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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


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