A successful climb up Mt. Everest was achieved with more than 100 books read off of the To Be Read pile. It looks like I messed up the numbering on my posts around #31 and then back the other way around #86, so it all evened out. Here’s the final tally of all 108:
- Donald Hamilton – The Menacers (1968)
- John D. MacDonald – The Empty Trap (1957)
- Michael Gilbert – The Empty House (1978)
- Earl Derr Biggers – The House Without a Key (1925)
- Stanley Ellin – The Key to Nicholas Street (1952)
- Edwin Lanham – Murder on My Street (1957)
- Vechel Howard – Murder on Her Mind (1959)
- Margery Allingham – The Mind Readers (1965)
- Richard Wormser – The Body Looks Familiar (1957)
- Richard S. Prather – Over Her Dear Body (1959)
- Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library (1942)
- Doris Miles Disney – Room for Murder (1955)
- Valentine Williams – The Portcullis Room (1934)
- Maxwell Grant – London Crimes/Castle of Doom
- Lionel Davidson – The Chelsea Murders (1978)
- J.S. Fletcher – The Cartwright Gardens Murder (1926)
- Bone Vol. 5 Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border
- Bone Vol. 6 Old Man’s Cave
- Leslie Ford – Road to Folly (1940)
- Bone Prequel: Rose
- Bone Vol. 7 Ghost Circles
- Bone Vol. 8 Treasure Hunters
- Bone Vol. 9 Crown of Horns
- Bone Handbook
- Samuel A. Krasney – Death Cries in the Street (1955)
- William L. Stuart – Night Cry (1948)
- Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf (2010)
- William P. McGivern – Night Extra (1957)
- Donald Hamilton – Night Walker (1954)
- Christopher Bush – The Case of the Running Man (1958)
- Helen Reilly – The Canvas Dagger (1956)
- Adam Knight – Knife at My Back (1952)
- John Godey – Killer At His Back (1948)
- Philip McCutchan – Bluebolt One (1965)
- Ellery Queen Jr – The Blue Herring Mystery (1954)
- Arthur Upfield – The Mystery of Swordfish Reef (1939)
- Edward S. Aarons – Assignment Silver Scorpion (1973)
- Fredric Davies – The Cross of Gold Affair (1968)
- John Stephen Strange – Catch the Gold Ring (1955)
- Lindsay Hardy – The Nightshade Ring (1954)
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Perennial Boarder (1941)
- The Detection Club – Crime on the Coast and No Flowers By Request (1953/1954)
- John D. MacDonald – The Beach Girls (1959)
- Agatha Christie – Third Girl (1966)
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 1, 1929-1930
- Little Lulu, Vol. 6: Letters to Santa
- Little Lulu, Vol. 7: Lulu’s Umbrella Service
- Richard Lockridge – Twice Retired (1970)
- Brett Halliday – Never Kill a Client (1962)
- Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None (1940)
- Michael Innes – One Man Show (1952)
- Frank Kane – Two to Tangle (1965)
- Little Lulu, Vol. 26: The Feud and Other Stories
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
- Brett Halliday – Fourth Down to Death (1970)
- G.T. Fleming-Roberts – Death’s Five Faces (1941)
- Brett Halliday – Six Seconds to Kill (1970)
- William P. McGivern – Seven Lies South (1960)
- John Dickson Carr – The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)
- Richard Lockridge – The Tenth Life (1977)
- Louis Trimble – Till Death Do Us Part (1959)
- John D. MacDonald – Death Trap (1957)
- Hugh Pentecost – Kingdom of Death (1960)
- Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Bar (1940)
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Death Can Be Beautiful (1972)
- John Creasey – Death in Cold Print (1961)
- Hank Janson – Cold Dead Coed (1964)
- Frank Kane – Red Hot Ice (1955)
- Edward S. Aarons – Assignment White Rajah (1970)
- Lou Cameron – Before It’s Too Late (1970)
- Agatha Christie – Murder After Hours (1946)
- Frank Kane – Time to Prey (1960)
- Helen MacInnes – Pray for a Brave Heart (1955)
- Frank Gruber – The Whispering Master (1947)
- Agatha Christie – Ordeal By Innocence (1958)
- The Spider – Pulp Doubles 11
- Lawrence Block – No Score (1970)
- Robert Wallace – Murder City (1934)
- Agatha Christie – A Holiday for Murder (1938)
- Thomas B. Dewey – My Love Is Violent (1956)
- Jerry West – The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Golden Witch (1966)
- Thomas B. Dewey – A Sad Song Singing (1963)
- Carter Brown – Blonde on a Broomstick (1966)
- George Harmon Coxe – Murder with Pictures (1935)
- Agatha Christie – The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
- Edward S. Aarons – Girl on the Run (1954)
- Basil Cooper – The Dossier of Solar Pons (1979)
- Carter Brown – The Hammer of Thor (1965)
- Lawrence Block – Make Out With Murder (1974)
- Brett Halliday – Lady Be Bad (1969)
- Edward S. Aarons – Assignment Sulu Sea (1964)
- Nick Carter – Operation Snake (1969)
- Jerry West – The Happy Hollisters and the Punch and Judy Mystery (1964)
- Nick Carter – The Katmandu Contract (1975)
- John T. Phillifent – The Corfu Affair (1967)
- P.D. James – Cover Her Face (1962)
- J.J. Marric – Gideon’s March (1962)
- Carter Brown – Had I But Groaned (1968)
- E.X. Ferrars – In At the Kill (1978)
- Edward S. Aarons – Assignment the Girl in the Gondola (1964)
- Nick Carter – The Death’s-Head Conspiracy (1973)
- J.J. Marric – Gideon’s Ride (1963)
- Agatha Christie – The Clocks (1963)
- Lawrence Sanders – Tales of the Wolf (1986)
- Maj Sjowall-Per Wahloo – Murder at the Savoy (1970)
- P.D. James – A Mind to Murder (1963)
- Margery Allingham – Mr. Campion’s Farthing (1969)
- J.J. Marric – Gideon’s Power (1969)
The second part of the wrap up is to complete the following phrases with book titles from the above list:
A stitch in time…(is) Time to Prey
Don’t count your chickens… (with) A Mind to Murder
A penny saved is…. (the) Road to Folly
All good things must come…Before It’s Too Late
When in Rome… Catch the Gold Ring
All that glitters is not… The Cross of Gold Affair
A picture is worth a…Sad Song Singing
When the going gets tough, the tough get… No Score
Two wrongs don’t make… Two to Tangle
he pen is mightier than…. (a) Knife at My Back
The squeaky wheel gets… In at the Kill
Hope for the best, but prepare for… The Nine Wrong Answers
Birds of a feather flock…And Then There Were None