Deadly Art Puzzle is a supplementary text to be used with an advanced accounting course or a financial accounting theory course. This academic novel would be ideal for an MBA program or a finance course which has a light coverage of accounting and could be used in CPA firms' in-house training programs. This novel is also suitable for a law school course on financial accounting.

This instructional novel mixes fraud, murder, art, ethics, taxation, and accounting together to help students learn advanced accounting process. Martin Burnside, an owner of an art gallery, goes to Glenn Falls to judge an art exhibit. As a retired CPA and part-time professor, he uses his forensic accounting background to solve a "who dun' it" plot. Along the way, business acquisition practices and advanced accounting concepts are elucidated in a way both students and instructors will find gripping as well as informative.