In 2017, I joined in on Jay's Deal Me In Challenge for the first time and after a year off I've decided to do another round. If you'd like to join in please click the link for a full run-down. Here's the short version of the rules:
~Compile a list of 52 short stories
~Match each story to a card from a regular deck of cards
~Have a deck of cards handy throughout the year
~Read one short story per week
~Choose your weekly story by drawing a new card from the deck. I plan to draw my card on Sunday.
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A: "Hunting Day" by Hugh Pentecost
2: "Investigation by Telegram" by Agatha Christie
3: "The Silent Informer" by Helen McCloy
4: "The Man Who Lost His Taste" by Lawrence G. Blochman
5: "Dead Boys Don't Remember" by Frances & Richard Lockridge
6: "Lioness vs. Panther" by Q. Patrick
7: "Tea Shop Assassin" by Michael Gilbert
8: "Chicago Nights' Entertainments" by Ben Hecht (1/19/20)
9: "An Official Position" by W. Somerset Maugham (1/10/20)
10: "Wanted: An Accomplice" by Frederick Nebel
J: "For Tom's Sake" by Sheila Kaye-Smith
Q: "Carnival Day" by Nedra Tyre
K: "How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank" by John Steinbeck (from Ellery Queen's Anthology 1966 Mid-Year Edition (Vol. 11) [2/18/24]
Bonus Read (to complete the 1958 magazine):
Nothing Is Impossible by Clayton Rawson (novelette)
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Spades
(All but King from Ellery Queen's Anthology 1966 Mid-Year Edition (Vol. 11)
A: "You Can't Love Two Women" by L. A. G. Strong (2/18/24)
2: "I Killed John Harrington" by Thomas Walsh (2/18/24)
3: "The Grave Grass Quivers" by MacKinlay Kantor (2/18/24)
4. "The Crime by the River" by Edmund Crispin (2/18/24)
5: "£5000 for a Confession" by L. J. Beeston (2/18/24)
6: "Karmesin & the Crown Jewels" by Gerald Kersh (2/18/24)
7: "Black Mail" by Stephen McKenna (2/18/24)
8: "Murder on St. Valentine's Day" by Mignon G. Eberhart (2/11/20)
9: "A Piece of String" by Clarence Budington Kelland (2/18/24)
10: "The Tragedy of Papa Ponsard" by Vincent Starrett (2/4/20)
J: "The Silver Curtain" by John Dickson Carr (2/4/20)
Q: "Bride in Danger" by Ellery Queen (2/26/20)
K: "Angel Fix" by James Tiptree, Jr. (from Out of the Everywhere & Other Extraordinary Visions by Tiptree)
Bonus stories (to complete the anthology):
All at Once, No Alice by Cornell Woolrich (short novel) [2/18/24]
The Girl Who Lived Dangerously by Hugh Pentecost (short novel) [2/18/24]
The Clue of the Scattered Rubies by Earl Stanley Gardner (novelette) [2/18/24]
Blind Man's Bluff by Roy Vickers (novelette) [2/18/24]
That Was Will's Day by Aaron Marc Stein (novelette) [2/18/24]
Taboo by Geoffrey Household (novelette) [2/18/24]
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Hearts (from Out of the Everywhere by Tiptree and 6 X H by Robert A. Heinlein)
A: "Beaver Tears" by Tiptree
2: "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light" by Tiptree
3: "The Screwfly Solution" by Tiptree
4: "Time-Sharing Angel" by Tiptree
5: "We Who Stole the Dream" by Tiptree
6: "Slow Music" by Tiptree
7: "A Source of Innocent Merriment" by Tiptree
8: "Out of the Everywhere" by Tiptree
9: "With Delicate Mad Hands" by Tiptree
10: "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants" by Robert A Heinlein (2/11/20)
J: "All You Zombies" by Heinlein (6/19/23)
Q: "They" by Heinlein (6/19/23)
K: "Our Fair City" by Heinlein (6/19/23)
Bonus reads (to finish the book): "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" (novella) and "And He Built a Crooked House" by Heinlein (6/19/23)
Diamonds (from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine October 1965)*
A: "Flair for Murder" by Frances & Richard Lockridge
2: "The Three R's" by Ellery Queen
3: "The Japanese Card Mystery" by James Holding
4: "Baskets of Apples & Roses" by Victor Canning
5: "The Cherub Vase" by Alice Scanlan Reach
6: "The Labor Day Mystery" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
7: "Jericho & the Dying Clue" by Hugh Pentecost (1/26/20)
8: "Want to Buy a Cat?" by Gerald Kersh
9: "The Course of Justice" by Hugh B. Cave
10: "The Great Glockenspiel Gimmick" by Arthur Moore
J: "The Theft of the Black Jupiter" by Margaret Austin
Q: "Devil to Pay" by J. F. Pierce
K: "The Sound of the Peepers" by Caroline Breedlove
*Remainder, including bonus stories, complete 5/26/23
Bonus stories (to finish the magazine):
"The Right Way & the Wrong" by Sonora Morrow
Not Easy to Kill by Philip Wylie (complete short novel)
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