I have so many anthologies, I hardly know where to begin.
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Ok, a perusal of my shelves gave me the following books that I haven’t even cracked open yet:
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers 1850-1917;
Bodies from the Library V. 1: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age;
Great Stories of Crime and Detection V. III: The Forties and the Fifties (Folio);
Great Stories of Crime and Detection V. IV: The Sixties to the Present (Folio);
I figure that gives me something resembling a time continuum of mysteries spanning a century or so.
So, here’s the table:
| Suit: |
Short story title: | Date drawn/read: |
| In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers 1850-1917 | ||
| A ❤️ | The Advocate’s Wedding Day By Catherine Crowe | |
| 2 ❤️ | The Squires Story By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
| 3 ❤️ | Traces Of Crime By Mary Fortune | |
| 4 ❤️ | Mr Furbush, by Harriet Prescott Spofford | |
| 5 ❤️ | Mrs Todhetley’s Earrings By Ellen Wood | 15 January (m/up for 1 January) |
| 6 ❤️ | Catching A Burglar By Elizabeth Corbett | |
| 7 ❤️ | The Ghost Of Fountain Lane By C.L. Pirkis | 15 January |
| 8 ❤️ | The Statement Of Gerard Johnson By Geraldine Bonner | |
| 9 ❤️ | Point in Morals by Ellen Glasgow | 22 January |
| 10 ❤️ | The Blood-Red Cross by L. T. Mead, and Robert Eustace | 12 March |
| J ❤️ | The Regent’s Park Murder by Baroness Orczy | |
| Q ❤️ | The Case Of The Registered Letter By Augusta Groner | |
| K ❤️ | The Winning Sequence By M.E. Braddon | |
| Bodies from the Library V. 1: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age | ||
| A ♠️ | Before Insulin by JJ Connington | |
| 2 ♠️ | The Inverness Cape by Leo Bruce | 12 March |
| 3 ♠️ | Dark Waters, by Freeman Wills Crofts | |
| 4 ♠️ | Linckes’ Great Case by Georgette Heyer | |
| 5 ♠️ | ‘Calling James Braithwaite’ by Nicholas Blake | |
| 6 ♠️ | The Elusive Bullet by John Rhode | 6 February |
| 7 ♠️ | The Euthanasia of Hillary’s Aunt by Cyril Hare | |
| 8 ♠️ | The Girdle of Dreams by Vincent Cornier | |
| 9 ♠️ | The Fool And The Perfect Murder by Arthur Upfield | 12 February |
| 10 ♠️ | Bread Upon the Waters by AA Milne | 19 February |
| J ♠️ | The Man with the Twisted Thumb by Anthony Berkeley | |
| Q ♠️ | The Rum Punch by Christianna Brand | |
| K ♠️ | Blind Man’s Bluff by Ernest Bramah | |
| Great Stories of Crime and Detection V. III: The Forties and the Fifties (Folio) | ||
| A ♦️ | The Splinter by Mary Roberts Rinehart | 26 February |
| 2 ♦️ | A Perfectly Ordinary Case of Blackmail by AA Milne | |
| 3 ♦️ | Cops Gift by Rex Stout | 8 January |
| 4 ♦️ | I Can Find My Way Out by Ngaio Marsh | |
| 5 ♦️ | Inspector Maigret Pursues by Georges Simenon | |
| 6 ♦️ | The Assassins Club by Nicholas Blake | |
| 7 ♦️ | The Riddle of the Black Museum by Stuart Palmer | |
| 8 ♦️ | The Gettysburg Bugle by Ellery Queen | |
| 9 ♦️ | The Proverbial Murder by John Dickson Carr | |
| 10 ♦️ | The Sands of Thyme by Michael Innes | |
| J ♦️ | No Motive by Daphne du Maurier | 26 March |
| Q ♦️ | The Arrow of God by Leslie Charteris | |
| K ♦️ | Witness for the Prosecution by Q. Patrick | |
| Great Stories of Crime and Detection V. IV: The Sixties to the Present (Folio) | ||
| A ♣️ | The Evidence I Shall Give by H.R.F. Keating | 5 March |
| 2 ♣️ | Freeze Everybody by David Williams | |
| 3 ♣️ | Coyote by Len Deighton | |
| 4 ♣️ | Licensed Guide by Eric Wright | |
| 5 ♣️ | Evans Tries an O-level by Colin Dexter | |
| 6 ♣️ | The Man Who Rode for the Shore by Catherine Aird | |
| 7 ♣️ | The Wink by Ruth Rendell | 2 April |
| 8 ♣️ | Custom Killing by Howard Engle | |
| 9 ♣️ | Have a Nice Death by Antonia Frazier | |
| 10 ♣️ | Skeeks, by Donald E Westlake | |
| J ♣️ | The Last High Mountain, by Clark Howard | 29 January |
| Q ♣️ | Of Mice and Men, and Two Women by Julian Rathbone | |
| K ♣️ | Crowded Hour by Reginald Hill | |