Hoosier Hills Book Sale 2018

Just as I do every year, I headed out to the Hoosier Hills Book Sale early in the morning on October 4th, armed with a humongous spreadsheet and a rolling shopping bag, to see what treasures I could find to bring home. I was hoping to get closer to my recording-breaking 103 books of two years ago, but I wound up just over last year's total of 55 with a two-day haul of 59 books. With more modern mysteries and modern reprints of classics than usual. And it's not just the community book fair that's been low on supply lately. For the second year in a row, I've come home from the Friends of Library clearance sales (both spring and fall) with nothing. Nada. Zilch. Somebody needs to start donating masses of vintage mysteries again....

But let's see what I did bring home...

Day One
Only Yesterday [nonfiction] by Frederick Lews Allen [1946 Bantam #27]
Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham [1963 MacFadden Books]
Judgment on Delchev by Eric Ambler [1952 Pocket Books #887]
Fair Maids Missing by Pierre Audemars [1964 Curtis Books]
The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley [2015 Crippen & Landru reprint]
Top Storey by Anthony Berkeley [1990 Chivers Press reprint]
Trixie Belden & the Mystery Off Glen Road by Julie Campbell [1956 cameo edition]
It Walks by Night by John Dickson Carr [1986 Zebra Books]
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie [1960 New Dell pock size]
Corpse de Ballet by Lucy Cores [2009 Rue Morgue Press reprint]
The Creepers by John Creasey [1962 Lancer Books]
Murder, London-South Africa by John Creasey [1967 Berkley Medallion]
Murder Makes Haste by John Creasey [1971 Lancer Books]
Parcels for Inspector West by John Creasey [1973 Pan Books]
So Young, So Cold, So Fair by John Creasey [1958 Dell pocket size]
The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts [2015 British Library Crime Classics reprint]
Death & the Mad Heroine by S. F. X. Dean [1985 first edition]
The Sleeping Tiger by D. M. Devine [2013 reprint]
She Died a Lady by Carter Dickson [1987 Zebra Books]
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate by Doris Miles Disney [1972 Berkley Medallion]
Tales of Terror & Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1979 Penguin]
The Markenmore Mystery by J. S. Fletcher [1923 Herbert Jenkins Ltd]
Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, & Daniel Stashower (eds) [2001]
The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene [1952 Bantam #971]
Marked for Murder by Brett Halliday [1959 Dell pocket size]
Murder in the Stacks by Marion Boyd Havinghurst [1989 reprint]
Stop Press by Michael Innes [2001 reprint]
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years by Michael Kurland (ed) [2006]
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang [1924 David McKay Company]
Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane [2016 first edition]

Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann (ed) [2013 first edition]
Gideon's Week by J. J. Marric [1964 Hodder & Stoughton]
The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree by Stuart Palmer [1933 Crime Club edition]
Murder in the Museum by John Rowland [2016 British Library Crime Classics reprint]
Black Orchids by Rex Stout [1966 Pyramid Books]
The Mountain Cat Murders by Rex Stout [1964 New Dell pocket size]
The President Vanishes by Rex Stout [1967 Pyramid Books]
Three for the Chair by Rex Stout [1957 Viking Press Book Club Edition]
Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories by T. S. Stribling [1975 Dover reprint]
Murder at Vassar by Elizabeth Atwood Taylor [1988]
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey [1967 Dell pocket size]
The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes by June Thomson [1990 first edition]
The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur W. Upfield [1969 Pan Books]
Boney & the Black Virgin by Arthur W. Upfield [1973 Pan Books]
Death of a Lake by Arthur W. Upfield [1971 Pan Books]
The Lake Frome Monster by Arthur W. Upfield [1970 Pan Books]
The Will of the Tribe by Arthur W. Upfield [1964 Berkley Medallion]

Day Two
The Gift Shop by Charlotte Armstrong [1968 Fawcett Crest first edition]
Hang the Little Man by John Creasey [1972 Lancer Books]
So Young to Burn by John Creasey [1969 Berkley Medallion]
Alive & Screaming (as by) Alfred Hitchcock [1980]
The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt [1976]
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré [1964 Signet]
Malice Domestic by Anne Perry (ed) [1997]
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey [1964 Dell pocket size]
The Busy Body by Donald Westlake [1971 Ballantine]
Seven Tears for Apollo by Phyllis A Whitney [1964 Fawcett Crest]
All Hallows' Evil by Valerie Wolzien [1980]

The 1944 Club

Simon over at Stuck in a Book is giving us a "quick warning to get those 1944 books off your shelves." Because starting next Monday, he and Karen are kicking off their biannual reading challenge where they ask everybody across the blogosphere to grab one or more books published in the same year. 

This fall, it’s 1944 – our first wartime year – and they're hoping we'll build up an interesting picture of 1944.

Any sort of book is welcome – novel, non-fiction, short stories, poetry – and any country or language, so long as it was first published in 1944!

I've got quite a collection of 1944 books hanging out on my TBR stacks, so we'll have to see what grabs my fancy. Here's the list of possibilities:

The Amethyst Spectacles by Frances Crane
The Opening Door by Helen Reilly
Arrow Pointing Nowhere by Elizabeth Daly
Dark Street Murders by Peter Cheyney
Pattern for Murder by Ione Sandberg Shriber
Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
Killing the Goose by Frances & Richard Lockridge
Sailor, Take Warning by Kelley Roos
Murder Enters the Picture by Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz
Crime on my Hands by George Sanders
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice
Said the Spider to the Fly by Richard Shattuck
The Glass Mask by Lenore Glen Offord
Dead Earnest by Alice Tilton
Murder & the Married Virgin by Brett Halliday
The Deaths of Lora Karen by Roman McDougald
Puzzle for Puppets by Patrick Quentin
Too Busy to Die by H.W. Roden
Murder Is Cheap by Anthony Gilbert
The Crooking Finger by Cleve F. Adams
Island in the Sky by Ernest K. Gann
Give Em the Ax by A. A. Fair
Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
The Visitor by Damon Runyon
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Absent in Spring by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
 

Supernatural Sherlocks

Supernatural Sherlocks: Stories from the Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2018) by Nick Rennison (ed) provides readers with fifteen stories of the supernatural, ostensibly with a detective cast in the Sherlock Holmes mold. The stories are interesting and atmospheric and enjoyable as ghost stories. But....

My main quibble with this book is that if one is going to describe the investigators found herein as "Supernatural Sherlocks" then those investigators should resemble a consulting detective more than a psychic ghost hunter. There should be solutions to the puzzles In truth, most of these are ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. Period. Yes, there are "detectives" who are investigating the phenomena, but it is rare that any of these detectives produce concrete solutions and most of the stories that do offer solutions don't offer plausible reasons for those solutions.

Case in point: The first of the stories to involve anything like detective work is "The Blue Room" by Lettice Galbraith. Mr. Maxwell, a then-student at Oxford and later professor, and Miss Erristoun manage to sort out the haunting of the titular room, but there is no string of investigations to bring them to the solution. Miss Erristoun has what can only be described as a hallucination cum nightmare while staying the night in the room that shows her where a secret panel is that hides important material. But there is no reason for her subconscious (or whatever) to lead her there. IF Maxwell's and her discoveries in the library had revealed that there were secret panels to be found in the house, then at least there would be reason for her to sleepwalk or whatever and find the thing. But no--we'll just put it down to ghostly forces leading her where she needs to go.

Vance in "The Boy of Blackstock" sounds and acts the most like Holmes. He says, "It's much too early yet to form an opion. You ought to know by now, Dexter, that I never jump to conclusions." Like Holmes, he keeps his theories and observations to himself. The events are given a human solution up to a point, but the ending is left open to speculation--was "the mischievous boy of Blackstock" who appeared to Lord Rystone the human agent or really a ghost?

I don't mind ghost stories. Tales of the supernatural are good for this time of year--a nice little bit of spine-tingling while one is safely ensconced on a couch with a cup of hot tea or hot chocolate at hand. But don't try and convince me that any Holmesian detecting is going on...that won't do at all. The stories that had Holmes confronting the supposed supernatural always had him producing a perfectly reasonable human-related solution. He did not rely on supernatural answers and defenses. I feel like Rennison (or whoever came up with the title/theme) was relying on the name Sherlock Holmes to pull in readers. It certainly attracted my attention and I couldn't help feeling let down when most of the "detectives" in question weren't really all that Holmes-like. ★★★

[Finished 9/30/18] 

Death at the Bar: Review

As part of the Ngaio Marsh Reading Challenge, I am rereading her first 12 Inspector Alleyn books (one per month). I read nearly all of these back in junior high school when I had run through all of the Agatha Christies that our public library had and was looking for more classic crime. This was my first time sitting down with Death at the Bar (1945) since then. I did listen to it as an audio novel several years ago and I have watched the televised version with Patrick Malahide, so the culprit did not come as such a surprise as it did in the past. As I mentioned in my review of the audio novel, Marsh managed to get me to focus on the same red herring both when I first read it and when I listened--but it hadn't been long enough this time for her to pull that trick again.

But down to cases: Attorney, Luke Watchman is headed to Devon and the Plume of Feathers pub for an annual holiday with his cousin Sebastian Parish and his friend Noman Cubitt.  On the way there he has a minor mishap with another motorist.  Watchman jumps out of his car to berate the other man on his driving habits and the driver mutters an apology at him and tries to avoid being seen clearly. Watchman is somewhat mollified, but gets the impression that he might know the other man and that the driver definitely doesn't want to be seen by him.

Watchman arrives at the Feathers and once settled he meets up with Parish and Cubitt in the private bar--where he regales them with the tale of his accident and his impressions of the other man. The other man is none other than Robert Legge--a fellow guest of the pub and a man who has been sitting in a secluded part of the bar.  Watchman tries to engage him in conversation, but it is clear that Legge does not want to be sociable.

During the course of the evening it is revealed that Legge is a "masterpiece" with the darts and can do all sorts of tricks with the darts and board--from playing Round the Clock (hitting point sections in order) to a circus-type move where he can outline a person's hand with darts.  Watchman doubts his skill--challenging him to repeat exactly a set of dart moves from the previous evening (and losing money on the bet) and then a game of Round the Clock, but shying away from presenting his hand for the circus trick.  The next evening Watchman changes his mind and says that if Legge can beat him at Round the Clock again, then he will let Legge do his dart and hand trick with him--he figures the worst that can happen is a prick from the dart and he's gotten a bit of courage from the brandy bottle produced by the proprietor.  

He would be wrong...by the end of the night Watchman is dead and a trace of cyanide found on the dart.  There was plenty of the stuff about the place--Abel Pomeroy, the pub owner, had been using the deadly poison to dispose of rats.  Someone decided to use it to dispose of Watchman.  But who?  The obvious person is Legge because he threw the dart.  But there are several witnesses to swear that he could not possibly have smeared poison on the instrument.  When Inspector Roderick Alleyn and Detective Sergeant Fox arrive to assist the local constabulary, they find all sorts of motives lurking about--there's Decima Moore and her boyfriend, Will Pomeroy who differ on politics and who don't appreciate Watchman's attentions to the lovely Decima; Parish and Cubitt are legatees under Watchman's will; and there are a couple of people who had dealings with Watchman in court.  The difficulty is that those with the most motive seem to have the least opportunity.  Fox will get a taste of poison himself (and be saved by Alleyn) before they can bring the crime home to the culprit.

I don't have a lot new to say about Death at the Bar. It is one of my favorite Alleyn novels. I particularly like the setting and the variety of characters. Since I remembered who the culprit was, I was able to focus more on the descriptions of the village and to watch the interactions between the characters. Overall, it still ranks as a ★★★★ outing.

One (totally minor but kindof annoying) thing that stood out to me on this reading was Marsh's over-use of the word "masterpiece." I get that she was trying to produce the flavor of the area's idiomatic language--but absolutely everything that was out of the ordinary was a "masterpiece"--from Legge's abilities in dart-throwing to the thunderous rain storm that hits the night of the murder to Alleyn and Fox, who have "the witty brains of those masterpieces at Scotland Yard."

[Finished 9/29/18]

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Quotes:
What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions. ~P. C. Oates (p. 55)

The coroner summed up at considerably length and with commendable simplicity. His manner suggested that the jury as a whole was certifiable as mentally unsound, but that he knew his duty and would perform it in the teeth of stupidity. (p. 84)

[regarding what was wrong with his car]
My good Harper, I have no notion. Fortunately I was becalmed near a garage. The fellow thrust his head among her smoking entrails, uttered some mumbojumbo, performed suitable rites with oil and water, and I was able to continue. ~Chief Constable Colonel Brammington (p. 106)

Foggy, Foggy Death: Review

Foggy, Foggy Death (1950) by Frances & Richard Lockridge is the third in the Captain Heimrich series of mysteries. As the title implies, a thick New England fog envelops the Bromwell's country estate and much mayhem ensues...including a murder. Heimrich has to get to the bottom of a stolen Cadillac with a glove compartment full of jewels, the disappearance of a small son, the appearance of a motorist with a convenient flat tire, a troubled marriage, and who's really in love with whom before he can sort out who might have wanted Marta Bromwell out of the way badly enough to drown her in the stream on the estate.

Tensions are thick at High Ridge--thick like the dense January fog that encircles the house and which hides danger. There are several people who had reason to dislike Marta Bromwell. Marta has grown tired of her husband and doesn't mind showing it. She lets other men escort her around the town...just staying within the bounds of decency. After all, she doesn't want to have to give up the shiny jewels that come with her position as Bromwell's wife. Scott Bromwell would love to be rid of her if he can find a way that will allow him to keep the children. And Bromwell's high-society mother would love to see the back of her daughter-in-law as well. Then there's Karen, the elder Mrs. Bromwell's secretary and friend of the family. She has recently realized that she cares for Scott...if only Marta would disappear....

Of course, it's not as easy as keeping it in the family. Heimrich learns that Marta has been playing her current escort against the mysterious "stranger" with the flat tire--and both men thought she was going to leave Bromwell for them. What if one of them discovered her tricks and, enraged, decided that if he couldn't have her then no one would? And then the killer gets worried that a certain car thief has seen or heard more than was good for him and kills again. It's quite a puzzle for Heimrich to untangle--even if the circumstantial evidence points towards the most obvious suspect..Scott Bromwell.

The Lockridge books are some of my favorite "light" mysteries from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I enjoy their recurring characters from Pam & Jerry North to Bill Weigand & Sergeant Mullins to Captain M. L. Heimich and Sergeant Forniss. This one is a good solid mystery--and enjoyable--but I did miss the usual Lockridge humor and the way they work animals into their stories (without making it cutesy or the-cat-solves-the crime). Here the humor is mainly felt with the car thief, Higgins, is on the scene--following him as he sneaks from room to room and holds and on-going conversation with himself is quite amusing. It would have been better if the humor had been a thread throughout. Its absence was a bit oppressive--like the fog. Perhaps that was the Lockridges' objective, to make the atmosphere of the book match the countryside around the house. The animals were also absent. Dog kennels are mentioned and a supposed visit to the kennels by the victim would seem to be vital to the plot, but we don't actually visit the kennels at all. ★★★ and 1/2.

[Finished 9/22/18]

  

Challenge Goal Complete: Century of Books

Just realized that I had made it half-way through my century of books (my declared goal for 2018). Simon at Stuck in a Book has challenged us through the A Century of Books Challenge to review a hundred years' worth of books (1919-2018). Any books, any genre--fiction, non-fiction--didn't matter. And we could set our pace. Since I have so many challenges, I decided 50 per year for 2018 and 2019 should be about right. But to make it a little trickier, I'm going to try and fulfill every year with a mystery or mystery-related book.

Here's my list of 51 books read so far with their years:

1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927: The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham (1/1/18)
1928: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (5/28/18)
1929
1930: About the Murder of Geraldine Foster by Anthony Abbott (3/22/18)
1931
1932: Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth (7/19/18)
1933: Red Warning by Virgil Markham (1/25/18)
1934: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (1/7/18)
1935: Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh (2/7/18)
1936: Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh (4/7/18)
1937: Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh (5/7/18)
1938: Then There Were Three by Geoffrey Homes (4/30/18)
1939: Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh (8/19/18)
1940: The Odor of Violets by Baynard Kendrick (2/27/18)
1941: With Blood & Kisses [apa: The Snark Was a Boojum] by Richard Shattuck (2/23/18)
1942
1943
1944: Avalanche by Kay Boyle (2/8/18)
1945: Payoff for the Banker by Frances & Richard Lockridge (3/15/18)
1946: Green for a Grave by Manning Lee Stokes (3/13/18)
1947: Another Woman's House by Mignon G. Eberhart (2/10/18)
1948
1949
1950: Terror in Times Square by Alan Handley (6/5/18)
1951: Beverly Gray's Secret by Clair Blank (2/13/18)
1952: The Blind Spot by John Creasey (8/23/18)
1953
1954: The Body in the Basket by George Bagby (5/22/18)
1955
1956: Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie (8/15/18)
1957: The Haunted Showboat by Carolyn Keene (8/2/18)
1958: Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus (8/24/18)
1959
1960
1961
1962: The Lacquer Screen by Robert Van Gulik (7/28/18)
1963
1964
1965: Some Beasts No More by Kenneth Giles (6/22/18)
1966
1967
1968
1969: The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird (2/16/18)
1970
1971: Basil & the Pygmy Cats by Eve Titus (8/24/18)
1972
1973
1974:
1975: Time of Terror by Hugh Pentecost (7/20/18)
1976: The Trouble in Hunter Ward by Josephine Bell (7/18/18)
1977:
1978: The Invisible Thief by Thomas Brace Haughey (9/5/18)
1979: The Zero Trap by Paula Gosling (4/8/18)
1980
1981: A Summer in the Twenties by Peter Dickinson (8/2/18)
1982: Lament for a Lady Laird by Margot Arnold (2/3/18)
1983: Scotland Yard Photo Crimes from the Files of Inspector Black by Henry Black (3/24/18)
1984: A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside (8/16/18)
1985: Dekok & Murder by Installment by A. C. Baantjer (5/30/18)
1986
1987: 
1988: The Grub-&-Stakers Pinch a Poke by Alisa Craig [Charlotte MacLeod] (9/10/18)
1989
1990
1991
1992: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet by Daniel D. Victor (4/27/18)
1993
1994: A Vow of Penance by Veronica Black (4/11/18)
1995
1996: Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas (3/4/18)
1997
1998: The Charles Dickens Murders by Edith Skom (9/15/18)
1999
2000
2001: Mrs. Malory & the Lilies That Fester by Hazel Holt (4/13/18)
2002: Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster by Marlis Day (4/10/18)
2003
2004
2005: The Sign of the Book by John Dunning (3/23/18)
2006
2007: The Hellfire Conspiracy by Will Thomas (6/1/18)
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (2/28/18)
2014: Murder at Midnight by C. S. Challinor (7/23/18)
2015: Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chamblis Bertman (3/24/18)
2016: Act One, Scene One--Murder by A. H. Richardson (1/30/18)
2017: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards (1/23/18)
2018

Just the Facts: Check Point #3

Calling all cars, calling all cars...Detectives are asked to check in with Headquarters. Please report progress. Headquarters out.

How did it get to be October so fast?? 

So...Fall is in the air (sortof...it was last week any way...this week is more like summer) and that means it's time to see how our detective challengers are doing with their notebooks. Last fall when I put together the latest version of the Vintage Mystery Challenge, I randomly selected items from the notebooks for our checkpoints. Here are the categories for our second checkpoint (January - September 30, no books finished in October):

WHO: Crime-Solving Duo
WHAT: Reference to man or woman in the title
WHEN: A historical crime
WHERE: On an island
HOW: At least two deaths by different means
WHY: It made a "best of" list

You may enter once for every item checked off in your notebooks. Both Gold & Silver cards count. Please use the linky below to link up reviews and enter your items under the following "Name":

Your name (Category) Card 
 ~Example: Bev (Crime-Solving Duo) Gold

If you do not have a blog or other way to link up below, then you may use the above format for all of your items and list them in the comments below. You will also earn one entry for every item.

The linky will be open until midnight on Thursday, October 11. Sometime on Friday, I will pull out the Custom Random Number Generator and select a winner. Good luck!

Mountaineering Check Point #3

Oh my goodness!  Where does the time go?  Last I checked, September was just starting....and now it's gone and it's time to get the third quarterly checkpoint up and running. Let's see how our challengers are doing after they've got 9 months under the ol' mountain-climbing belt.  

For those who would like to participate in this checkpoint post, I'd like you to do two things:
 

1. Tell us how many miles you've made it up your mountain (# of books read).  If you're really ambitious, you can do some intricate math and figure out how the number of books you've read correlates to actual miles up Pike's Peak, Mt. Ararat, etc. 

I've read 91 out 100 books towards Mt. Everest which means I've managed about 26,416 feet. The air's getting a bit thin and I'm low on steam. I may launch a rocket ship to Mt. Olympus on Mars yet, but I don't see a flag getting planted on that peak. Oh, well...there's always next year.

2. Complete ONE (or more if you like) of the following:

A. Who has been your favorite character so far? And tell us why, if you like.

B. Pair up two of your reads. But this time we're going for opposites. One book with a male protagonist and one with a female protagonist. One book with "Good" in the title and one with "Evil." Get creative and show off a couple of your books.

Mine: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain AND Death at the Dog by Joanna Cannan

C. Which book (read so far) has been on your TBR mountain the longest? Was it worth the wait? Or is it possible you should have tackled it back when you first put it on the pile? Or tossed it off the edge without reading it all?

Mine: The Invisible Thief by Thomas Brace Haughey [on TBR since 1983]

D. Using titles from your list, see if you can tell a short story (or story blurb) or make a mini-poem. Feel free to add a few filler words here and there if needed. Here's my example:

A Man Lay Dead (in) Another Woman's House. Pride & Prejudice (led to) Murder at Midnight By the Light of the Study Lamp. (Several) Women Sleuths (use the) Odor of Violets (and) The Sign of the Book (to solve this) Untidy Murder.

Please prepare your answers in a Checkpoint blog post and link up below.

And what do you get for all that hard work (and distraction from the actual climb)? The link will close at 11:59 pm on Friday, October 12.  Sometime the next day I will crank up the Custom Random Number Generator and pick a winning climber. He or she will have the chance to add to their TBR stack via my gently-used book vault (prize list will be sent). Just think, if you win a book you can start up a pile for next year's Mount TBR Challenge. 

Even if you're not in the mood for a prize or you've already finished your climb, I'd love to have you check in with us and tell us all your news!

***Please note--the linky is for Checkpoint posts only.  The link must be to a specific Checkpoint post (not your blog's home page in general). Links that are not Checkpoint-specific will be removed--to make it easier for me to track a winner.  Enter here OR on my Goodreads Challenge site (but not both places, please).

Sign in below with your Checkpoint post.

October Follow the Clues Reviews

October Mount TBR Reviews

October Key Word Reviews

October Monthly Key Words: Black, Mask, Ghost, Witch, Castle, Moon, Night, Haunt, Mystery

Please note that you may post any catch-up posts here as well--just be clear when you name your link-up which month it's for (if not October).

October Just the Facts Reviews

   

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