Monday, August 18, 2025

Murder Every Monday: The Lady (or Gentleman) in Red

 


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/or titles  from books we own that match the prompts she posts in advance (see link).

This week's prompt is covers with a person wearing something red. Some of these colors are coming through as more brown or orange than they actually appear in real life. And, in general, it seems ladies like red more gentleman. I tried very hard to balance the sexes, but the men were fewer and farther between.

Bones of the Buried ~David Roberts
Final Cut ~Eric Wright

Castle Rouge ~Carole Nelson Douglas 
Blood on Her Shoe ~Medora Field

Any Shape or Form ~Elizabeth Daly
Murder in the Caravan ~Irina Shapiro [recently read; review coming soon]

Below Suspicion ~John Dickson Carr
Death Is Academic ~Amanda Mackay
Strong Poison ~Dorothy L. Sayers

Murder Out of Turn ~Frances & Richard Lockridge
The Castle of the Swan ~Rupert Holland
The House Opposite ~J. Jefferson Farjeon

On the Spot ~Edgar Wallace
The Broken Vase ~Rex Stout
What a Body! ~Alan Green

Murder in Williamstown ~Kerry Greenwood
Suspense Stories ~Alfred Hitchcock (selected by)
Murder at Lowry House ~Leighann Dobbs

The Blue Geranium ~Dolan Birkley 
Tragedy of X ~Ellery Queen (writing as Barnaby Ross)
The Book of the Lion ~Elizabeth Daly

Coffin in Malta ~Gwendoline Butler 
Deadly Is the Diamond ~Mignon G. Eberhart
The Great Hotel Murder ~Vincent Starrett

Plunder of the Sun ~David Dodge
Your Turn, Mr. Moto ~John P. Marquand
Maniac Rendezvous ~Marc Brandel

The Hound of the Baskervilles ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3 Doors to Death ~Rex Stout
Murder for Christmas ~Thomas Godfrey (ed)


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