For the year 2016, Bev Hankins of My Reader's Block has come up with a very clever idea. Previous years have challenged readers to complete mystery bingos. In 2016, readers will be challenged to locate objects on the covers of the books which they read. Thus, they will judge a book by its cover.
Some of the rules read as follows:
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to find as many objects on the scavenger hunt list as possible on the covers of the mystery books you read. As has been the case for Vintage Bingo you may play along in either the Golden or Silver Mystery Eras (or, for the more adventurous, both)."
"*Minimum number of items to complete the challenge and to be eligible for the participation prize drawing at the end of the year is six items from the covers of books read from a single Vintage Mystery Era. If you choose to do both eras, you must use separate checklists. You may not, for example, find three golden age items and three silver age items to claim the minimum six."
A more complete list of rules may be found at Bev's web site.
The list of items to be located for the Golden Challenge are in the graphic below
My progress:
1. Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr. Picture of any other animal (rat)
2. The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr. Picture of a hangman's noose.
3. The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay. Picture of a Christmas tree.
4. Speak No Evil by Mignon G. Eberhart. Picture of a telephone.
5. The Deadly Truth by Helen McCloy. Picture of a drinking glass.
6. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh. Picture of Artist/Art Equipment.
7. The Skeleton in the Clock by John Dickson Carr. Picture of a clock/timepiece.
8. The Estate of the Beckoning Lady by Marjorie Allingham. Picture of a policeman.
9. No Coffin for the Corpse by Clayton Rawson. Picture of just one person.
10. And So to Murder by Carter Dickson. Picture of a typewriter.
11. The Reader is Warned by Carter Dickson. Picture of a mask.
12. Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell. Picture of a skull.
13. Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin. Picture of a revolver.
14. The Emperor's Snuff Box by John Dickson Carr. Picture of a broken object.
15. The Fallen Sparrow by Dorothy B. Hughes. Picture of a bird.
1. Sweet Death, Kind Death by Amanda Cross. Picture of a body of water.
2. No Case for the Police by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. Picture of a clock.
3. Death's Bright Dart by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. Picture of a blue object.
4. A Stitch in Time by Emma Lathen. Picture of a nurse.
5. Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen. Picture of two people.
6. Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard. Picture of a drinking glass.
7. The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss. Picture of a skeletal hand.
8. Banking on Death by Emma Lathen. Picture of a dead body.
9. The Longer the Thread by Emma Lathen. Picture of just one person.
10. Green Grow the Dollars by Emma Lathen. Picture of a green object.
1 comment:
Welcome back for another year! I'm really looking forward to the cover displays.
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