2025 Clock Reading Challenge

 

Jo at Jo Linsdell is once again sponsoring a very straightforward reading challenge: 12 books in 12 months. Each book should have numbers from one to twelve in the title so we can fill in our clock face. For more info and to join in, please see her link. I've listed my tentative choices.

One: And One for the Dead by Pierre Audemars OR One Fell Sloop by Susan Kenney

Two: A Thief or Two by Sara Woods OR Two Against Scotland Yard by David Frome

Three: Look Three Ways at Murder by John Creasey OR Three Motives for Murder by Roy Winsor

Four: Murder in Four Degrees by J. S. Fletcher OR The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice

Five: Five Victorian Ghost Novels by E. F. Bleiler (ed) OR Bodies from the Library 5 by Tony Medawar (ed)

Six: Six Nuns & a Shotgun by Colin Watson OR Bodies from the Library 6 by Tony Medawar (ed)

Seven: Seven Chose Murder by Roy Vickers OR The Seven Deadly Sisters by Pat McGerr

Eight: The Eight Circle by Stanley Ellin OR The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

Nine: Nine Strings to Your Bow by Lee Thayer OR The Nine Waxed Faces by Francis Beeding

Ten: Bloody Ten by William F. Love OR Ten Plus One by Ed McBain

Eleven: The Best of Trek #11 by Walter Irwin & G. B. Love OR In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem & Fun in the Sandbox by Carol Burnett

Twelve: Twelve Drummers Drumming by C. C. Benison OR Twelve Women Detectives by Laura Marcus (ed)