This challenge is a natural for me. Mystery and crime fiction are my genres of choice. I even like to read mystery reference books (although those don't count for this challenge). This will be the perfect opportunity to list all the mystery fiction I read. The challenge is hosted by The Crafty Book Nerd.
Here are the rules:
1.) The challenge starts January 1, 2013 and ends December 31, 2013.
2.) You can read any novel, short story or author just so that the genre is mystery/crime.
3.) 1 novel counts as 1 novel (1 novel is anything over 100 pages) of course but you will have to read 5 short stories to count as 1 novel.
There are more guidelines and information at this post.
You can aim at several levels:
5 books = Detective
10 books = Sergeant
15 books = Lieutenant
20 books = Captain
25 books = Chief
30+ books = Sherlock Holmes
I will aim at 30 books or more.
I will list all mysteries (or sets of short stories) here:
- The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K. C. Constantine
- Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- Publish or Perish by Margot Kinberg
- The Smoke by Tony Broadbent
- The Case of the Angry Actress by E. V. Cunningham
- The Last Houseparty by Peter Dickinson
- Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie
- The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
- Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulka
- Detective by Parnell Hall
- The Loyal Servant by Eva Hudson
- Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
- The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
- Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen
- Eye of the Red Tsar by Sam Eastland
- Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
- A Stone of the Heart by John Brady
- The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird
- The Ransom Game by Howard Engel
- The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
- Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
- Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang
- The Dark Winter by David Mark
- A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
- Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- Ten Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler
- Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
- Fell Purpose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Murder at the Mendel by Gail Bowen
- House of Evidence by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson
- Kaleidoscope by J. Robert Janes
- Death Wore White by Jim Kelly
- Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green
- The Mugger by Ed McBain
- The Pusher by Ed McBain
- Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser
- Green-Eyed Lady by Chuck Greaves
- Open Season by Archer Mayor
- Plots and Errors by Jill McGown
- A Question of Identity by Susan Hill
- The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
- Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
- Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage
- Skulduggery by William Marshall
- The Square of Revenge by Peter Aspe
- Detective Inspector Huss by Helene Tursten
- Unholy Ground by John Brady
- Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie
- Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
- The White Trilogy by Ken Bruen
- The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
- The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- The Infernal Detective by Kirsten Weiss
- The Yard by Alex Grecian
- Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
- The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
- Frantic (2007) by Katherine Howell
- Raven Black (2006) by Ann Cleeves
- White Nights (2008) by Ann Cleeves
- Dark Star (1991) by Alan Furst
- Dead Before Dying (1996) by Deon Meyer
- The Big Sleep (1949) by Raymond Chandler
1 comment:
Tracy, so glad that you will be reading along with us over at The Crafty Book Nerd in 2013!
Amy Yingling
The Crafty Book Nerd
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