2019 Medical Examiner's Reading Challenge
Rick Mills, M.E.

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Author (links to bio) Title (links to review) Asph Drown Fall Fire Hit Pois Shot Stab Other Toe Tags
Alice Campbell Juggernaut               3
John Dickson Carr The Burning Court           3     4
John Dickson Carr The House at Satan's Elbow                 2
John Dickson Carr The Lost Gallows             5
John Dickson Carr The Men Who Explained Miracles             4
Leslie Charteris The Last Hero                 2
Lincoln Child The Forgotten Room               2
Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders             4
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None 2 3   3 5 2 1 3 21
Agatha Christie Death in the Air                 2
Agatha Christie The Hollow               2
Agatha Christie A Murder Is Announced           4
Agatha Christie There Is A Tide       4     7
Stedman Coles Death Never Doubles (mp3 audio)             3
Joseph Commings The X Street Murders                 2
Frederick C. Davis Deep Lay the Dead               2
Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) The White Priory Murders             3
Edward Doherty The Broadway Murders           4
Mignon Eberhart El Rancho Rio             4
Mignon Eberhart Fair Warning                 2
Mignon Eberhart Five Passengers from Lisbon             4
Mignon Eberhart The Man Next Door                 2
Mignon Eberhart Speak No Evil             4
Mignon Eberhart Three Days for Emeralds                 1
A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Bedrooms Have Windows             3     3
A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Bachelors Get Lonely                 1
A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Bats Fly at Dusk               2
A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Give 'Em the Ax                 1
A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) Kept Women Can't Quit                 1
J. Jefferson Farjeon Mystery in White           4
Hulbert Footner The Under Dogs                 1
Erle Stanley Gardner Case of the Negligent Nymph               2
Sydney Horler The Black Heart                 1
William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) Phantom Lady   2         5
Rufus King The Case of the Dowager's Etchings                 1
Rufus King Holiday Homicide             4
Rufus King Murder in the Willett Family             4
Rufus King Museum Piece No. 13             4
Rufus King The Steps to Murder 3 2 2 4   2 16
Kathleen Moore Knight Birds of Ill Omen             3
Kathleen Moore Knight Death Blew Out the Match (listen online)                 2
Kathleen Moore Knight Footbridge to Death               2
Kathleen Moore Knight Stream Sinister             4
Kathleen Moore Knight The Tainted Token               3
Kathleen Moore Knight The Wheel That Turned           5
E. Phillips Oppenheim The Man Without Nerves             4     4
Herman Petersen The D.A.'s Daughter             3
Herman Petersen Murder R.F.D.             4
Ellery Queen Face to Face             1 1   2
Ellery Queen The Finishing Stroke             5
Ellery Queen The House of Brass             3
Ellery Queen The Origin of Evil                 2
Ellery Queen The Perfect Crime                 1
Ellery Queen The Roman Hat Mystery                 1
Mary Roberts Rinehart The Bat               3
Mary Roberts Rinehart The Case of Jennie Brice                 1
Mary Roberts Rinehart Episode of the Wandering Knife       7
Mary Roberts Rinehart Miss Pinkerton             3
Mary Roberts Rinehart The Window at the White Cat           3     4
Rex Stout And Be a Villain               3
Rex Stout Before Midnight               2
Rex Stout Might As Well Be Dead             4
Rex Stout Too Many Clients             3     3
Rex Stout Trouble in Triplicate
3 novellas
        6     9
Rex Stout Where There's a Will               2
Lawrence Treat Q As In Quicksand             4
Carolyn Wells The Come Back                 1
Carolyn Wells Deep Lake Mystery                 1
Carolyn Wells Face Cards                 2
Carolyn Wells Feathers Left Around                 2
Carolyn Wells In The Onyx Lobby                 1
Carolyn Wells Vicky Van                 1
Valentine Williams The Clue of the Rising Moon               3
Valentine Williams The Eye in Attendance           3     4
Valentine Williams The Fox Prowls   4     3 11
Valentine Williams The Mysterious Miss Morrisot             4     4
Valentine Williams The Portcullis Room               3
Valentine Williams Clubfoot the Avenger     3   10
27 unique authors 79 books                   275

Key:
Asph = asphyxiation, hanging, strangling, air deprivation
Drown = drowning
Fall = from height, or pushed
Fire = fire, bomb, or explosion
Hit = by fists, object, or vehicle
Pois = poison, poison gas, poison dart, drugs, snake venom, carbon monoxide
Shot = by gun, arrow, other projectile
Stab = by knife, other sharp object
Other = natural causes, electrocution, execution, other

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