Challenge Complete: Full House 2017

I have successfully completed the Full House Challenge hosted @ The Book Date.

Here are all the 25 books:

ACROSS

FIRST LINE 

 NON-FICTION: Gandhi and Bhagat Singh by V.N. Datta

 ON TBR FOR 2+ YEARS: Safe House by Nicci French  (Since 2011)

MORE THAN 500 PAGES: Lajpat Rai: Life and Work by Feroz Chand (590 pages)

PAGE TURNER: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

MIDDLE-GRADE BOOK: Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse

SECOND LINE

2017 PUBLISHED: Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott

PUBLISHED PRE-2000: Invisible Green by John Sladek (Pub 1977)

UK/ EUROPEAN AUTHOR: The Purple Room by Mauro Casiraghi

BACK LIST BOOK FROM FAV AUTHOR: What Happened at Hazelwood by Michael Innes

BOOK FROM A LIST: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James (50 Most Suspenseful Novels)

THIRD LINE

AWARD WINNER: Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (Irish Literature Prize among others)

BOOK ABOUT BOOKS: An Old-Fashioned Mystery by Runa Fairleigh

SIZE WORD IN TITLE: A Nice Little Killing by Anthony Gilbert

TWO-WORDED TITLE: Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer

DEBUT BOOK: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

FOURTH LINE

FOOD ON COVER OR TITLE: Vegetable Duck by John Rhode

COZY MYSTERY: Death and the Pleasant Voices by Mary Fitt

BOOK FROM CHILDHOOD: The Boy who turned into an Engine by Enid Blyton

DIVERSITY BOOK: Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert

AUS/NZ AUTHOR: Shares in Murder by Judah Waten

FIFTH LINE

WESTERN: A Time for Hanging by Bill Crider

USA/ CANADIAN AUTHOR: The Shadow Guest by Hillary Waugh

NOT REALLY FOR YOU: The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald

ATTRACTIVE COVER: The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

BORROWED: Biography of Bhagat Singh by M.M. Juneja

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This is one of my favourite challenges and it is great when one gets the Full House. The 2018 edition of the challenge is up. Here are the details.