For the first time, I am participating in 20 Books of Summer event, hosted @ 746 books. Starting from tomorrow, 1st June till 31st August, I have to finish (read and review) 20 books from the 23 listed below. The 3 extra are just a safety net. 😀
These are the books I have selected:
Ruins of Gorlan -John Flangan
They Don’t Dance Much – James Ross
The Aosawa Murders – Riku Onda
The Death Head’s Chess Club – John Donoghue
Death in Fancy Dress – Anthony Gilbert
Seven Dead – J.Jefferson Farjeon
Fancy Dress Ball – J. Jefferson Farjeon
Back to Victoria – J. Jefferson Farjeon
The Mad Hatter Mystery – John Dickson Carr
Plague Court Murders – Carter Dickson
Aunt Biddie – Joseph Shearing
Moss Rose – Joseph Shearing
The Strange Blue Yawl – Lucille Fletcher (June ’20)
The Girl in Cabin B54 – Lucille Fletcher
Death in Tunnel – Miles Burton
Miss Bones – Joan Fleming (June ’20)
Be a Good Boy – Joan Fleming
When I Grow Rich – Joan Fleming
A Thirsty Evil – P.M. Hubbard
The 24th Horse – Hugh Pentecost
Death of a Stray Cat – Jean Potts
The Last Escape – E.C.R. Lorac (June ’20)
The Golden Beast – E.P. Oppenheim
Have you read any of these? How did you find it/ them? If you want to participate in the event, you can do so over here.
Thanks so much for taking part – great to have you on board! Good luck and happy reading x
LikeLike
Thanks Cathy for the warm welcome. Really looking forward to this.
LikeLike
What a great list, I’ve not read any of these and they all look very interesting, so I look forward to your reviews.. I’ve still to do my list and it’s already 4pm, so I’d better get going.
LikeLike
Thanks for your encouraging words and am happy to know that you are participating in it too. Looking forward to your list.
LikeLike
Hi – would you be able to email me direct as there is a problem with my name on the comment I posted above and I need to get it changed if possible? Sorry to be a nuisance. Thanks.
LikeLike
Sorry but email you what? Aren’t you the one with the lovely blog: Scones and Chaises Longues? And I absolutely love that name 😃
LikeLike
I’ve just randomly found The Aosawa Murders in a bookshop but have not read yet. You will love Death In The Tunnel by Miles Burton – I have reviewed Burton’s The Hardway Diamonds Mystery and (under his other pseudonym John Rhode) Death On The Boat Train and Death at Breakfast – I’ve just purchased The Paddington Mystery. I have a big collection of EP Oppenheim, my favourite being The Great Impersonation and The Last Train Out. Those as well as The Grassleyes Mystery and A Daughter Of The Marionis are all reviewed on my site. You are very organized, I tend to grab whatever is in front of me – Happy reading!
LikeLike
I am not too organized, Eden. A majority of these books are needed for the various Reading Challenges I am participating in. Further they are taking up a lot of space in my laptop and I need to read them before my laptop stops talking to me. It was a Miles Burton review that led me to your blog so I’ll always be thankful for that. Have recently read his Secret of High Eldersham which faltered after a promising beginning. I read The Great Impersonation this year. It was interesting but not as good as The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent. Am excited about The Aosawa Murders.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have not read any of these, so I look forward to all your reviews. I am pretty sure I have the one by Jean Potts, and I am intrigued by Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert. And love that cover.
LikeLike
That cover is lovely, isn’t it? Of all the books on this list, the Gilbert is the one I am most excited about. Thanks Tracy for your encouraging words.
LikeLike
The only one I’ve read is Death in Fancy Dress and I enjoyed it. Great cover, isn’t it? Have a wonderful summer’s reading – I look forward to the reviews!
LikeLike
Thanks a lot for your encouraging words FictionFan. It’s the first time I am participating in this so I am nervous as well as excited. Glad to see you back in the blogosphere.😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m participating for the first time as well. Looks like a really fun event and fun way to spend the Summer.
I love the covers of the British Crime Library books. Whoever designed that series did a marvelous job.
LikeLike
Welcome to the blog. it’d be a big relief if I am able to get the readings done. always nice when one has the encouragement of a whole lot of people.
The covers are fabulous, aren’t they? In these days of computer-generated images, they are doing a very good job.
LikeLike
I have not read any of these!
Going by title alone, I’m looking forward to your reviews of:
Plague Court Murders – Carter Dickson
The Girl in Cabin B54 – Lucille Fletcher
Be a Good Boy – Joan Fleming
The 24th Horse – Hugh Pentecost
and
Death of a Stray Cat – Jean Potts
LikeLike
Of these, I am most intrigued by The Plague Court Murders but I hope all my reads turn out to be interesting.
LikeLike