I had some time today, so I put together a bingo card for us!



Each number refers to a chapter in The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. The images are either a detail from the cover image of a book mentioned in the chapter, with the exception of #3, and I couldn't resist an image of Hercule Poirot for a chapter called The Great Detectives!

1. A New Era Dawns: cover detail from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Birth of the Golden Age:: cover detail from The Mystery of the Red House by A.A. Milne
3. The Great Detectives: Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet
4. Play Up! Play Up! and Play the Game!: cover detail from The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Croft
5. Miraculous Murders: cover detail from Miraculous Murders anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
6. Serpents in Eden: cover detail from Serpents in Eden anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
7. Murder at the Manor: cover detail from Murder at the Manor anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
8. Capital Crimes: cover detail from Capital Crimes anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
9. Resorting to Murder: cover detail from Resorting to Murder anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
10. Making Fun of Murder: cover detail from Ask A Policeman by The Detection Club
11. Education, Education, Education: cover detail from Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
12. Playing Politics: cover detail from The End of Andrew Harrison by Freeman Wills Croft
13. Scientific Enquiries: cover detail from Death of an Airman by Christopher St. John Sprigg
14. The Long Arm of the Law: cover detail from The Long Arm of the Law anthology, edited by Martin Edwards
15. The Justice Game: cover detail from Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate
16. Multiplying Murders: cover detail from The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon
17. The Psychology of Crime: cover detail from Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester
18. Inverted Mysteries: cover detail from Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith
19. The Ironists: cover detail from Family Matters by Anthony Rolls
20. Fiction from Fact: cover detail from The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
21. Singletons: cover detail from Darkness at Pemberley by T.H. White
22. Across the Atlantic: cover detail from Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
23. Cosmopolitan Crimes: cover detail from Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
24. The Way Ahead: cover detail from The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake

Wow -- thank you so much! This is one beautiful card!! (Yet again!) Especially the center square ... (evil grin). :D

What does it say about my TBR that I actually recognize most of the various images you used for the card?

Reply to post #2 (show post):
Yes, I had to draft Eric the Skull into the center square! I'm actually totally in love with the way that this turned out! I had several false starts before I came up with this idea.

Interesting idea. I almost wish I had the book so I could play. Looks great, anyway!

Reply to post #4 (show post):
Strictly speaking, you don't have to have the book -- all you need by way of reference is the reading lists I created. They contain all the books that Edwards mentions -- not only the "100 (main) books" that he presents but every single title he name-checks ... which essentially ended up being a run-down of everybody who was anybody and anything at all in the first half of the 20th century when it came to crime fiction.

Reply to post #5 (show post):
Except I won't always know which chapter a book falls into... My TBR probably doesn't need this anyway. :)

Reply to post #6 (show post):
Well, you know we're always ready to help a fellow reader out - especially if we can drag their TBR down (up??) with our own. :D

Reply to post #7 (show post):
... and we'll be happy to answer such simple questions as "so, is this in chapter 6 or 7?" :D

Reply to post #8 (show post):
Fair enough. We'll see. :)

Certainly it is probably an undisputed fact that no one's TBR needs this! ;0)