This challenge is the one that motivated me to get involved with reading challenges. I love mysteries from the 30's, 40's and 50's. My favorite author, period, is Rex Stout. I have read all the mysteries by Sayers, Allingham, and Tey and still have a lot of authors I want to read or re-read.
Vintage Mystery Reading challenge 2012
Organized by: My Reader's Block
From January 1st 2012 to December 31st 2012Goal: Read 8 books in one or more themes. Books must have been written before 1960 and be from the mystery category (crime fiction, detective fiction, espionage, etc.).
Check this link for rules: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/10/vintage-mystery-reading-challenge-2012.html
I am going to go for two themes, Golden Age Girls (8 books by a female author) and Cherchez l'Homme (8 books by a male author). I have a few authors in mind but in most cases don't have specific books chosen.
Golden Age Girls
- Christianna Brand: Heads You Lose
- Christianna Brand: Green for Danger
- Ngaio Marsh: Night at the Vulcan
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Cape Cod Mystery
- Helen Reilly: Lament for the Bride
- Helen Reilly: The Dead Can Tell
- Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
- Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary
- Eric Ambler: A Coffin for Dimitrios
- Akimitsu Takagi: The Tattoo Murder Case
- S. S. Van Dine: The Greene Murder Case
- Earl Derr Biggers: The House Without a Key
- Cyril Hare: With a Bare Bodkin
- Cyril Hare: An English Murder
- Rex Stout: Fer-de-Lance
- Ed McBain: Cop Hater
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