Mystery Reporter's Challenge 2020

MYSTERY REPORTER'S CHALLENGE 2020

Sponsored by Ellie at Dead Herring 

Thru Goodreads Group: The Challenge Factory

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The challenge runs from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.

Who? What? Where? When? How?
Why? – because it’s fun to read!

Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category) [Finished 1/31/20]
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category) [Finished 2/20/20]
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category) [Finished 5/18/20]
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category) [Finished 7/20/20]
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category) [Finished 8/22/20]

BONUS CATEGORY: Pulitzer Prize Winner
(Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books [Finished 9/12/20]

I'm back for another round! I'm going to go for News Anchor as my official goal this year and hope to do them all again.


WHO
Protagonist is in the medical profession: Deep Lay the Dead by Frederick C. Davis (2/14/20)
Protagonist works with animals: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (6/20/20)
Protagonist is writing a book: The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards (8/4/20)
Protagonist is happily married: The Valentine's Day Murder by Lee Harris (4/10/20)
Protagonist is a male: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (1/15/20)

WHAT
Title is 1 word: Kept by D. J. Taylor (5/2/20)
Title is at least 6 words: The Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill (1/31/20)
Title starts with a vowel (Not the word ‘A’): Information Received by E. R. Punshon (2/6/20)
An event in the title: The Christening Day Murder by Lee Harris (4/7/20)
Any measurement in the title (example=inch, minute, mile, cup, quarter, etc): 4 Feet in the Grave by Amelia Reynolds Long (5/30/20)

WHERE
Set in a beach town: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King [Maine Island Beach town] (6/17/20)
Set in a big city: Murder on the Waterfront by Michael Jahn (1/20/20)
Set on an island: Curtain for a Jester by Frances & Richard Lockridge [Manhattan Island] (4/3/20)
Set in a state beginning with the letter ‘M’: The Crying Sisters by Mabel Seeley [Minnesota]
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England): Death in Kenya by M. M. Kaye (2/20/20)

WHEN
Set in the 1900s: Spin Your Web, Lady! by Frances & Richard Lockridge (2/8/20)
Set in the 1800s: Between the Thames & the Tiber by Ted Riccardi (7/20/20)
Set in the future (2021 or beyond): Neuromancer by William Gibson (8/22/20)
Set during a storm: Deadly Pattern by Douglas Clark [story begins during a huge storm] (5/18/20)
Set during summer: The Haunted Pool by Phyllis A. Whitney (1/3/20)

HOW
(Method of Murder)
Poison: Good Luck to Corpse by Max Murray (3/30/20)
Drowning: The Big Four by Agatha Christie (2/27/20)
Gun/shooting: The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson (1/26/20)
Blunt object: Red Threads by Rex Stout (2/14/20)
Accident: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers (1/28/20)

BONUS CATEGORY
WHO – Not your typical protagonist (deaf, blind, wheelchair-bound, ADHD, Aspergers, etc.): Out of Control by Baynard Kendrick [blind detective] (9/12/20)
WHAT – The protagonist’s first name starts with your first or last initial: Blotto, Twinks & the Ex-King's Daughter by Simon Brett (7/1/20)
WHERE – Set in a hotel: Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers (1/13/20)
WHEN – Whole book takes place within a week: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1/9/20)
HOW – Mistaken identity – wrong person killed: The New Year's Eve Murder by Lee Harris (4/25/20)

Challenge Complete 9/12/20