Monday, March 3, 2025

Murder Every Monday: It Can't Be Over

 


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 the covers of the final novel in a series. Here is a small selection. I could have included so many more.

Busman's Honeymoon ~Dorothy L Sayers
The Lake Frome Monster ~Arthur W. Upfield
Curtain ~Agatha Christie [final Hercule Poirot]

(Please note that I do not count the continuation stories of Wimsey by Jill Paton Walsh and of Poirot by Sophie Hannah.)

Murder by the Book ~Frances & Richard Lockridge [final Mr. & Mrs. North]
The Tenth Life ~Richard Lockridge [final Inspector Heimrich]
The Old Die Young ~Richard Lockridge [final Lt. Shapiro]

The Edge of Doom ~Amanda Cross
Beverly Gray's Surprise ~Clair Blank
His Last Bow ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Again, I am ignoring the many Holmes pastiches, etc.]

The Girl in the Cellar ~Patricia Wentworth
The Morning After Death ~Nicholas Blake
The Glimpses of the Moon ~Edmund Crispin

Cold Blood ~Leo Bruce
Dishonour Among Thieves ~E. C, R,. Lorac
Behold a Fair Woman ~Francis Duncan

The Bells of Old Bailey ~Dorothy Bowers
India Black & the Gentleman Thief ~Carol K. Carr
The Four False Weapons ~John Dickson Carr [final Henri Bencolin]


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