Puzzle Description:

Excusa me sir... Noir,Guy Noir,private eye,what can i do for you?..I'ma know who'sa you are. My name a is a Gusepi Barabichi,and this a is a my a lovaly a wife a Florentina...Very nice to meet you. You didn't forget your glasses in your car did you Juice? Can i call you Juice for short?..No i'ma no like a dat...( I considered calling his wife Flo,or tiny Tina,but i saw the size of the purse she was carting around,and the computer in my head quickly figured size,angle and velocity,and i decided not to say anything.) So has your son been kidnapped?...No,no nothing like a dat. I'ma wanted him to take a over the family a beezaniss when a he a graduata from a college,but him a no wanted a dat so heem a no return a from a college. Please a Mr.Guy,you finda him a for me,and make a him come a home...Look Gusepi,i can find him and make sure he's safe,but he's old enough to make his own decisions,i can't force him to come home,but i'll try to convince him. What exactly is the family business?..We make a the finest a leather handbags,and a clothing. We also make a the leather upholstery for automobilia...So i take it that's your car parked across my office building?..Yes a how did you a know?.. I can smell the leather upholstery from here.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Oct 4, 2012

Wow, what a puzzle. It seems Joe there has quite a nose for business. And what a charming(?) wife with all her bling. She looks like miss Ice Queen herself. Funny.

luv of da ladies hat,da cigar & dat a handlebar mustache

Thx Norma,this one was hard to make,i'm running out of ideas.:)

Thx Tom.How about those glasses of hers.lol:)

You seem to need to find the son. I'm sure he could be found in some very unlikely, but interesting place.

If this is an old-fashioned family, when the son is found, he will get his hide tanned.

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by gator.

Most of the way through, look at the remaining 1 clue in column 18. It has to go in either R16C18 or R17C18. In either case, it makes it so that R19C19 has to be part of the 2 clue. This lets us get two dots and a black in column 19.

And then I'm not sure how to finish this without looking move than 2 moves ahead. I'm going to mark this as deep look-ahead for now unless someone can provide a way to finish this one.

Nice puzzle.

That's what i was thinking also Norma,now i have to come up with an interesting idea,lol.:)

Fine puzzle Al! Difficult!

Possibly John,or his father might end up being proud of him. I think his mother is too into herself to care though.:)

Thx Gator.:)

Thx Jota.:)

I can't believe i forgot to put in that he wanted Guy to find his son. Well you all figured it out anyways,lol.:)

I'm at 94% and can't seem to find a way forward without anything that starts to feel like trial and error.

: /

it's labeled "deep lookahead," which means you have to be able to see at least 3 steps out in your head, before you reach a contradiction. In cases like this, I'll save the puzzle, try one way, and if I run into a contradiction I'll restore my saved puzzle and try the other option. I'm bad at holding a lot of information in my head. ^_^

The key to finishing it for me were the two 4 clues in columns 29 and 23. If you try putting them too high up, the threes in rows 24 and 25 run out of places to go.

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