The 1952 Club

 

Twice a year Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings sponsor a group book club where those who would like to read books from the declared year. This October, the chosen year is 1952-which will take me into Golden Age mystery territory (Pre-1960). As I prepare for next week's reading, I thought I'd take a look at what 1952 books I've already read and list those that are on the TBR mountain range and could be used for the event.

Here are the books from 1952 that I've read and reviewed previously on the Block:
 The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett
Beverly Gray's Island Mystery by Clair Blank
Imagination Unlimited by E. F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty
London Particular (Fog of Doubt) by Christianna Brand
Crossed Skis by Carol Carnac
The Youth Hostel Murders by Glyn Carr
The Nine Wrong Answers by John Dickson Carr
The Underdog & Other Stories by Agatha Christie
Night Train to Paris by Manning Coles
The Crimson Clue by George Harmon Coxe
The Blind Spot by John Creasey
Bartholomew the Beaver by Ruth Dixon
Top of the Heap by A. A. Fair
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla by Erle Stanley Gardner
Murder Rides the Campaign Train by The Gordons (Mildred & Gordon Gordon)
The Sunburned Corpse by Adam Knight
Dead as a Dinosaur by Frances & Richard Lockridge
Trial by Terror (Death by Association) Lockridge
The Sleep Is Deep by Hugh Lawrence Nelson
The King Is Dead by Ellery Queen
Black Widow by Patrick Quentin
The Swimming Pool by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ambush for Anatol by John Sherwood

And once again, most of my reading is in mysteries. There are a few more mysteries and non-mysteries among the books I read pre-blogging (so no reviews). I may choose to revisit some of these:

The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
The Clock Strikes 13 by Herbert Brean
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
Murder with Mirrors (They Do It With Mirrors) by Agatha Christie
A Case for Mr. Crook by Anthony Gilbert
The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Mystery at the Ski Jump by Carolyn Keene
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Curious George Rides a Bike by H. A. & Margaret Rey
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh
Ladies Bane by Patricia Wentworth
Charlotte's Webb by E. B. White

Below are the books on the TBR pile that may be up for inspection: 
Murder, Maestro, Please by Delano Ames
The Corpse with Sticky Fingers by George Bagby
Stranger on a Cliff by Josephine Bell
Downbeat for a Dirge by Brandon Bird
Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar Box
Timeless Stories for Today & Tomorrow by Ray Bradbury
We All Killed Grandma by Fredric Brown
The Scarlet Slippers by James M. Brown
Cold Blood by Leo Bruce
Alias Uncle Hugo by Manning Coles
A Town of Masks by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The Gallows in My Garden by Richard Deming
Behind the Crimson Blind by Carter Dickson
Dead Men's Plans by Mignon G. Eberhart
Death Begs the Question by Lois Eby & John C. Fleming
Look Behind You, Lady! by Margaret Erskine
The Missing Link by Katharine Farrer
Wake the Sleeping Wolf by Rae Foley
The Bahamas Murder Case by Leslie Ford
The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Court of Last Resort by Erle Stanley Gardner
A Hole in the Ground by Andrew Garve
The Danger Within by Michael Gilbert
The Body on the Bench by Dorothy B. Hughes
One Man Show (Murder Is an Art) by Michael Innes
Eyes That Watch You by William Irish
Death & Little Brother by Clifford Knight
The Dog It Was That Died by E. C. R. Lorac
Himalayan Assignment by F. Van Wyck Mason
Grow Young & Die by William O'Farrell
Dead Babes in the Wood by D. B. Olsen
Murder Doll by Milton K. Ozaki
A Shot in the Dark by Richard Powell
Double Jeopardy by Fletcher Pratt
Calendar of Crime by Ellery Queen
The Double Man by Helen Reilly
The Mamo Murders by Juanita Sheridan
The Haploids by Jerry Sohl
The Long Green by Bart Spicer
They Had a Glory by Davenport Steward
The Corpse That Refused to Stay Dead by Hampton Stone
Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vuilliamy
Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse