Mystery Reporter 2024

 

Mystery Reporter's Challenge 2024 is sponsored by Ellie in The Challenge Factory on Goodreads.

My post in the challenge: HERE

Who? What? When? Where? Why?\

How--In a cozy chair with a hot cup of cocoa and a box of bonbons!

I'll be going for the Columnist level (2 books from each basic category) and hoping to complete them all.

Cub Reporter: 5 books (one from each category) [Complete 1/28/24]

Columnist: 10 books (two from each) [Complete 2/20/24]

News Anchor: 15 books (three from each) [Complete 2/29/24]

Editor: 20 books (four from each) [Complete 3/16/24]

Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (all five from each) [Complete 9/7/24]

Bonus Category:

Pulitzer Prize Winner = Newspaper Mogul plus bonus categories (30 books)

Extra Bonus Category

Nobel Prize for Literature = Pulitzer plus final bonus category (31 books) 

WHO

Protagonist is established in their business/career: A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell [Inspector Wexford has been a detective for a long time] (1/28/24)

Any Character is a dead person (ghost, vampire, zombie, etc.): Seance for a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen {vampires} (4/9/24)

Main character works with animals: Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield [Inspector Bonaparte has to work with camels and a dog to follow the trail] (2/22/24)

Protagonist involved in a love (dating) triangle: Murder After Hours (aka The Hollow) by Agatha Christie (2/26/24)

Character who bakes: A Fete Worse Than Death by Dolores Gordon-Smith [there's a bit of a feud over who is the best baker at the fete] (2/20/24)

WHAT

Number in the title: Bodies from the Library 3 by Tony Medawar, ed (1/7/24)

Color in the title: The Blue Geranium by Dolan Birkley (3/3/24)

Title is at least five words: Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders & Impossible Crimes by Martin Edwards, ed (2/9/24)

An anthology: Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles by Martin Edwards, ed (1/20/24)

Title is a play on words: Reading Up a Storm by Eva Gates (9/7/24)

WHERE:

Set in a state the touches water: The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout [New York] (3/5/24)

Set on an island: Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines [Tulagi Island in the South Pacific] (2/12/24)

Set in a state that starts with an "M": Death, My Darling Daughters by Jonathan Stagge [Massachusetts] (1/1/24)

Set on a farm: Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (3/24/24)

Set on foreign soil (NOT USA/England): The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson [France] (2/28/24)

WHEN

1800s or earlier: The Passenger from Scotland Yard [1888] by H. F. Wood (1/11/24)

1900s: The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook [1960s] (2/29/24)

During spring: The Final Days of Abbot Montrose by Sven Elvestad (2/3/24)

During summer: Mad About the Boy? by Dolores Gordon-Smith (3/13/24)

During a holiday: The Dragon Boat Festival by John Bechtel (6/19/24) [Dragon Boat Festival]

WHY

Money/Greed: Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (3/16/24)

Jealousy: Pieces of Justice by Margaret Yorke (9/2/24)

Revenge: The Cambridge Murders by Glyn Daniel (1/24/24)

To stop blackmail: Death Has a Small Voice by Frances & Richard Lockridge (131/24)

To keep a secret/cover up: The Emperor's Snuff Box by John Dickson Carr (1/3/24)

BONUS--PULITZER PRIZE

WHO--Book where you figure it out before the protagonist does: Murder & Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood (1/27/24)

WHAT--Title/Series Title starts with 1st letter of your last name: Heberden's Seat by Douglas Clark (11/3/24)

WHERE--Set in fictional place where you'd love to live: The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald [primarily in England] (5/4/24)

WHEN--During a storm: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (3/26/24)

WHY--To kill a witness: Murder in C Major by Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1/15/24)

EXTRA BONUS--NOBEL PRIZE

Horoscope: Pick a horoscope from the 1st of any month and read a book related to the horoscope. Chose July 1st, 2024 horoscope (my birthday!). Part of the horoscope in the Chicago Sun Times said that for Cancer: Don't hesitate to interact with friends and groups because you will shine! Read The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves--story revolves around a group of friends who hold a reunion every five years. [9/17/24]