2025 Color Coded 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.

Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace, 1925

Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie

The Blue Horse of Taxco by Kathleen Moore Knight

• note for next time? The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace
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2. A book with "Red" or any shade of Red in the title/on the cover.

The Adventure of the Red Circle by Arthur Conan Doyle (k)

Red Aces by Edgar Wallace, 1929

Case of the Crimson Kiss - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Red Mass by Valentine Williams

• note for next time? The Scarlet Letters by Ellery Queen
• note for next time? The Red Lamp by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• note for next time? A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• note for next time? Crimson Friday by Dorothy Cameron Disney
• note for next time? The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace

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

The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Case of the Blonde Bonanza - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Lame Canary - Erle Stanley Gardner

• note for next time? Gold Comes in Bricks by A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• note for next time? The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout
• note for next time? The Golden Goose by Ellery Queen
•  note for next time: Mys. of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (gutenberg)

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

Green Hazard - Manning Coles (1945)

The Green Ribbon - Edgar Wallace (1930)

Case of the Green Eyed Sister - Erle Stanley Gardner

The Jade Venus by George Harmon Coxe

• note for next time? The Man in the Green Hat by Manning Coles
•   "The Greene Murder Case" by S. S. Van Dine for this one!

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

The Wisdom of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton

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 Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin (2004)

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)

• note for next time? The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
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7. A book with "White" or any shade of White in the title/on the cover.

The White Elephant Mystery by Ellery Queen Jr.

The White Dress by Mignon G. Eberhart

The White Cockatoo by Mignon G. Eberhart

White Rider by Leslie Charteris

• note for next time? The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• note for next time? White Face by Edgar Wallace

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

Mystery of the Gold Box by Valentine Williams

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

Case of the Gold Diggers Purse - Erle Stanley Gardner

The False Purple by Sydney Horler (1932)

• note for next time? The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen
• note for next time? Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy Hughes
• note for next time? The Silver Key by Edgar Wallace
• The Mystery of the Ivory Charm Nancy Drew *faded page)

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

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

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Pattern - Mignon G. Eberhart

Miss Paisley on a Diet by John Pierce (1969) 

The Willow Pattern Van Gulik (faded page_