2016 Mt. TBR Final Checkpoint

/ Joel

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I successfully hit my goal of 75 books off the TBR pile for the TBR Challenge to reach El Toro, but could probably have reached Mt. Everest with a little more focus in October and November. Here’s the final list:

  1. Tickets for Death by Brett Halliday (3 copies, purchased in 2008, 2009, and 2011)
  2. Assignment Treason by Edward S. Aarons (on TBR pile since 2009)
  3. Broken Shield by Ben Benson (on TBR pile since 2007)
  4. Blow Hot, Blow Cold by Ellery Queen (on TBR pile since prior to 2006)
  5. Day of the Ram by William Campbell Gault (on TBR pile only since 2015)
  6. Nude in Nevada by Thomas B. Dewey (on TBR pile since 2015)
  7. The Price of Murder by John D. MacDonald (2 copies, prior to 2006 and 2007)
  8. Turn on the Heat by A.A. Fair (on TBR pile since 2007)
  9. Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr (purchased in 2015)
  10. Shakedown by Richard Ellington (on TBR pile prior to 2006)
  11. Million Dollar Murder by Edward S. Aarons (on TBR pile prior to 2006)
  12. Stone Cold Blonde by Adam Knight (on TBR pile since 2008)
  13. Swan Song by Edmund Crispin (on TBR pile since ca. 2005)
  14. Death Lights a Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  15. The Toff Goes to Market by John Creasey
  16. The Silencers by Donald Hamilton
  17. Hunter at Large by Thomas B. Dewey
  18. The Ice-Cold Nude by Carter Brown
  19. Death’s Long Shadow by Jay Barbette
  20. The Corpse Came Calling by Brett Halliday
  21. Joker in the Deck by Richard S. Prather
  22. Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine by Georges Simenon
  23. Dragnet, Case No. 561 by David Knight (Richard S. Prather)
  24. Alibi at Dusk by Ben Benson
  25. The Charred Witness by George Harmon Coxe
  26. Tether’s End by Margery Allingham
  27. The Black Door by Cleve F. Adams
  28. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
  29. The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson
  30. The Under Dog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
  31. Little Lulu, Volume 28: The Prize Winner and Other Stories by John Stanley
  32. Mystery in SpaceMystery in Space by Gardner Fox and others
  33. The Frightened Ladies by Ben Benson
  34. Alfred Hitchcock’s Coffin Break
  35. The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories by R. Austin Freeman
  36. Witness to Death (Saint Mystery Library #2) by Wenzel Brown and others
  37. Blackjacked and Pistol Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer by Bob Wood and others
  38. Night Train to Paris by Manning Coles
  39. Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank, Vol. 1 by Robert Kanigher and others
  40. The Running Man by Ben Benson
  41. Slay Ride by Frank Kane
  42. Our Gang Vol. 3, by Walt Kelly
  43. Death in Four Colors by Brandon Bird
  44. Footprints on a Brain: The Inspector Allhoff Stories by D.L. Champion
  45. Seven by John D. MacDonald
  46. High Adventure 98: The Crimson Mask by Norman Daniels
  47. Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon Vol. 6 by Alex Raymond
  48. The Case of the Murdered Model by Thomas B. Dewey
  49. No Footprints in the Bush by Arthur W. Upfield
  50. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
  51. The Ninth Hour by Ben Benson
  52. Blood on the Stars by Brett Halliday
  53. The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes
  54. Death Is a Stowaway by Wesley Price
  55. Milton Caniff’s Steve Canyon: 1952 by Milton Caniff
  56. Grave Danger by Frank Kane
  57. A Taste for Violence by Brett Halliday
  58. House of Terror by Evelyn Berckman
  59. Call for Michael Shayne by Brett Halliday
  60. The Brave Bad Girls by Thomas B. Dewey
  61. A Risky Way to Kill by Richard Lockridge
  62. Murder Sails at Midnight by Marian Babson
  63. Criminal Conversation by Nicolas Freeling
  64. Llana of Gathol by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  65. Pistol Passport by Eugene Cunningham
  66. Kill the Clown by Richard S. Prather
  67. Terry and the Pirates: Flying Ace Dude (Vol. 12, 1940-1941) by Milt Caniff
  68. The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Little Mermaid by Jerry West
  69. Who Killed Madcap Millicent? by Roger Fuller
  70. The Corpse Was No Bargain at All by Hampton Stone
  71. The Flying Eye by Bob McKnight/Never Forget, Never Forgive by Clayton Fox
  72. Fenner by George Harmon Coxe
  73. High Fury by Harry Whittington
  74. Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman Vol. 4
  75. Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge in Only a Poor Old Man (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 20)
  76. Walt Disney’s Donald and Gladstone (Gladstone Comic Album Series, No. 15)
  77. Walt Disney’s Donald and Daisy (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 12)
  78. Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Family (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 21)
  79. Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Adventures Voodoo Hoodoo (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 16)
  80. Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Hawaiian Hideaway (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 11)
  81. Tarzan: Jewels of Opar by Russ Manning
  82. Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 3
  83. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Vol. 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale
  84. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Vol. 2 by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale
  85. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Vol. 3 by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale
  86. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Vol. 4 by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale
  87. High Adventure 44: Black Lightning by Robert Sidney Bowen

As for completing the proverbs, here goes:

A stitch in time…[is] A Risky Way to Kill.
Don’t count your chickens…[in the] House of Terror.
A penny saved is….[a] Broken Shield.
All good things must come…[to a] Tether’s End.
When in Rome…Kill the Clown.
All that glitters is not…Blood on the Stars.
A picture is worth a…A Joker in the Deck.
When the going gets tough, the tough get…A Taste for Violence.
Two wrongs don’t make…[an] Alibi at Dusk.
The pen is mightier than….[the] Night Train to Paris.
The squeaky wheel gets…[a] Shakedown.
Hope for the best, but prepare for…Death’s Long Shadow.
Birds of a feather flock…Turn on the Heat.

Thanks Bev.

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