Golden Age Girls: 8 books by female authors OR 8 books with female detectives
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Cherchez le Homme: 8 books by male authors OR 8 books with male detectives
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Authors I hope to read for the challenge:
Rex Stout
Agatha Christie (wikipedia page)
Josephine Tey
Patricia Highsmith
Ngaio Marsh ?
Dorothy Sayers
Margery Allingham?
Mary Elizabeth Braddon?
Wilkie Collins?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Raymond Chandler?
G.K. Chesterton
Unread Agatha Christies--that my library has:
Death on the Nile (1937)
The Clocks (1963, would NOT count)
Sleeping Murder (written in the 40s, published after her death)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
Endless Night (1967, would NOT count)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
Hallowe'en Party (1969, would NOT count)
Peril at End House (1932, would NOT count)
The Hollow (1946)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
The Tuesday Club Murders (1932)
After the Funerals (1953)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
The Labors of Hercules (1947)
Partners in Crime (1929)
Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970, would NOT count)
Unread Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
The Francise Affair (1948)
Brat Farrar (1949)
To Love and Be Wise (1950)
The Singing Sands (1952)
Unread Dorothy Sayers:
Lord Peter--The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories. At least 18 or 19 of the twenty stories were published before 1939. (Lord Peter Views the Body, 1928; Hangman's Holiday, 1933; In the Teeth of the Evidence, 1939)
This site might help with finding new-to-me authors.
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