Mystery Marathon 2024

Mile / Pages / Author / Title

1 / 167 / Anthony Gilbert / A Case for Mr. Crook

2 / 182 / Margery Allingham / Flowers for the Judge

3 / 327 / Edgar Wallace / Blue Hand

4 / 192 / Manning Coles / No Entry

5 / 167 / Rex Stout / Silent Speaker

6 / 307 / Mignon Eberhart / The White Dress

7 / 153 estimated / Herman Petersen / The House in the Wilderness

8 / 303 / Frank L. Packard / The Gold Skull Murders

9/ 311 / Edgar Wallace / The Green Ribbon

10 / 100 / Edgar Wallace / The Red Aces

11 / 214 / Carter Dickson / The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

12 / 171 / Erle Stanley Gardner / The Case of the Blonde Bonanza

13 / 290 / Mignon G. Eberhart / The Pattern

14 / 184 / Leslie Charteris / The Saint in Pursuit

15 / 324 / Frances Noyes Hart / The Bellamy Trial

16 / 315 / Helen Reilly / Murder in the Mews

17 / 272 / John Rhode / Murder at Bratton Grange

26.2 / 14 / Arthur Conan Doyle / The Case of Black Peter

2024 Vintage Scavenger Hunt

Bev Hankins at My Reader's Block is sponsoring the 2024 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.  

2024 Color Coded Reading Challenge

This challenge, hosted by Bev Hankins,  is located here.  

Read in previous challenges

Planned

Completed

Read nine books in the following categories:

1. A book with "Blue" or any shade of Blue in the title/on the cover.

Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace, 1925

Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie

The Blue Horse of Taxco by Kathleen Moore Knight

2. A book with "Red" or any shade of Red in the title/on the cover.

Red Aces by Edgar Wallace, 1929

Case of the Crimson Kiss - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Red Mass by Valentine Williams

3. A book with "Yellow" or any shade of Yellow in the title/on the cover.

The Case of the Blonde Bonanza - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Lame Canary - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart

4. A book with "Green" or any shade of Green in the title/on the cover.

The Green Ribbon - Edgar Wallace (1930)

Case of the Green Eyed Sister - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Jade Venus by George Harmon Coxe

5. A book with "Brown" or any shade of Brown in the title/on the cover.

The Curse of the Bronze Lamp - Carter Dickson

Case of the Borrowed Brunette - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Bronze Hand by Carolyn Wells (1925)

6. A book with "Black" or any shade of Black in the title/on the cover.

The Adventure of Black Peter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903-4

Black Orchids - Rex Stout

The Ebony Bed Murder by Rufus Gillmore (1932)
Acts of Black Night by Kathleen Moore Knight (1938)

7. A book with "White" or any shade of White in the title/on the cover.

The White Dress by Mignon G. Eberhart

The White Cockatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart

White Rider by Leslie Charteris

8. A book with any other color in the title/on the cover (Purple, Orange, Silver, Pink, etc).

The Gold Skull Murders - Frank L. Packard (1931)

Case of the Gold Diggers Purse - Erle Stanley Gardner

The False Purple by Sydney Horler (1932)

9. A book with a word/image that implies color in the title/on the cover

The Pattern - Mignon G. Eberhart

 (Rainbow, Polka-dot, Plaid, Shadow, Paint, Ink, etc).

Miss Paisley on a Diet by John Pierce (1969) 

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones Challenge

This is just a personal challenge, to see how many of the Haycraft Queen Cornerstone mysteries I have (highlighted in yellow) and those I have read (highlighted in green). RM

2023 Abra Cadavers

 

 The 2023 Abra Cadavers game is located here.

• Get a Single by reading one book. 

  Miles Burton, The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (Mystery League #10)

• Get a Double by reading two books by a second author
Anna Katherine Green, The Circular Study
Anna Katherine Green, XYZ: A Detective Story

• Get a Triple by reading three books by a third author 
John Dickson Carr, The Man Who Couldn't Shudder
John Dickson Carr, The Sleeping Sphinx
John Dickson Carr, The Emperor's Snuff Box

• Get a Home Run by reading four books by a fourth author.
Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End (Richard Jury #13)
Martha Grimes, The Case Has Altered (Richard Jury #14)
Martha Grimes, The Stargazey (Richard Jury #15)
Martha Grimes, The Lamorna Wink (Richard July #16)

• 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)

• Get a Bunt by reading a short story.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House

• 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. 
Margery Allingham, The Fear Sign, read by Bev Hankins, 2023.

• 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.)
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Fiery Fingers