Murder Every Monday: The Case of the Missing Monday, Take Two

 

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).

My intention is to also post about them here on the blog. Periodically, I manage to miss Monday and post on some other day. Last week, I managed to miss posting at all. So...for your viewing pleasure I bring you both this week's prompt: Titles with theft, burglary, etc in them as well as last week's prompt: Titles with a type of terrain. 

Last Week: Meet Me at the ATM: All Terrain Murder

The Desert Moon Mystery ~Kay Cleaver Strahan

Plain Murder ~C. S. Forester (just realized the author has terrain in his name as well)

Plain Sailing ~Douglas Clark

Into the Valley of Death ~ Evelyn Hervey (H. R. F. Keating)

The Valley of Fear ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (review is graphic novel version)

Trixie Belden & the Happy Valley Mystery ~Kathryn Kenny

The Mountain Cat Murders ~Rex Stout

The Black Mountain ~Rex Stout

The Mountains Have a Secret ~Arthur W. Upfield (another author with terrain!)

Forests of the Night ~David Stuart Davies

The Tule Marsh Murder ~Nancy Barr Mavity

Murder on the Marsh ~John Ferguson

The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery ~J. S. Fletcher

The Cornish Coast Murder ~John Bude

Crime on the Coast ~The Detection Club

And this week's theme: Where Thieves Rush In

The Country-House Burglar ~Michael Gilbert

Cold Steal ~Alict Tilton

The Theft of the Magna Carta ~John Creasey

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar ~Maurice Leblanc

Raffles ~E. W. Hornung (named thief in title)

The Embezzler ~James M. Cain

The Shadow of Robber's Roost ~Helen Rushmore

The Great Train Robbery ~Michael Crichton

The Great Dinosaur Robbery ~David Forrest

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.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery ~Leonard Gribble

Bones of the Buried ~David Roberts

Final Cut ~Eric Wright

Castle Rouge ~Carole Nelson Douglas 

Blood on Her Shoe ~Medora Field

Jack on the Gallows Tree ~Leo Bruce

Any Shape or Form ~Elizabeth Daly

The Red Death Murders ~Jim Noy

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)

Murder Every Monday: The Case of....The Missing Monday

 

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).

My intention is to also post about them here on the blog. Periodically, I manage to miss Monday and post on some other day. Last week, I managed to miss posting at all. So...for your viewing pleasure I bring you both this week's prompt: Titles that begin with "The Case of" as well as last week's prompt: Cover with sunrise or sunset on.

First up: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me..."

While the Clock Ticked ~Franklin W. Dixon

And Then There Were None ~Agatha Christie

Murder After Hours ~Agatha Christie

I'll Be Judge I'll Be Jury ~Elizabeth Hely

Basil & the Pygmy Cats ~Eve Titus

The Will of the Tribe ~Arthur W. Upfied

The Grail Tree ~Jonathan Gash

The Port of London Murders ~Josephine Bell

Behold a Fair Woman ~Francis Duncan

The Obsidian Chamber ~Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Murder at the Abbey ~Irina Shapiro

*******************And This Week's Theme***************************

The Case of....an inordinate number of Erle Stanley Gardners (which I won't inflict on you). Seriously....I could post about 40-45 covers by Gardner alone.

The Case of the Constant God ~Rufus King

The Case of the Painted Girl ~Frank King

The Case of the Untidy Murder ~Frances & Richard Lockridge

The Case of the Blind Barber ~John Dickson Car

The Case of Sonia Wayward ~Michael Innes

The Case of the Unhappy Angels ~Geoffrey Homes

The Case of the Missing Bronte ~Robert Barnard 

The Case of the Baker Street Irregular ~Robert Newman

The Cases of Susan Dare ~Mignon G, Eberhart

The Case of the Talking Bug ~"The Gordons" (Mildred & Gordon)

The Case of the Sulky Girl ~Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Solid Key ~Anthony Boucher

The Case of the Famished Parson ~George Bellairs

The Case of Robert Quarry ~Andrew Garve 

The Case of Colonel Marchand ~E. C. R. Lorac

The Case of the Russian Diplomat ~E. V. Cunningham

The Case of the Colonist's Corpse ~Bob Ingersoll & Tony Isabella

The Case of the Dead Shepherd ~Christopher Bush

The Case of Cabin 13 ~Sam McCarver

The Case of the Innocent Victims ~John Creasey

The Case of the Paranoid Patient ~Anna Clarke

The Case of Jennie Brice ~Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Case of the Gilded Fly ~Edmund Crispin

The Case of the Kippered Corpse ~Margaret Scherf

Murder Every Monday: Death...after Death

 

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 titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link). 

 

Today's theme is crime fiction published posthumously. I could have sworn I owned Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (I can even see the cover in my head). Apparently, that's just wishful thinking, because I cannot find it anywhere--not on the shelves, not in my scanned cover files, not on my huge spreadsheet. Oh, well. I do have a few others to share with you.

Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers

Two-Way Murder by E. C. R. Lorac

Lord Peter by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey

My Lady's Garter ~Jacques Futrelle*

A Vacation to Kill For ~Eunice Mays Boyd

*which sounds like a romance, but the synopsis says it is is a theft mystery

Murder Every Monday (on Tuesday): You Can Bet On It

 

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 titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link). 

Today's theme is books with covers/titles that have a gambling theme.

Every Bet's a Sure Thing ~Thomas B. Dewey

Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die ~Robert J. Randisi

The Case of the Lucky Legs ~Erle Stanley Gardner

13 for Luck ~Agatha Christie

Good Luck to the Corpse ~Max Murray

The Last Gamble ~Rae Foley

Cards on the Table ~Agatha Christie

Death in the Cards ~Ann T. Smith

The Case of the Rolling Bones ~Erle Stanley Gardner

The Wheel Is Fixed ~James M. Fox

S. S. Murder ~Q. Patrick

Ghost of a Chance ~Kelley Roos

Death of a Racehorse ~John Creasey

Murder at the Racetrack ~Otto Penzler (ed)

The Casino Murder Case ~S. S. Van Dine

Murder Every Monday: Is This the End?

 

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 titles from books you own that meet prompts which she posts well in advance (see link). 

Today's theme is books with titles that have a word denoting finality.

Drawn Conclusion ~Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz

Case with No Conclusion ~Leo Bruce

Finished Off ~Rebecca Kent

Rope's End, Rogue's End ~E. C. R. Lorac

Death Comes as the End ~Agatha Christie

Tether's End ~Margery Allingham

Latter End ~Patricia Wentworth

The Mystery of Hunting's End ~Mignon G. Eberhart

Charity Ends at Home ~Colin Watson

Final Curtain ~Ngaio Marsh

A Masculine Ending ~Joan Smith

The Living End ~Frank Kane

Final Cut ~Eric Wright

The Final Pose ~Marcia Blair

Final Notice ~Jo Dereske

In the Last Analysis ~Amanda Cross

Look Your Last ~John Stephen Strange

When Last I Died ~Gladys Mitchell

The Last Escape (Dishonour Among Thieves) ~E. C. R. Lorac

His Last Bow ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective ~Leslie Thomas

Last Seen in London ~Anna Clarke

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story ~Michael Dibdin

Last Respects ~Catherine Aird

Rumpole's Last Case ~John Mortimer

At Last, Mr. Tolliver ~William Wiegand

Drury Lane's Last Case ~Ellery Queen (as Barnaby Ross)

Irene's Last Waltz ~Carole Nelson Douglas

Last Seen Wearing ~Colin Dexter

The Last Straw ~Doris Miles Disney