Vintage Mysteries Challenge

I am so excited for this one! The original challenge can be found here.

Step 1: Choose your theme

1. Colorful Crime: 8 books with colors in the title
2. Murder by the Numbers: 8 books with a number in the title
3. Occupational Hazards: 8 books with a “detective” who is not a P.I.; Police Officer; Official Investigator (Nurse Keate, Father Brown, Miss Marple, etc.)
4. Perilous Policemen: 8 books with a policeman as the primary investigator
5. Lethal Locations: 8 books that are all about place (for instance: country houses, hospitals, schools or even particular cities/countries)
6. Dangerous Beasts: 8 books with an animal in the title (The Bat; The Canary Murder Case; etc.)
7. Deadly Decades: 8 books, one from each time period plus one of your choice (Pre-1900s; 1900-09; 1910-19; 1920-1929; 1930-1939; 1940-1949; 1950-59)
8. Golden Age Girls: 8 books by female authors OR 8 books with female detectives
9. Cherchez le Homme: 8 books by male authors OR 8 books with male detectives
10. Murderous Miscellany: Choose your own theme. Get creative–surprise us! The only stipulation is that the theme cannot be reading books by a single author.

I choose #7 and #10

Step 2: Choose your books – at least 8

 

7. Deadly Decades:

Pre-1900s: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

1900-09: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1903)

1910-19:Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley (1913)

1920-29:The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley (1929)

1930-39: The Glass Key by DAshiell Hammett (1931)

1940-49: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

1950-59: Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh AND The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

10. Murderous Miscellany: The theme is book-to-movie: read a classic novel that has been made into a film.

1. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
2. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
3. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
4. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
5. The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler (1939)
6. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
7. A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (1953)
8. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938)
9. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon (1959)
10. Green for Danger by Christianna Brand (1944)

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