Sunday, November 4, 2018

Challenge Complete: Mount TBR






Well, I finally made it. I huffed and puffed my way to the top of Mount Everest. It's not as easy as it used to be. But my flag is planted! And...I'm not wasting a moment. I've tossed my gear into the spaceship that was waiting for me on the peak and I'm off to Mars. I know I won't make the top of Olympus, but let's see how far I can get....


1. The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham [on TBR since at least 2011] (1/1/18)
2. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 1/5/13] (1/7/18)
3. Bartholomew the Beaver by Ruth Dixon [on TBR since 3/24/17] (1/13/18)
4. World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 by Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr (eds) [on TBR since 10/4/14] (1/9/18)
5. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay [on TBR since 3/5/15] (1/11/18)
6. Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration by Robb Pearlman [on TBR since 11/23/17] (1/12/18)
7. Partners in Wonder by Harlan Ellison (and others) [on TBR since 9/12/15] (1/19/18]
8. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards [on TBR since 12/28/17] (1/23/18)
9. Red Warning by Virgil Markham [on TBR since 7/27/17] (1/25/18)
10. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher [on TBR since 7/21/16] (1/28/18)
11. Act One, Scene One--Murder by A. H. Richardson [on TBR since 7/21/17] (1/30/18)
12. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ripper Legacy by David Stuart Davies [on TBR since 10/19/17]  (1/31/18)
Pike's Peak!! 
13. Lament for a Lady Laird by Margot Arnold [on TBR since 11/7/13] (2/3/18)
14. The Pink Camellia by Temple Bailey [on TBR since 1/3/15] (2/5/18)
15. The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess [on TBR since 3/24/17] (2/8/18)
16. Avalanche by Kay Boyle [on TBR since 5/31/13] (2/8/18)
17. Another Woman's House by Mignon G. Eberhart [on TBR since 10/17/15] (2/10/18)
18. Star Wreck 6: Geek Space Nine by Leah Rewolinski [on TBR since 7/2/18] (2/11/18]
19. Beverly Gray's Secret by Clair Blank [on TBR since 3/24/17] (2/13/18)
20. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey [on TBR since some time pre-2011] (2/14/18)
21. The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird [on TBR since 10/5/17] (2/16/18)
22. With Blood & Kisses by Richard Shattuck [on TBR since 12/25/14] (2/23/18)
23. Odor of Violets by Baynard Kendrick [on TBR since 10/9/15] (2/27/18)
24. Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas [on TBR since1/2/16 ] (3/4/18)
Mount Blanc!!
25. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain [on TBR since 5/25/17] (3/10/18)
26. Green for a Grave by Manning Lee Stokes [on TBR since 5/31/16] (3/13/18)
27. Payoff for the Banker by Frances & Richard Lockridge [on TBR since 12/25/16] (3/15/18)
28. About the Murder of Geraldine Foster by Anthony Abbott [on TBR since 1/10/13] (3/22/18)
29. The Sign of the Book by John Dunning [on TBR since 1/19/17] (2/2318) 
30. Scotland Yard Photo Crimes from the Files of Inspector Black, Vol. 1 by Henry Black [on TBR since 12/31/16] (3/24/18)
31. Murder Out of Turn by Frances & Richard Lockridge [on TBR since 12/25/16] (3/27/18)
32. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner [on TBR since 7/21/16] (3/30/18)
33. The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne [on TBR since 3/13/13] (4/3/18)
34. The Zero Trap by Paula Gosling [on TBR since 12/31/16] (4/8/18)
35. Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster by Marlis Day [on TBR since ] (4/10/18)
36. A Vow of Penance by Veronica Black [on TBR since 7/20/13] (4/11/18)
Mt. Vancouver!!
37. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated Classics version) [on TBR since 8/17/17] (4/11/18)
38. Mrs. Malory & the Lilies That Fester by Hazel Holt [on TBR since at least 2011] (4/13/18)
39. The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen [on TBR since 7/8/16] (4/24/18)
40. Terror in the Town by Edward Ronns [on TBR since 12/25/14] (4/26/18)
41. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet by Daniel D. Victor [on TBR since 6/21/14] (4/27/18)
42. Then There Were Three by Geoffrey Homes [on TBR since 12/25/16] (4/30/18)
43. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (Illustrated Classics version) [on TBR since 8/17/17] (5/1/18)
44. Death at the Dog by Joanna Cannan [on TBR since ] (5/4/18)
45. Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 8/6/11] (5/7/18)
46. Untidy Murder by Frances & Richard Lockridge [on TBR since 10/7/16] (5/9/18)
47. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Illustrated Classics version) [on TBR since 8/17/17] (5/10/18)
48. Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich [on TBR since 12/16/15] (5/16/18)
Mt. Ararat!!
49. The Body in the Basket by George Bagby [on TBR since 12/25/15] (5/22/18)
50. The Love Songs of Sappho trans by Paul Roche [on TBR since 12/16/10] (5/23/18)
51. By the Light of the Study Lamp by Carolyn Keene [on TBR since 7/1/16] (5/25/18)
52. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie [on TBR since 11/12/16] (5/28/18)
53. Dekok & Murder by Installment by A. C. Baantjer [on TBR since 1/2/16] (5/30/18)
54. The Hellfire Conspiracy by Will Thomas [on TBR since 12/22/12] (6/1/18)
55. Terror in Times Square by Alan Handley [on TBR since 12/20/14] (6/5/18)
56. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Illustrated Classics version) [on TBR since 8/17/17] (6/9/18)
57. The Witch of Lime Street by David Jaher [on TBR since 6/9/16] (6/12/18)
58. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 11/21/16] (6/17/18)
59. Some Beasts No More by Kenneth Giles [on TBR since 3/28/15] (6/22/18)
60. Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini [on TBR since 7/11/09] (6/27/18)
Mt. Kilimanjaro!!
61. She by H. Rider Haggard [on TBR since 10/3/14] (7/17/18)
62. The Trouble in Hunter Ward by Josephine Bell [on TBR since 3/10/12] (7/18/18)
63. Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth [on TBR since 8/17/13] (7/19/18)
64. Time of Terror by Hugh Pentecost [on TBR since 12/31/11] (7/20/18)
65. Women Sleuths by Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini (eds) [on TBR since 11/29/08] (7/21/18)
66. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin [on TBR since at least 3/5/11 ] (7/22/18)
67. The Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell [on TBR since 3/17/11] (7/22/18
68. Murder at Midnight by C. S. Challinor [on TBR since 6/11/15] (7/23/18)
69. The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (ed by ) [on TBR since 8/20/15] (7/25/18)
70. The Lacquer Screen by Robert Van Gulik [on TBR since 3/8/14] (7/28/18)
71. A Summer in the Twenties by Peter Dickinson [on TBR since 5/26/12] (8/2/18)
72. The Haunted Showboat by Caroline Keene [on TBR since 7/29/18] (8/2/18)
73. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith [on TBR since ] (8/5/18)
74. The Big Four by Agatha Christie [on TBR since 10/6/16] (8/12/18)
75. A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside [on TBR since 1/11/14] (8/16/18)
El Toro!!
76. Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 8/12/11] (8/19/18)
77. The Tale of Brownie Beaver by Arthur Scott Bailey [on TBR since 6/2/17] (8/19/18)
78. Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery & Detection by various (ed. by Reader's Digest) [on TBR since 8/7/11] (8/22/18)
79. The Blind Spot by John Creasey [on TBR since 10/7/16] (8/23/18)
80. Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus [on TBR since 10/6/16] (8/24/18)
81. Basil & the Pygmy Cats by Eve Titus [on TBR since 10/6/16] (8/24/18)
82. Basil in Mexico by Eve Titus [on TBR since 10/6/16] (8/25/18)
83. Angels in the Gloom by Anne Perry [on TBR since 2/1/13] (8/28/18)
84. The Terrorists by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö [on TBR since 3/29/11] (8/30/18)
85. The Invisible Thief by Thomas Brace Haughey [on TBR since 1983] (9/5/18)
86. The Grub-&-Stakers Pinch a Poke by Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) [on TBR since at least late 1980s] (9/10/18)
87. The Charles Dickens Murders by Edith Skom [on TBR since 1/19/15] (9/15/18)
88. The Boy in the Pool by Camilla R. Bittle [on TBR since 7/27/17] (9/16/18)
89. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen [on TBR since at least 2011] (9/18/18)
90. Foggy, Foggy Death by Frances & Richard Lockridge [on TBR since 8/6/11](9/22/18)
91. Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 7/8/16] (9/29/18)
92. The House of Sudden Sleep by John Hawk [on TBR since 12/25/17] (9/30/18)
93. Death of a Peer by Ngaio Marsh [on TBR since 12/30/17] (10/3/18)
94. Before Midnight by Rex Stout [on TBR since 2/28/15] (10/4/18)
95. 'Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick [on TBR since 6/24/17] (10/4/18)
96. Queen's Quorum by Ellery Queen [on TBR since 5/4/15] (10/13/18)
97. What Beckoning Ghost by Douglas G. Browne [on TBR since 10/9/15] (10/16/18)
98. The Glass Mask by Lenore Glen Offord [on TBR since 5/31/16] (10/21/18)
99. The Killing Strike by John Creasey [on TBR since 10/7/16] (10/28/18)
100. Five Alarm Funeral by Stewart Sterling [on TBR since ] (11/3/18)
Mount Everest!! Challenge Complete!