Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge 2012

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vintage mystery challenge 2012 Bev at My Reader’s Block is a great fan of mysteries published before 1960, as am I. These are the dime novels my dad read and that I cut my reading teeth on. For 2012, she’s offering a variety of ways to meet her Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge and I’m going to take on the Lethal Location theme.

1. The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham (1929)

2. Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie (1931)

3. The Cape Cod Tavern Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1934)

4. Halfway House by Ellery Queen (1936)

5. Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes (1936)

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4 Comments to

“Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge 2012”

On November 2nd, 2011 at 8:18 pm Bev@My Reader's Block Says:
Welcome to this one too! So Glad to have you joining us!
On November 2nd, 2011 at 9:28 pm Debbie Says:
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On November 25th, 2011 at 3:26 pm joyce troyer Says:
Strange Murders at Greystone was the first mystery I’d ever read. I found it in my parents’ basement, nearly 50 years ago. I loved the book then! Years later (maybe 25 years ago) I ordered it through a library consortium and reread it. It was not a great book, to say the least.

Then why am I today, in 2011, looking for it on line again? It’s a mystery…
On November 25th, 2011 at 3:48 pm Debbie Says:
ah, nostalgia, Joyce, nostalgia…..One of the first mysteries I ever read was Joan Clark’s Penny Nichols & the Knob Hill Mystery, published in 1939. I’m sure if I reread, I’d find it was not-so-good, but I’d love to lay my hands on a copy. 🙂