2026 Six Shooter Challenge: My Sign-Up

 

I'm heading out to the shooting range again with Rick and his Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge in 2026. The goal is pretty straight-forward--read six books on the same target (by the same author) to complete your round. Any targets started in 2025 but not yet complete will carry over to the new year, so Rick's page won't be fully ready to go for a while. But you can check out the current details at the link above.

As with his other challenges, Rick doesn't ask for a commitment. But I will set a personal goal in order to claim the challenge complete for 2026. I've been setting it at four targets--and I will be aiming for the same in the new year.  Likely targets will include Agatha Christie, the Lockridges, and Carolyn Keene. Other authors TBD.

Agatha Christie

1. A Pocket Full of Rye (1/25/26)

2. "The Affair of the Bungalow" (1/31/26)

3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (3/24/26)

4. Destination Unknown (4/3/26)

5. Hercule Poirot & the Greenshore Folly (4/9/26)

6. Dead Man's Mirror (4/11/26)

Manda Collins

1. A Lady's Guide to Mischief & Mayhem (3/7/26)

2. Portrait of a Nightingale (3/17/26)

3. An Heiress's Guide to Deception & Desire (3/25/26)

4. A Spinster's Guide to Danger & Dukes (7/24/26)

5. A Governess's Guide to Passion & Peril (7/27/26)

6. A Wallflower's Guide to Viscounts & Vice (8/6/26)

Lee Strauss

1.Murder on Eaton Square (4/20/26)

2. Murder by Plum Pudding (4/22/26)

3. Murder on Fleet Street (6/23/26)

4. Murder at Brighton Beach (7/9/26)

5. Murder in Hyde Park (7/13/26)

6. Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (7/21/26)

Hugh Pentecost

1. "Chambrun & the Electronic Ear" by Hugh Pentecost (1/31/26)

2. Shadow of Madness (3/23/26)

3. The Evil That Men Do (5/19/26)

4. Murder in Luxury (9/15/26)

5. Random Killer (9/25/26)

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Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew)

1. Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion (9/23/26)

2. The Clue of the Broken Locket (9/25/26)

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