Book Challenge

[dagonell]

I didn't care for the categories in this year's Popsugar Book Challenge or Goodread's Book Challenge.  So, I decided I'd just catch up on books I've been meaning to read while looking for other challenges.  One interesting one I found was A Century of Mysteries, read ten mystery novels, each one written in a different decade of the past century.  Doing a search by publication date on Goodreads, I discovered I was done.  Too simple.  So, I decided to make it harder.  Each novel had to be the first appearance of the detective and I went all the way back to the first detective story.  It took awhile just to compile the list of what fit the category and was available.  Seeing as I'm over two thirds done, I decided to post a progress report here.

* read and reviewed
- TBRL

1840's * Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales - Edgar Allen Poe - 1841 (C. August Dupin #1) [1]
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5359075515
1850's - Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 1853 (Detective Inspector Bucket #1) 
        Available online.  At 1000+ pages, the longest book on this list!
1860's The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins - 1868 (Sergeant Cuff #1) 316 pgs.
        I own a copy
1870's - Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy - 1871 (Cytherea Graye #1) [2] 
        Available online. 
1880's * A Study in Scarlet - A.C. Doyle - 1887 (Sherlock Holmes #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5483750402
1890's * The Amateur Cracksman - E.W. Hornung - 1899 (Raffles the Gentleman Thief #1) [3]
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5393341103
1900's - The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad - 1907 (Secret Agent #1) 
        Available thru ILL
1910's * The Innocence of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton - 1911 (Father Brown #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5344859433
1920's * The House Without a Key - Earl Derr Biggers - 1925 (Charlie Chan #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5322375198
1930's * Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie - 1930 (Miss Marple #1) [4]
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2997909798
1940's * The Moving Target - Ross MacDonald - 1949 (Lew Archer #1) 246 pgs.
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5473451992
1950's * Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - 1953 (James Bond #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5454117269
1960's * Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman - 1964 (Rabbi Small #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4643042322
1970's * Rest You Merry - Charlotte MacLeod - 1978 (Peter Shandy #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2259193613
1980's * Fellowship of Fear - Aaron Elkins - 1982 (Gideon Oliver #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5291228328
1990's * One for the Money - Janet Evanovich - 1994 (Stephanie Plum #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5344837368
2000's - Angels and Demons - Dan Brown - 2000 (Robert Langdon #1) 
          I own a copy
2010's * Now You See Me - Sharon J. Bolton - 2011 (Lacey Flint #1)
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5347352453
2020's * Murder Goes to Market - Daisy Bateman - 2020 (Claudia Simcoe #1) 
        https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5317380578
[1] The FIRST modern detective story!
[2] His debut novel!
[3] A.C. Doyle's Brother-in-law! John Barrymore played both Raffles and Holmes in movies. 
[4] 'The Thirteen Problems' was written first, but published second.