All right, folks--2012 is here! Let the challenge begin! I am setting up this post as the place to track everyone's progress on the Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge and also to link reviews, if you review the books you read. There will be two linkys--one for reviews and one for a wrap-up post. If you do not have a blog, please submit a final tally of books read in a comment below. I will accept updates through January 6, 2013.
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Well, I finished my first read of the Vintage Mystery Challenge of this year and it was a clever locked room mystery that gave a nod and a wink to John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle. Corsari's books, ranging from psychological novels to detective stories, were translated in many different languages – so this one might be available to some of you.
Full review of: Willy Corsari's Voetstappen op de trap (Footsteps on the Stairs, 1937).
Well I finished my first book for 2012 and it was for The Vintage Mystery challenge. Link is done. Happy New Year!
I got my first reviw posted. The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart. I will count it towards my Golden Age Girls challenge.
http://wordsmithonia.blogspot.com/2012/01/great-mistake-by-mary-roberts-rinehart.html
I'm off on my three part challenge! For the next two months it's Perilous Policeman. Link is up for my review of THE CASE OF THE BEAUTIFUL BODY.
Okay, I've got my first entry up on the blog: DEAD MAN'S WATCH by G.D.H. and M. Cole.
It qualifies for Lethal Locations.
The book is written by a husband and wife duo so I'm not sure I can use it for my other two themes.
Link is done.
Just for the record...the images connected to the links are a bit of a surprise for me. I don't remember choosing that as part of my Linky thingy....
Have added link for first challenge book completed for Lethal Locations. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers.
My first review is up, of "The Lighthearted Quest" by Ann Bridge. Recommended, with some reservations.
But you still want us doing the linky thing - right?
Anyway, just posted my second book for the challenge.
It qualifies for Lethal Locations and Cherchez L'Homme. :)
Yes, I do want you to use the Linky if at all possible. I hoped to save myself hunting through over a hundred comments (like I did last year)....
Hi Bev, just posted my first one ofthe Challenge LANDSCAPE WITH DEAD DONS - I really loved it, thanks so much it was a splendid gift and a great way to start 2012 - I didn't quite get the linky thing right, but I will next time!
Sergio
My second on is in... :)
My first challenge entry in the Deadly Decades section is my "pre-1900" entry: Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet," the book that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world (not to mention Dr. Watson). I've linked the review in the linky section above - please let me know if I did it right!
The images in the linky thingy is a happy suprise! I've just posted my link to my first, Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White", which was super. I might not have read it except for this challenge, so thanks for that! (Deadly Decades, pre-1900's).
Posted by fourth one today, Bev. DEATH IN KASHMIR by M.M. Kaye.
Golden Age Girls and Lethal Locations.
Added my first review for "cherchez le homme". Sherwood King's "Between Murders".
Ooof, sorry I didn't do the name thing right. It's been a bit of a crazy time lately, and we all know I ain't right to begin with :)
Just posted my first "golden age girls" review.
I've just put up my review of Pamela Branch's LION IN THE CELLAR. Branch is one of the authors I selected for my "Persons of Interest" theme.
My third decade for the Deadly Decades theme is Edgar Wallace's 1917 thriller, "The Secret House." It's sheer fun, with the action moving so fast the reader doesn't have time to realize how far-fetched the story is. Full review at ClassicMysteries.
Week four, and the roaring 20s. This week's entry: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," by Agatha Christie, first published in 1920. It was her first novel and the first to feature Hercule Poirot. Full review at Classic Mysteries.
I just posted a review of an engrossing historical mystery, set during the Rangaku in Japan, with a clever inverted plot at its core.
Full review of Bertus Aafjes' Een lampion voor een blinde (A Lantern for the Blind).
I've just posted the links to my second and third read for the challenge. Going great!
I've added the link for my review of "An Oxford Tragedy" by J.C. Masterman.
The link I provided earlier (#61) goes only to the book cover. I've added the correct link to the review at #64.
For the "Deadly Decade" of the 1940s this week, I offer a review of Elizabeth Daly's "Any Shape or Form." It's a classic puzzle-plot type of mystery and one of Daly's best (she was said to be Agatha Christie's favorite American author). It's #69 above, or at Classic Mysteries.
My review of WHO KILLED THE CURATE? by Joan Coggins is up at #70 above. Goodness, there are going to be lots of links when we're through with this challenge.
@Carol: I know! It would have been a much more compact and tidier list if I hadn't mysteriously programmed the thing to ask for a thumbnail picture. I don't know how that happened and I haven't been able to undo it. I figure at this point we'll just have to go with it....I don't want to lose anybody's entry.
Bev, I have a question. Would a book like The Floating Admiral count for my short story challenge. It's one novel, but each chapter is written by a different author (13 authors in all).
Have added my latest review - The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett. Theme - Location
Hi Bev - just added my review of TH White DARKNESS AT PEMBERLEY, another excellent Golden Age mystery set at Cambridge University.
Thanks for looking after us.
Sergio
@Ryan: As long as it fit a theme and is pre-1960, then, yes, it may count.
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