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)