The phrase "a puzzling conclusion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a conclusion that is confusing or difficult to understand.
Example: "After analyzing the data, the researchers arrived at a puzzling conclusion that left many questions unanswered."
Alternatives: "a perplexing outcome" or "an enigmatic result."
This brings the novel to a puzzling conclusion.
(The way Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it, Holmes and his future sleuthing partner, Watson, met when both were hunting for lodgings.) Holmes and Watson are soon on the case, which leads to a puzzling conclusion that the murders are being committed by a dead man.
This is a puzzling conclusion because, in a study conducted directly by the CDC, epidemiologists assessed the risk for neurologic and renal impairment associated with past exposure to Thimerosal-containing vaccine (TCV) using automated data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) and found a 7.6-fold increased risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy [ 20].
It is a puzzling finale for a puzzling game.
So the puzzling conclusion is that the poor spend money on expensive cures rather than cheap prevention: in Indian surveys, they prefer to go to private doctors who over-medicated (most often injections, drips and antibiotics); their healthcare was often unnecessary and even dangerous.
At any rate, the presentment of an unholy alliance against Kant that Jacobi was unwittingly forging with scholastic metaphysics — his otherwise natural foe — is perhaps the reason for the abrupt, even puzzling, conclusion that he gave the Dialogue.
(Matthew 22 13-14) Between now and then I encourage you to see what you can make of the puzzling conclusion to this parable.
If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?" I could, at this stage, point out that if we are to attribute all the views of all of her characters to an author then it will lead us to some puzzling conclusions: that Harper Lee, for example, writing racist dialogue in To Kill a Mockingbird, was a racist.
Arbitrary notions of the "head" and "tail" lead to other puzzling conclusions.
The general form of Church's argument has been exploited by others to reach further puzzling conclusions.
