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phoenixfalls

Mystery Challenge, 2011

Jan 04, 2011 17:36

1. AND THE AWARD GOES TO? Read a mystery that has won a literary award within the past five years.

2. THOSE WERE THE DAYS: Read a mystery from the Golden Age of Mysteries.
Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers. Completed 1/23/11.

3. ONE, TWO THREE: Read a mystery that has a number in the title.
Six Against the Yard, by the Detection Club. ( Read more... )

2011, bookeeping

Comments 4

comrade_cat January 5 2011, 01:59:06 UTC

...so if you read a prehistoric talking dinosaur mystery set on Pangaea, which continent would it count towards?

Without Lawful Authority, by Manning Coles, written in the 40s set in the UK, is really funny.

phoenixfalls January 5 2011, 03:35:49 UTC

FIND ME THAT BOOK!

I will read it and declare the section moot. ;)

comrade_cat January 5 2011, 03:58:13 UTC

Well, it could count towards whatever location that part of Pangaea will be in our time . . .

And I'm sure most prehistoric time travel stories count, even if the authors are not about to spend the time figuring out what part of the world the butterfly was stepped on. :)

According to Seasick, by Alanna Mitchell, dinosaurs used to roam amidst tropical plants near the north pole.

BTW, can I read your dinosaurs-in-the-yard story?

phoenixfalls January 5 2011, 04:35:59 UTC

I could email you the first chapter. . . it's very much unfinished though, and I think I may have to scrap that bit, because I'm going to have to totally reorganize the novel, and I can't see how I can fit the scene in anymore. This is why they call it "killing your darlings" isn't it? Sadness.

So yeah, if you're curious, I can email you the first chapter. I doubt it'll be at all what you expect though. . .