so I now rest knowing what the puzzle is about.
Brian,
Thank you for your perseverance in solving the puzzle, as I remember having the complete set, and I am glad that the puzzle now makes sense, when I had to invert the cask upside down, the mystery to the story was solved.
– John