Socrates x III

With so many wonderful activity themes to try, I’m generating requisite sign-up commitments in fewer posts.  That’s a trend I’d like hosts to do different, as well as diversifying a January start.  I have time for one blog and it isn’t solely for books.  This blog is where I share many passions, so the sooner we get the presently dominating theme settled;  the sooner I can share other topics with my subscribers.   Fortunately there are multiple groups by the same hostesses.  Here are three by our New Yorker, Yvonne ‘Socrates’.

 

SIX WITH ANY OF THESE:
There is an animal in the title.
There is an animal on the cover.
An animal plays a major role.
A main character is an animal.

I’ll blow this out of the water because a great deal of my literature involves cats and I love all walks and flights of life!

 
“The Foundling Fox”  Irina Korschunow  1982
“The Case Of The Cat’s Meow”  Crosby Newell Bonsall  1965
“Ghost Town Treasure”  Clyde Robert Bulla  1957
“Forward, Shakespeare!”  Jean Little  2005
“Red Fox And His Canoe”  Nathaniel Benchley  1964
“Time For The White Egret”  Natalie Savage Carlson  1978

“Jacob Two-2 Meets The Hooded Fang”  Mordecai Richler  1975
“Jacob Two-Two & The Dinosaur” Mordecei Richler  1987
“The Secret Of Shadow Ranch”  Mildred A. Wirt  1931
“Stuart Little”   E.B. White  1945
“In A Witch’s Wardrobe”  Juliet Blackwell  2012
“Defending Angels”   Mary Stanton  2008

“Mew Is For Murder”    Clea Simon  2005
“Pretty Poison”  Joyce, Jim Lavene  2005
“Fer-De-Lance”  Rex Stout  1934
“Angel’s Advocate”  Mary Stanton  2009

****  CHALLENGE CONQUERED!  ****
 

 

**  “CRUISING THE COZIES”  **

LEVEL 1          Snoop           06
LEVEL 2  Investigator    7 – 12
LEVEL 3     Super Sleuth   13 +

I detest calling a genre ‘cozy’ but the poorly-named heading applies to countless series I enjoy.  Pencil me in for level ‘Sleuth‘ again and watch for my selections.  :)

“Rest You Merry”  Charlotte MacLeod  1978
“The Luck Runs Out”  Charlotte MacLeod  1979
“Wrack And Ruin”  Charlotte MacLeod  1982
“In A Witch’s Wardrobe”  Juliet Blackwell  2012
“Homicide In Hardcover”  Kate Carlisle  2009
“If Books Could Kill”  Kate Carlisle  2010
“Night Of The Living Deed”  E.J. Copperman  2010
“Defending Angels”  Mary Stanton  2008
“Demons Are A Ghoul’s Best Friend”  Victoria Laurie  2008
“Who Do Voodoo”  Rochelle Staab  2010
“A Killer Read”  Erika Chase  2012
“Death Dines Out”  Claudia Bishop  1997
“Pretty Poison”  Joyce, Jim Lavene  2005
“Aunt Dimity’s Good Deed”  Nancy Atherton  1994
“The Ghost & Mrs. McClure”  Alice Kimberly  2004
“Room With A Clue”  Kate Kingsbury  1993

****  CHALLENGE CONQUERED!  ****

The following don’t fit categorization as ‘cozy mysteries’.  The cute title “Mew Is For Murder” is about blunter reality in dark tones.  Especially, heavy plotters Agatha and Rex created real, classic mysteries that shouldn’t be called light material.  However since the other peers in this group are generalizing all of these mysteries, it wouldn’t do for me to subtract the points.

“Mew Is For Murder”  Clea Simon  2005
“The Secret Adversary”  Agatha Christie  1922
“Murder On The Links”  Agatha Christie  1923
“Fer-De-Lance”  Rex Stout  1934
“Angel’s Advocate”  Mary Stanton  2009

 

Level 1    Complete 1 series.
Level 2    Complete 2 series.
Level 3    Complete 3+ series

This is the first time I’m doing this one but I’ve blogged about how there are more series than standalone works nowadays.  I’m enchanted with enough of them to topple this challenge tenfold.  I’ll take level 3.

“Dancing Feathers”  Christel Kleitsch  1985
“A Time To Be Brave”  Christel Kleitsch  1985
“Mystery At Black Rock Island”  Robert Sutherland  1983
“The Ghost Of Ramshaw Castle”  Robert Sutherland  1989
“The Loon Lake Murders”  Robert Sutherland  1987
“Death Island”  Robert Sutherland  1994
“If Two Are Dead”  Robert Sutherland  1997
“In A Witch’s Wardrobe”  Juliet Blackwell  2012

“Night Of The Living Deed”  E.J. Copperman  2010
“Defending Angels”  Mary Stanton  2008
“Homicide In Hardcover”  Kate Carlisle  2009
“If Books Could Kill”  Kate Carlisle  2010
“Demons Are A Ghoul’s Best Friend”  Victoria Laurie  2008
“Aunt Dimity’s Good Deed”  Nancy Atherton  1994

“The Ghost & Mrs. McClure”  Alice Kimberly  2004
“Pretty Poison”  Joyce, Jim Lavene  2005
“Room With A Clue”  Kate Kingsbury  1993
“Mew Is For Murder”  Clea Simon  2005
“Angel’s Advocate”  Mary Stanton  2009