Cloak & Dagger 2025

 

The Cloak & Dagger Challenge is back at Carol's Notebook. Those who have participated before will recognize the rules and format--check out the link for full details and to sign up. Since my primary reading genre is mysteries, I will be joining in again at the Sherlock Holmes level of 56+ books in the mystery and crime fields.

1. The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (1/5/25)

2. The Price of Silence by Kate Wilhelm (1/10/25)

3. Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by Leslie Thomas (1/11/25)

4. The Deadly Truth by Helen McCloy (1/15/25)

5. The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton (1/20/25)

6. The Cloisters by Katy Hays (1/24/25)

7. Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain (1/31/25)

8. The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart (2/4/25)

9. The Girl from the Mimosa Club by Leslie Ford (2/6/24)

10. Capital Crimes by Martin Edwards, ed (2/10/25)

11. The Last Resort by Michael Kaufman (2/13/25)

12. Murder in Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood (2/15/25)

13. Thief Is an Ugly Word by Paul Gallico (2/17/25)

14. "Inquest" by Henrietta Clandon (2/21/25)

15. Deadly Is the Diamond by Mignon G. Eberhart (2/22/25)

16. Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel by Agatha Christie/Bob Al-Greene (2/22/25)

17. Death in Shallow Water by Miles Burton (2/24/25)

18. Behold a Fair Woman by Francis Duncan (2/26/25)

19. Bodies from the Library 5 by Tony Medawar, ed (3/2/25)

20. Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett (3/9/25)

21. Nothing Is the Number When You Die by Joan Fleming (3/12/25)

22. A Thief or Two by Sara Woods (3/13/25)

23. The Sleep Is Deep by Hugh Lawrence Nelson (3/14/25)

24. Ambush for Anatol by John Sherwood (3/17/25)

25. No Vacation from Murder by Elizabeth Lemarchand (3/18/25)

26. Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough (3/19/25)

27. The Incredible Umbrella by Marvin Kaye (3/21/25)

28. The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood (3/23/25)

29. Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood (3/24/25)

30. Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane (3/25/25)

31. Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood (3/27/28)

32. The Silver Peril by Maryse Rutledge (3/30/25)

33. The Bus Station Murders/No Pockets in Shrouds by Louisa Revell (4/6/25)

34. A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough (4/10/25)

35. The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle by Timothy Miller (4/11/25)

36. The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol Ten by Eugene Thwing (4/14/25)

37. The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards (4/17/25)

38. Blood & Circuses by Kerry Greenwood (4/18/25)

39. Who Will Remember by C. S. Harris (4/19/25)

40. The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood (4/21/25)

41. Dead Babes in the Wood by D. B. Olsen (4/29/25)

42. Pilgrim's Rest by Patricia Wentworth (4/30/25)

43. The Mystery of the Merry Magician by Ellery Queen, Jr. (5/3/25)

44. Eyes That Watch You by William Irish (5/3/25)

45. Six Nuns & a Shotgun by Colin Watson (5/9/25)

46. Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth (5/9/25)

47. The Voice of the Crab by Charlotte Jay (5/12/25)

48. Top Bloody Secret by Stanley Hyland (5/25/25)

49. Murder British Style by Martin H. Greenberg, ed (5/26/25)

50. The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr (6/4/25)

51. Murder Among Friends by Lange Lewis (6/7/25)

52. Landscape of Lies by Peter Watson (6/10/25)

53. The Talk Show Murders by Steve Allen (6/12/25)

54. Murder by the Book by Cynthia Manson, ed (6/18/25)

55. Murder & Other Acts of Literature by Michele Slung, ed (6/24/25)

56. Murder in the Crypt by Irina Shapiro (6/26/25)

57. Murder at the Abbey by Irina Shapiro (6/27/25)

Commitment Complete!

58. The Case of the Hijacked Moon by Thomas Brace Haughey (6/28/25)

59. Murder at the Mill by Irina Shapiro (6/29/25)

60. One Fell Sloop by Susan Kenney (7/3/25)

61. Twelve Drummers Drumming by C. C. Benison (7/6/25)

62. Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie (7/11/25)

63. The Four of Hearts by Ellery Queen (7/15/25)

64. Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell (7/17/25)

65. A Dying Fall by June Thomson (7/20/25)

66. Murder, London-South Africa by John Creasey (7/23/25)

67. The Feathered Serpent by Edgar Wallace (7/26/25)

68. Death on the Dragon's Tongue by Margot Arnold (8/8/25)

69. The Disappearing Floor by Franklin W. Dixon (8/9/25)

70. Gently with the Innocents by Alan Hunter (8/11/25)

71. Murder in the Caravan by Irina Shapiro (8/14/25)

72. Murder in the Grave by Irina Shapiro (8/16/25)

73. Cats Don't Need Coffins by D. B. Olsen (8/23/25)

74. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (8/29/25)

75. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (8/30/25)

76. Murder at Ardith Hall by Irina Shapiro (9/2/25)

77. Death on Gokumon Island (9/9/25)

78. She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth (9/10/25)

79. A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper (9/11/25)

80. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (9/13/25)

81. Panic in Paradise by Alan Amos (9/16/25)

82. Crooked House by Agatha Christie (9/18/25)

83. The Nine Waxed Faces by Francis Beeding (9/22/25)

84. Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie (9/25/25)

85. Death of the Party by Leela Cutter (9/27/25)

86. Seven Great Detective Stories by William H. Larson, ed (10/5/25)

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