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.  

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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)