Monday, November 11, 2024

Murder Every Monday: Purple Prose? Nah, Just the Cover

 Kate at Cross Examining Crime hosts a fun mystery cover game on Instagram called Murder Every Monday. Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to display book covers and titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link). 

 
Today's theme is covers that are predominantly purple.

Murder in the Grave ~Irina Shapiro
Death in Kashmir ~M. M. Kaye
Wycliffe & the Scapegoat ~W. J. Burley

Bones in the Barrow ~Josephine Bell
Detection by Gaslight ~Douglas G. Greene, ed.
Put on by Cunning ~Ruth Rendell

The Passenger from Scotland Yard ~H. F. Wood
Depart This Life ~E. X. Ferrars
Pieces of Justice ~Margaret Yorke

Unnatural Death ~Dorothy L. Sayers
Unreasonable Doubt ~Elizabeth (aka E. X.) Ferrars
To Spite Her Face ~Hildegarde Dolson

Portrait of a Dead Heiress ~Thomas B. Dewey
A Stranger in Mayfair ~Charles Finch
The Golden Ball & Other Stories ~Agatha Christie

The Ampersand Papers ~Michael Innes
Practise to Deceive ~Richard & Frances Lockridge
Who's Next? ~George Baxt


Monday, November 4, 2024

Murder Every Monday: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

 


Kate at Cross Examining Crime hosts a fun mystery cover game on Instagram called Murder Every Monday. Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to display book covers and titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link). 
 
Today's theme is covers or titles with a journalism theme. Most of the ones I own just have newspapers or clippings on the cover....


Murder in the News Room ~Henry Charlton Beck
Headlined for Murder ~Edwin Lanham
The Fleet Street Murders ~Charles Finch


Write Me a Murder ~Amanda Carter
The Malignant Heart ~Celestine Sibley
Bad for Business ~Rex Stout

The Strange Case of Lucile Clery ~Joseph Shearing
There Is a Tide ~Agatha Christie
The Scoop ~The Detection Club

Murder for Two ~George Harmon Coxe
A Three-Pipe Problem ~Julian Symons
An Ad for Murder ~John Penn

Friday, November 1, 2024