Challenge Complete: My Kind of Mystery

Catch your breath:  we launch February 1^st, 2014 – February 28^th, 2015!

Carolyn over at Riedel Fascination took a drink of the challenge-sponsor Kool-Aid and launched not one, but three new challenges for those of us who love to challenge ourselves when reading.  I've opted to jump in for her My Kind of Mystery Challenge.  To sign up--click on the link.

Levels

I joined up for the top level "Lost Artifacts" (of course) and have now completed 40 books. Here's the list:

1. Death by Chick Lit by Lynn Harris (2/1/14)

2. Exit Actors, Dying by Margot Arnold (2/4/14)

3. Where There's Love, There's Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocamp (2/5/14)

4. Shelf Life by Douglas Clark (2/6/14)

5. Gambit by Rex Stout (2/8/14)

6. You Can Write a Mystery by Gillian Roberts (2/9/14)

7. Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson (2/12/14)

8. Death Walks on Cat Feet by D. B. Olsen (2/13/14)

9. Cursed in the Act by Raymond Buckland (2/16/14)

10. Made Up to Kill by Kelley Roos (2/18/14)

11. Ellery Queen's 20th Anniversary Annual by Ellery Queen, ed (2/22/14)

12. The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie (2/25/14)

13. The Purple Parrot by Clyde Clason (2/25/14)

14. To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas (2/26/14)

15. The Darker the Night by Herbert Brean (3/3/14)

16. Murder in the Vatican by Ann Margaret Lewis (3/5/14)

17. The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd (3/8/14)

18. Shelf Life by Douglas Clark (3/11/14)

19. Endless Night by Agatha Christie (3/13/14)

20. India Black & the Gentleman Thief by Carol K. Carr (3/19/14)

21. A Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie Logan (3/21/14)

22. The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout (3/23/14)

23. Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt by Arthur Train (3/25/14)

24. The Clue of the Leather Noose by Donald Bayne Hobart (3/31/14)

25. The Coral Princess Murders by Frances Crane (4/5/14)

26. Decoded by Mai Jia (4/5/14)

27. After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman (4/6/14)

28. A Hangman's Dozen by Alfred Hitchcock, ed (4/7/14)

29. Naked Is the Best Disguise by Samuel Rosenberg (4/8/14)

30. The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes by Denis O. Smith (4/13/14)

31. Gale Warning by Hammond Innes (4/15/14)

32. Murder at the Museum of Natural History by Michael Jahn (4/18/14)

33. Death by the Book by Julianna Deering (4/21/14)

34. The Lady of Sorrows by Anne Zouroudi (4/26/14)

35. Dorothy Dixon & the Double Cousin by Dorothy Wayne (4/26/14)

36. For Old Crime's Sake by Delano Ames (4/29/14)

37. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (4/29/14)

38. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin (5/6/14)

39. Death at the Medical Board by Josephine Bell (5/16/14)

40. Whispers of Vivaldi by Beverle Graves Myers (5/21/14)