Once again Rick at the Rick Mills Project will be offering up the Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge as well as the Six Shooter Challenge and the Mystery Marathon. I, having no self-control when it comes to challenges--especially mystery-related challenges, will--of course--sign up for all three. For full details, check out the link above after the new year starts. Basically, just read mysteries and log the number of named corpses on his handy form.
Rick doesn't require a sign-up post, but in order to claim this one as complete on my own personal challenge tally sheet, I must submit at least 20 death certificate reports. With the number of mysteries I read per year, this doesn't prove too difficult--so, there should be plenty of toe tags signed by "Quincy" Hankins at the Mystillery Morgue.
Rick doesn't require a sign-up post, but in order to claim this one as complete on my own personal challenge tally sheet, I must submit at least 20 death certificate reports. With the number of mysteries I read per year, this doesn't prove too difficult--so, there should be plenty of toe tags signed by "Quincy" Hankins at the Mystillery Morgue.
1. Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy [7 deaths] (1/7/26)
2. Death on the Slopes by Norma Schier [4 deaths] (1/9/26)
3. The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson [2 deaths] (1/12/26)
4. Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers [11 deaths] (1/18/26)
5. Old Bones by Herman Petersen [5 deaths] (1/20/26)
6. High Marks for Murder by Rebecca Kent [one death] (1/22/26)
7. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie [5 deaths] (1/25/26)
*****************The following are from Masterpieces of Mystery: Amateurs & Professionals by Ellery Queen, ed (1/31/26)
8. "Chambrun & the Electronic Ear" by Hugh Pentecost [one death]
9. "The Poisoned Dow '08" by Dorothy L. Sayers [one death]
10. "The Stripper" by H. H. Holmes (one death)
11. "Wally the Watchful Eye" by Paul W. Fairman [one death]
12. "They Can Only Hang You Once" by Dashiell Hammett [2 deaths]
13. "Wild Goose Chase" by Ross Macdonald [3 deaths]
14. "File #1: The Mayfield Case" by Joe Goes [one death]
15. "About the Perfect Crime of Mr. Digberry" by Anthony Abbot [one death]
16. "The Devil Is a Gentleman" by Charles B. Child [one death]
17. "A Winter's Tale" by Frances & Richard Lockridge [one death]
18. "The Motive" by Ellery Queen [3 deaths]
19. "Cause for Suspicion" by George Harmon Coxe [one death]
20. "The Botany Pattern" by Victor Canning [3 deaths]
Commitment met
21. "H as in Homicide" by Lawrence Treat [one death]
22. "Nightshade" by Ed McBain [6 deaths]
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23. Aristotle Detective by Margaret Doody [one death] (2/3/26)
24. Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys [4 deaths] (2/4/26)
25. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Great War by Simon Guerrier [8 deaths] (2/7/26)
26. Death for a Double by E. X. Giroux [5 deaths] (2/7/26)
27. The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush [5 deaths] (2/13/26)
********************The following are from Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives by Sarah Weinman, ed (2/18/26)
28. "The Heroine" by Patricia Highsmith [one death]
29. "A Nice Place to Stay" by Nedra Tyre [5 deaths]
30. "Lavender Lady" by Barbara Callahan [one death]
31. "Sugar & Spice" by Vera Caspary [2 deaths]
32. "The Purple Shroud" by Joyce Harrington [one death]
33. "The Stranger in the Car" by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding [2 deaths]
34. "The Splintered Monday" by Charlotte Armstrong [one death]
35. "Lost Generation" by Dorothy Salisbury Davis [one death]
36. "Mortmain" by Miriam Allen Deford [one death]
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37. Escape While I Can by Melba Marlett [13 deaths] (2/19/26)
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Thanks again for the promo, Bev! We welcome new examiners to the morgue at any time, there are plenty of bodies to be processed. Those with a morbid sense of curiousity can peek in the 2025 morgue at http://rickmillsproject.com/reading_challenges/medical_examiner/2025/index.html . New examiners are always welcome and can receive their very own real Toe Tags to use as bookmarks, or to tie on unsuspecting people at the beach.
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