2023 Reading The Mystery League

 

I am challenging myself to read through the entire series of The Mystery League during 2023. (The last time I did this was 2017). Read all about the League at this blog. Titles below are linked to synopses/reviews. Titles completed are highlighted in green.

1. The Hand of Power. Edgar Wallace, 1930
2. The Curse of Doone. Sydney Horler, 1930
3. The House of Sudden Sleep. John Hawk, 1930
4. Jack O'Lantern. George Goodchild, 1930
5. Mystery of Burnleigh Manor. Walter Livingston, 1930
6. The Invisible Host. Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, 1930
7. The Day of Uniting. Edgar Wallace, 1930
8. The Monster of Grammont. George Goodchild, 1930
9. The House of Terror. Edward Woodward, 1930
10. The Hardway Diamonds Mystery. Miles Burton, 1930
11. Peril. Sydney Horler, 1930
12. The Maestro Murders. Frances Shelley Wees, 1931
13. Turmoil at Brede. Seldon Truss, 1931
14. Death Walks in Eastrepps. Francis Beeding, 1931
15. The Secret of High Eldersham. Miles Burton, 1931
16. The Gutenberg Murders. Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, 1931
17. The Merrivale Mystery. James Corbett, 1931
18. The Tunnel Mystery, J. C. Lenehan, 1931
19. The Mystery of Villa Sineste, Walter Livingston, 1931
20. The Hunterstone Outrage, Seldon Truss, 1931
21. Murder in the French Room, Helen Joan Hultman, 1931
22. Bungalow on the Roof, Achmed Abdullah, 1931
23. The False Purple. Sydney Horler, 1932
24. Two and Two Make Twenty-Two. Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, 1932
25. For Sale - Murder. Will Levinrew, 1932
26. The Ebony Bed Murder, Rufus Gillmore, 1932
27. Spider House, Van Wyck Mason, 1932
28. The Mardi Gras Murders. Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, 1932
29. The Stingaree Murders. W. Shepard Pleasants, 1932
30. Death Points a Finger. Will Levinrew, 1933
31. * Death Hold the Key / Scotland Yard Can Wait. David Frome
    
    

* #31 was planned to be Death Holds the Key by David Frome. The League did not survive to publish it. It was later published by Grosset and Dunlap under the title Scotland Yard Can Wait.

2023 Vintage Scavenger Hunt

 

Bev Hankins at My Reader's Block is sponsoring the 2023 Vintage Scavenger Hunt. The challenge page is located here. 

The goal is to find as many objects on the scavenger hunt list as possible on the covers of the mystery books you read. I am working the Golden Age era. Here is the list:

Progress will be recorded on this spreadsheet.

2022 Abra Cadavers

 The 2022 Abra Cadavers game is located here.

• Get a Single by reading one book. 
The Big Shot by Frank L. Packard

• Get a Double by reading two books by a second author
The Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson Carr
The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr

• Get a Triple by reading three books by a third author 
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogét by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

• Get a Home Run by reading four books by a fourth author.
The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Crimson Kiss by Erle Stanley Gardner
Fingers of Fong by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Valley of Little Fears by Erle Stanley Gardner

• You have hit for the Cycle once you complete a single, double, triple, AND a home run.


• Get a Foul by giving up on a foul one with the dreaded DNF (Did Not Finish)

The Martian by Andy Weir

• Get a Bunt by reading a short story.

The Image in the Mirror by Dorothy L. Sayers 

• Get a Walk by listening to an audiobook 
Death Blew Out the Match Crime Club radio dramatization

• Get a Stolen Base by stealing (reading) a book which has been submitted to any of our previous or current challenges - in any year - by someone else. 
With One Stone by Frances & Richard Lockridge, read by Bev Hankins in 2021.

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Strike Out when a book strikes out of your house (out to the library, loaned out, mailed out, given away, sold, thrown out, audiobook taken outdoors for a walk, book taken elsewhere to read, etc.)