Picture Prompt Book Bingo

Oh, look, Jamie (who keeps throwing newly-found reading challenges at us over at Sleep Less, Read More--Reading Challenges, Events, & More! on Facebook) found another challenge that I simply can't resist: Bookforager's Picture Prompt Book Bingo 2024. This is a pretty open challenge--just read books that connect in some way with the pictures on the bingo card. A shoe? Well, "shoe" could be in the title, a shoe could appear on the cover, or like the story of Cinderella, a shoe could be really important to the story. If you can make a connection between the picture and the book, then it counts. So...here goes. I'm in.

1. Shoe: A Fete Worse Than Death by Dolores Gordon-Smith [tiny shoes on cover] (2/20/24)

2. Microscope: Death, My Darling Daughters by Jonathan Stagge [the book is simply crawling with scientists] (1/1/24)

3. Partially Unrolled Scroll & Pen: Murder by the Book by Martin Edwards, ed [all about books, manuscripts, & writers] (1/20/24)

4. Snail: The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald [murderer took five years to work his way through everyone he wanted to kill] (5/4/24)

5. Old Roman Coin: The Cambridge Murders by Glyn Daniel [amateur sleuth is an archaeologist who might dig up old coins] (1/24/24)

6. Fern: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout [fern = plant; Nero Wolfe grows orchids] (6/25/24)

7. Crown: The Song of Roland translated by Dorothy L. Sayers [King/Emperor Charlemagne features prominently] (2/2/24)

8. Armillary Sphere: Murder in Brass  [aka The Brass Ring] by Lewis Padgett (5/29/24)

9. Seashell: Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines [set on a South Pacific Island--shells on the beach] (2/12/24)

10: Cannon: Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell [main character Colonel in the Crimean War] (2/7/24)

11. Harp: Murder in C Major by Sara Hoskinson Frommer [set in an orchestra] (1/15/24)

12. Hands making a dog shadow puppet: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney [the dog is a fairly important character] (3/26/24)

13. Old camera on tripod: Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang [old pictures provide some of the clues to solve the mystery] (4/14/24)

14. Dog: The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth [one of the critical characters at the end has a dog] (2/16/24)

15. Beehive (with bees): The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen [when Holmes retires he keeps bees] (4/9/24)

16. Fluffy cumulonimbus clouds: The May Week Murders by Douglas G. Browne [denouement takes place during thunderstorm] (8/7/24)