MYSTERY READER'S CHALLENGE 2015

REPORTER CHALLENGE:

Who? What? Where? When? How?

Why? – because it’s fun to read!

Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category)

Columnist:   10 books (2 from each category)

News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)

Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)

Newspaper Mogul: 25 books

WHO

Protagonist is a librarian

Protagonist is a government agent

Protagonist is a ghost

Protagonist works with animals (vet, dog walker, zoo, etc)

Protagonist is a crook

WHAT

Holiday in the title

Animal in the title

Weather in the title

Poison in the title

Title starts with the same letter as your last name

WHERE

Set in England

NOT set on land (cruise ship, boat, airplane, spaceship, etc)

Set on an Island

Set on foreign soil (not America or England)

Historical novel

WHEN

One book set during any holiday

One that centers around a convention or conference

One Dark & Stormy night – bad weather plays big role in story

One where the protagonist has to beat the clock (time is crucial to solving mystery)

One set during a vacation

HOW

(Method of Murder)

Poison is murder weapon

Knife/stabbing is murder weapon

Gun/shooting is murder weapon

Blunt object is murder weapon

Rope/strangulation is murder weapon

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Rules:  For this challenge – Each book can only be used for 1 category (Ex: Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap – victim is strangled, the setting is in England and they are cut off from the world due to bad weather.  But you can only place this story in 1 of the categories)

The challenge runs from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.

You don’t have to choose your books in advance.  If you do, you can change your list at any time during the year.

Books can be in any format – paper, ebooks, audio…

Crossovers with other challenges are fine.

Happy reading!