Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge 2026

 

The Cloak & Dagger Challenge is back at Carol's Notebook. Those who have participated before will recognize the rules and format--check out the link for full details and to sign up. Since my primary reading genre is mysteries, I will be joining in again at the Sherlock Holmes level of 56+ books in the mystery and crime fields.

1. Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy (1/7/26)

2. Death on the Slopes by Norma Schier (1/9/26)

3. The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (1/12/26)

4. Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers (1/18/26)

5. Old Bones by Herman Petersen (1/20/26)

6. High Marks for Murder by Rebecca Kent (1/22/26)

7. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie (1/25/26)

8. Masterpieces of Mystery: Amateurs & Professionals by Ellery Queen (1/31/26)

9. Aristotle Detective by Margaret Doody (2/3/26)

10. Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys (2/4/26)

11. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Great War by Simon Guerrier (2/7/26)

12. A Death for a Double by E. X. Giroux (2/7/26)

13. The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush (2/13/26)

14. Twisted Daughters, Troubled Wives by Sarah Weinman, ed (2/18/26)

15. Escape While I Can by Melba Marlett (2/19/26)

16. The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice (2/25/26)

17. The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley (2/28/26)

18. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (3/2/26)

19. A Lady's Guide to Mischief & Mayhem by Manda Collins (3/7/26)

20. That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green (3/11/26)

21. The Gaunt Stranger by Edgar Wallace (3/16/26)

22. Portrait of a Nightingale by Manda Collins (3/17/26)

23. Murder Enters the Picture by Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz (3/20/26)

24. Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne (3/21/26)

25. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (3/22/26)

26. Shadow of Madness by Hugh Pentecost (3/23/26)

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

28. The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead (4/1/26)

29. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie (4/3/26)

30. Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh (4/4/26)

31. Murder on the Thirty-First Floor by Per Wahlöö (4/6/26)

32. Harriet Farewell by Margaret Erskine (4/8/26)

33. Hercule Poirot & the Greenshore Folly by Agatha Christie (4/9/26)

34. Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie (4/11/26)

35. Treasure of Hemlock Mountain by Virginia Frances Voight (4/11/26)

36. The Methods of Sergeant Cluff by Gil North (4/13/26)

37. The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs (4/16/26)

37. The Case of Mice & Murder by Sally SMith (4/18/26)

38. Murder on Eaton Square by Lee Strauss (4/20/26)

39. Murder by Plum Pudding by Lee Strauss (4/22/26)

40. Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka [compiler & editor] (4/25/26)

41. When the Wolves Are Silent by C. S. Harris (4/26/26)

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