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20.9 BirthdayThere's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott
Task total: 20 (book has 256 pages)
Season total: 410
21/21 Possession
20.7 CanadaThe Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley (born in Canada)
Task total: 20
Season total: 390
20/20 Possession
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 466 Connie wrote: "10.1 Pick a Card, any CardDiamond Ace (has 75-199 pages)
Daisy Miller by Henry James
+10 task
+10 oldie (pub 1878)
Thanks, Elizabeth, but I don't think I'll have time for more than 3 short tasks so I'll keep it there.
Task total: 20
Season total..."
20.5 RussiaMy Life by Anton Chekhov
+20 task
+10 oldie (pub 1896)
Task total: 30
Season total: 370
19/19 Possession
20.3 Middle EastSet in Iran
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Task total: 20
Season total: 340
18/18 Possession
10.1 Pick a Card, any CardDiamond Ace (has 75-199 pages)
Daisy Miller by Henry James
+10 task
+10 oldie (pub 1878)
Task total: 20
Season total: 320
17/17 Possession
What beautiful, meticulous work! He should be very proud of that plane.
Mystery Challenge-Part 21960 -
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1965 - Odds Against by Dick Francis (8/28/22)
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1968 - The Man on the Bench in the Barn by Georges Simenon (10/28/23)
1969 - Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie (2/4/24)
1970 - Time and Again by Jack Finney (9/20/20)
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1972 - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (11/12/24)
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1975 - A Quiet Place by Seichō Matsumoto (3/12/22)
1976 - Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette (1/2/21)
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1980 - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1/6/24)
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1985 - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (11/13/20)
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1988 - Thornyhold by Mary Stewart (9/25/24)
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1990 - Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (10/16/20)
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1996 - Honky Tonk Kat by Karen Kijewski (10/22/21)
1997 - The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley (7/30/20)
1998 - All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark (11/19/23)
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2000 - After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell (1/2/24)
2001 - The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly (5/6/22)
2002 - The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (7/24/21)
2003 - The Light of Day by Graham Swift (7/18/22)
2004 - Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood (8/24/21)
2005 - Still Life by Louise Penny (6/3/23)
2006 - Raven Black by Ann Cleeves(12/15/20)
2007 - Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (4/18/22)
2008 - When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (8/6/21)
2009 - The Dinner by Herman Koch (9/28/22)
2010 - The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah (10/19/21)
2011 - A Double Death on the Black Isle by A.D. Scott (11/2/21)
2012 - The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James (5/21/24)
2013 - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (9/10/22)
2014 - The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain (4/18/21)
2015 - Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline (8/4/23)
2016 - The Dry by Jane Harper (3/14/21)
2017 - The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers (11/8/20)
2018 - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (7/16/21)
2019 - Careful What You Wish For by Hallie Ephron (12/30/20)
2020 - Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (9/6/20)
2021 - The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt (7/27/21)
2022 - The Maid by Nita Prose (8/2/22)
2023 - Homecoming by Kate Morton (12/6/23)
2024 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (12/4/24)
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Mystery Challenge-Part 11900 -
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1905 - The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green (9/2/21)
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1922 - The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (11/15/22)
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1929 - The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen (2/3/22)
1930 - The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (8/28/24)
1931 - Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts (7/9/22)
1932 - Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (10/16/24)
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1934 - The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (11/23/22)
1935 - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (12/2/22)
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1937 - Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon (12/18/20)
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1942 - Laura by Vera Caspary (11/21/21)
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1944 - Maigret and the Toy Village by Georges Simenon (1/20/22)
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1948 - I Married a Dead Man by William Irish (12/26/22)
1949 - Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner (4/8/21)
1950 - Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (10/2/20)
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1954 - The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith (11/20/21)
1955 - Beast In View by Margaret Millar (10/27/21)
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1958 - Fools' Gold by Dolores Hitchens (11/25/20)
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That's a great idea, Elizabeth. Mysteries have changed a lot over the years, and it should be fun for you to see the trends.I like the mystery reviews on the Crimesreads website.
20.4 FranceA Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
+20 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1989)
Task total: 25
Season total: 300
16/16 Possession
I finished up my library books that I had in possession by June 1, and am now reading books that I own. It's so good to see a few empty spots in my bookcase!
10.2 Author NameThe Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
+10 task
+ 5 oldie (pub 1990)
+ 5 multiple
Task total: 20
Season total: 255
10.5 SuffragettesBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
+10 task (born 1903)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1945)
Task total: 15
Season total: 235
13/13 Possession
10.7 Ed's TaskThe Dwelling Place by Catherine Cookson
+10 task
+ 5 oldie 1971
+ 5 multiple
12/12 Possession
Task total: 20
Season total: 220
20.2 AsiaThe Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
+20 task (set in Japan)
+ 5 oldie (pub 1994)
Task total: 25
Season total: 190
10/10 possession
20.8 Beatrix PotterDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
+20 task
+15 oldie (pub 1850)
+15 jumbo (882 pg)
+ 5 multiples
Task total: 55
Season total: 165
9/9 Possession
