2022 Medical Examiner's Reading Challenge
Bev "Quincy" Hankins, M.E. • Indiana

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Author (links to bibliography) Title (links to review) Series Asph Drown Fall Fire Hit Pois Shot Stab Other Toe Tags
Margery Allingham Take Two at Bedtime (aka Deadly Duo) -   2       2       4
K Abdul-Jabbar & A Waterhouse Mycroft Holmes Mycroft & Sherlock #1       2 1 1   5   9
Paul Allor Clue -     2   3   1 4   10
Delano Ames Murder Begins at Home Jane & Dagobert Brown #2     1     1   1   3
Betsy Allen (Betty Cavanna) The Green Island Mystery Connie Blair #5                 1 1
Steve Allen The Murder Game Steve Allen Mysteries #6 1 1 1   1 1     3 8
Robert Arthur The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot Three Investigators #2                 1 1
Robert Arthur The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy Three Investigators #3         2 1     3
Robert Arthur The Mystery of the Talking Skull Three Investigators #11                 2 2
George Bagby (Aaron Marc Stein) Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand Inspector Schmidt #23 1         1       2
George Barton The Green Pocketbook - 1       1     2
George Barton The Mystery of the Gold Seal -           2     1 3
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) Calamity at Harwood Chief Inspector Littlejohn #7 3   1   1   2   2 9
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) He'd Rather Be Dead Chief Inspector Littlejohn #8 1 1     1 2   1   6
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) The Case of the Famished Parson Chief Insp. Littlejohn #15 2       1   1     4
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) Death Treads Softly Chief Insp. Littlejohn #26 1       3   1 5
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) Surfeit of Suspects Chief Insp. Littlejohn #41 1     3     3 7
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) Death Stops the Frolic - 1         1 1 3
Andrew Benedict Pool Party -   2               2
Marlowe Benn Relative Fortunes Julia Kydd #1 1             1   2
E. C. Bentley Greedy Night -           1       1
Nicholas Blake
(Cecil Day-Lewis)
End of Chapter Nigel Strangeways #12       1   1 1 1 4
Nicholas Blake
(Cecil Day-Lewis)
The Widow's Cruise Nigel Strangeways #13 1 1           2
Nicholas Blake
(Cecil Day-Lewis)
The Worm of Death Nigel Strangeways #14 1             1 2 4
Wyatt Blassingame John Smith Hears Death Walking - 2         4 7 1   14
Lawrence G. Blochman Death Walks in Marble Halls - 1     1 1   3
Lawrence G. Blochman Midnight Sailing - 1 1     1   1 1   5
Lawrence Block Death Wish -         1   1     2
Albert Borowitz This Club Frowns on Murder Paul & Alice Prye #2         2 1 1     4
Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin) Evan's Gate Constable Evans #8   1 1             2
Ray Bradbury To the Future -         1         1
John G. Brandon A Scream in Soho Patrick Aloysius McCarthy #29             4   1 5
Joseph Payne Brennan Levitation -                 1 1
Benedict Brown Murder at the Spring Ball Lord Edgington #1           2 1     3
Frederic Brown Don't Look Behind You -             1     1
Christopher Bush The Case of the Sapphire Brooch Ludovic Travers #54   1       2 1   2 6
Gwendoline Butler A Nameless Coffin Inspector Coffin #7                   5
Barbee Oliver Carleton The Witches' Bridge - 1       1       3 5
John Dickson Carr The House in Goblin Wood -               1   1
John Dickson Carr A Razor in Fleet Street -               1   1
Helen Chappell Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death Sam & Hollis #1       1   1 2     4
Erika Chase (Linda Wiken) Read & Buried Ashton Corners Book Club #2             1     1
Agatha Christie The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1 Marple / 5 Poirot 1   1 2 1 5
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None 2 3     4 6 3 1 3 21
Agatha Christie Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot #20         1 1   2
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot's Christmas Hercule Poirot #21         1   1
Agatha Christie Sad Cypress Hercule Poirot #22         2   2
Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs Hercule Poirot #22         1 1 2
Agatha Christie The Clocks Hercule Poirot #37 1             2   3
Agatha Christie N or M? Tommy & Tuppence #3       1   3   4
Agatha Christie Death Comes as the End - 1 1 2     4       7
Agatha Christie Easy to Kill (aka Murder Is Easy) Supt. Battle #4 1 1   2 2     6
Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution 1 1   2 2 3 2 5 16
Agatha Christie The Pale Horse   1 3 4
Douglas Clark Sweet Poison Masters & Green #4           1 1   3 5
Clyde B. Clason Murder Goes Minoan T L Westborough #7     2   2         4
Joseph Commings Ghost in the Gallery - 1       1         2
Basil Copper The Curse of the Fleers - 1   2   2     3 8
Basil Copper The Janissaries of Emillion -               1   1
Frances Crane The Golden Box - 1 1       1 1   2 6
John Creasey Parcels for Inspector West Inspector West #19         5         5
Michael Dahl The Ruby Raven Finnegan Zwake #3     1   1   1 1   4
Glyn Daniel Welcome Death Sir Richard Cherrington #2     1     2   1 2 6
Evelyn David (M Borden & R Dossett) Murder Off the Books Sullivan Investigations #1             3     3
Norbert Davis Dead Little Rich Girl (aka The Mouse in the Mountain) Doan & Carstairs #1 1       2   3 2   8
William L. DeAndrea The Adventure of the Christmas Tree -     2       2
Thomas B. Dewey Portrait of a Dead Heiress Mac #11 or #12   1           1   2
Peter Dickinson The Old English Peep Show Jimmy Pibble #2 1           1     2
Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) The Other Hangman - 1       1         2
Mary Mapes Dodge Hans Brinker -           1     1 2
Michael J. Dodge Star Trek: Voyage to Adventure Which Way Books #15 1       1   4   5 11
Hildegarde Dolson To Spite Her Face Lucy Ramsdale/Insp. McDougal #1 1         1       2
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Three Garridebs -             1     1
Charles J. Dutton Streaked with Crimson - 3           1     4
Martin Edwards The Coffin Trail Lake District Mys. #1 1 1 3   1   1 1 1 9
E. X. Ferrars (Morna Brown) Experiment with Death - 1             1   2
Charles Finch The Woman in the Water Charles Lenox #0.1 1       1   1   3
Charles Finch An Old Betrayal Charles Lenox #7 1   1       2   1 5
Charles Finch The Laws of Murder Charles Lenox #8   1     1 2   5
Charles Finch Home by Nightfall Charles Lenox #9       1 1 2 4
Charles Finch The Inheritance Charles Lenox #10     1 1 2 4
Charles Finch An Extravagant Death Charles Lenox #11     1 1 2
Gerald Findler The House of Screams -           1     1 2
Bruno Fischer The Dog Died First -         1   1     2
J. S. Fletcher The Secret of the Barbican -                 1 1
Lucy Foley The Guest List -   1       1 1   1 4
Richard Forrest The Death at Yew Corner Lyon & Bea Wentworth #5 4         1 1   1 7
Jacques Futrelle Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories -         1 1   1 1 4
Jacques Futrelle An Absence of Air - 3         3
John Gale Spare Time for Murder -   1   1 1   3   1 7
Matthew Gant The Uses of Intelligence -         1         1
Ashley Gardner (Jennifer Ashley) The Hanover Square Affair -         1     1 4 6
Erle Stanley Gardner The Case of the Gilded Lily Perry Mason #50             1     1
David Garth Challenge for Three -                 3 3
Michael Gilbert The Amateur -       1           1
Michael Gilbert The Uninvited -       1   1     2
Joe Gores South of Market -               4   4
Christine Noble Govan Miss Winters & the Wind -     1             1
Anna Katherine Green Missing Page Thirteen -               2   2
John Greenwood (John Buxton Hilton) What, Me, Mr. Mosley? Mr. Mosley #6                 1 1
Kerry Greenwood Flying Too High Phryne Fisher #2         1 1   2
Kerry Greenwood Raisins and Almonds Phryne Fisher #9           1   1   2
Kerry Greenwood The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions Phryne Fisher #22 1         9   1 11
Martha Grimes Fadeaway Girl Emma Graham #4   1         2 1   4
Jean Hager The Last Noel Iris House B&B #4               1 3 4
Christopher Hale (Frances M R Stevens) Midsummer Nightmare -         1 1   1   3
Janice Hallett The Twyford Code -         2   2   2 6
C. S. Harris (Candice Proctor) When Blood Lies Sebastian St. Cyr #17 2 1     2   2 5 1 13
Cora Harrison The Body in the Fog London Murder Mysteries #5 1       1   1     3
Georgette Heyer Cousin Kate - 1 1     1         3
Reginald Hill The Italian Sherlock Holmes -         2 2
Susan Hill The Mist in the Mirror - 1               4 5
Edward D. Hoch The Oblong Room -               1   1
Edward D. Hoch The Impossible Murder - 1           1   2
W. Hope Hodgson Bullion! -           2       2
Genevieve Holden (Genevive Long Pou) Killer Loose! -               5   5
James Holding The Queen's Jewel -           1       1
Adimchinma Ibe Treachery in the Yard Tammy Peterside #1         1   7 1   9
P. D. James Death Comes to Pemberley - 2       2   1     5
Sébastien Japrisot The 10:30 from Marseille (aka The Sleeping Car Murders/Compartiment Tuers) - 1             6   7
Stanley Jopkins, Jr. (Blythe Morley) The Parchment Key -   1       1     2 4
Marvin Kaye Bullets for Macbeth Hilary Quayle #3             1 2   3
Carolyn Keene (various) The Triple Hoax -               1
Carolyn Keene (various) Nancy Drew Ghost Stories -             1   2 3
Carolyn Keene (various) The Clue in the Crumbling Wall Nancy Drew #22               2 2
Carolyn Keene (various) The Scarlet Slipper Mystery Nancy Drew #32               2 2
Carolyn Keene (various) The Witch Tree Symbol Nancy Drew #33               2 2
Carolyn Keene (various) The Secret of the Golden Pavilion Nancy Drew #36               1 1
Carolyn Keene (various) The Bluebeard Room Nancy Drew #77       1       1
Carolyn Keene (various) The Ghost in the Gallery Dana Girls #17             1 1
Susan Kelly And Soon I'll Come to Kill You Liz Connors #5             2 2 1 5
Baynard Kendrick The Murderer Who Wanted More Captain Duncan Maclain #1             1 1 1 3
Michael Kenyon Kill the Butler! Inspector Peckover #6 1   1   3         5
Gerald Kersh River of Riches -                 1 1
Adam Knight (Lawrence Lariar) The Sunburned Corpse Steve Conacher #4 1       2   1     4
Frederic Arnold Kummer Pig's Feet -             1     1
Harry Lang The Corpse on the Hearth -           1 5     6
Emma Lathen
(MJ Latis & M Henissa)
The Longer the Thread John Putnam Thatcher #13             1 1   2
Maurice LeBlanc On the Top of the Tower -             2     2
Gillian Linscott A Scandal in Winter -     1         1
George Locke A Nineteenth Century Debacle -     1             1
Richard Lockridge A Plate of Red Herrings Paul Lane #7         1 1 2
Richard Lockridge Murder for Art's Sake Nathan Shapiro #4           1   1
Richard Lockridge Murder Roundabout Captain Heimrich #17           1   1 2
Richard Lockridge With Option to Die Captain Heimrich #18         1 1   2
Richard Lockridge Inspector's Holiday Captain Heimrich #20 1 1         1 3
Richard Lockridge Not I, Said the Sparrow Captain Heimrich #21     1 1   1 3
Richard Lockridge Death in a Sunny Place -         1   2 3
Frances & Richard Lockridge The Dishonest Murderer Mr. & Mrs. North #13           1 1     2
Frances & Richard Lockridge Death of an Angel Mr. & Mrs. North #20           1 2     3
Frances & Richard Lockridge Voyage into Violence Mr. & Mrs. North #21           1   1
Frances & Richard Lockridge The Long Skeleton Mr. & Mrs. North #22 1       1 1   3
Frances & Richard Lockridge And Left for Dead Paul Lane #3         1 1 1   3
Frances & Richard Lockridge The Golden Man -           2   2 4
E. C. R. Lorac (Edith C. Rivett) Murder by Matchlight Robert MacDonald #26         2         2
Marie Belloc Lowndes The Lodger -               2   2
John Lutz It's a Dog's Life -             1     1
Helen McCloy Chinoiserie         1   1
Helen McCloy The Man in the Moonlight Dr. Basil Willing #2   1         2   1 4
Adam McOmber The Ghost Finders - 1 1         2 2 4 10
John D. MacDonald The Legend of John Lee -   2               2
Ross MacDonald (Kenneth Millar) The Singing Pigeon -             3     3
Vonda N. McIntyre The Entropy Effect ST: Original Series #2           2 2     4
Henning Mankell The Man from Beijing - 2 2     2   4 23 6 39
Ngaio Marsh Overture to Death Inspector Alleyn #8             1     1
Ngaio Marsh Clutch of Constables Inspector Alleyn #25 3               3
Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath The Price of the Phoenix -             2     2
F. Van Wyck Mason The Castle Island Case - 1           1 1   3
F. Van Wyck Mason Zanzibar Intrigue Hugh North #25 =         2 2 2 6
Harold Q. Masur Murder Matinee -             1 1   2
Julian May Dune Roller -       1           1
Tony Medawar (ed) Bodies from the Library 2 - 2   1     1 6 5 3 18
A. A. Milne Four Days' Wonder -         1       1 2
Gwen Moffat The Adventure in Border Country -     1         1
Max Murray The Queen & the Corpse -   2 1   1   2     6
Frederick Nebel Six Deadly Dames -   1       1 12 1   15
Robert Nordan Death Beneath the Christmas Tree Mavis Lashley #2         1   2   3 6
D. B. Olsen (Dolores Hitchens) The Cat Saw Murder Miss Rachel Murdock #1     1   1     1 1 4
Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Vestibule Faith Fairchild #4   1       1       2
Kate Parker The Vanishing Thief Victorian Bookshop #1 1 1   3   3   1   9
Kate Parker The Counterfeit Lady 2   1     3
Barbara Paul The Sleuth of Christmas Past -               1 1
Hugh Pentecost (Judson Philips) Lieutenant Pascal's Tastes in Homicides Lt. Pascal #1     2 2 1   1 1   7
Barry Perowne [Philip Atkey] The Blind Spot -               2   2
Anne Perry The Watch Night Bell -             1     1
Arthur Phillips The Egyptologist -         1 1     2 4
Stefanie Pintoff Secret of the White Rose Simon Ziele #3     1 1     2 1 1 6
Mary Plum Susanna, Don't You Cry! -         1   1   1 3
Zelda Popkin Dead Man's Gift Mary Carner #4             1   1 2
Arthur Porges Coffee Break -           1       1
Melville Davisson Post A Twilight Adventure -             1     1
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Reliquary Pendergast #2               11 1 12
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Still Life with Crows Pendergast #4 4   2   1   2 2 11
J. B. Priestley The Old Dark House / Benighted -     2 1         2 5
Bill Pronzini Proof of Guilt -             1   1 2
Leonard Pruyn Dinner at Garibaldi's -                 1 1
E. R. Punshon Death Among the Sunbathers Bobby Owens #2             1     1
E. R. Punshon Crossword Mystery Bobby Owens #3   1     1   2 1 5
Ellery Queen (Dannay & Lee) The King Is Dead -             1   4 5
Ellery Queen, Jr. (house pseudonym) The White Elephant Mystery Ellery Queen, Jr. #6                 2 2
Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz) Garden of Lies -   2 1     2 2 2   9
E. & M. A. Radford Death & the Professor - 1         6 1 1 1 10
Robert J. Randisi Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die Rat Pack Mysteries #2         2   3     5
Arthur J. Rees The Finger of Death -           1   1 2
Arthur J. Rees The Missing Passenger's Trunk -   1             1 2
Ruth Rendell No More Dying Then - 1 1               2
Craig Rice (Georgiana Craig) Hard Sell -     1   2   1     4
Howard Rigsby Dead Man's Story -             1     1
Jack Ritchie (John Reitci) A Taste for Murder -             1 2   3
H. W. Roden You Only Hang Once - 1           3     4
Joel Townsley Rogers The Hanging Rope -     1   1     1   3
Sax Rohmer (Arthur Ward) The White Hat -     1             1
Sax Rohmer (Arthur Ward) The Death of Cyrus Pettigrew -         2         2
Sara Rosett Murder in Black Tie High Society Lady Det. #4 1       1   1   2 5
Kate Ross Cut to the Quick Julian Kestrel #1               2 2 4
Kate Ross A Broken Vessel Julian Kestrel #2 2   1     1   3 7
Kate Ross Whom the Gods Love Julian Kestrel #3     2   1 2 5
Kate Ross The Devil in Music Julian Kestrel #4 1     1 1 1 4
Henry C. Rowland Three Liars -     1             1
William Sambrot That Touch of Genius -     1             1
Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? Lord Peter Wimsey #1         1       1 2
Dorothy L. Sayers Clouds of Witness Lord Peter Wimsey #2         1   1   2
Dorothy L. Sayers Strong Poison Lord Peter Wimsey #6         1   1
Dorothy L. Sayers The Five Red Herrings Lord Peter Wimsey #7         1     1
Dorothy L. Sayers Have His Carcase Lord Peter Wimsey #8             1 1
Dorothy L. Sayers Murder Must Advertise Lord Peter Wimsey #10         3     1 1 5
Dorothy L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon Lord Peter Wimsey #11 1       1     2
Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night Lord Peter Wimsey #12           1 1
Dorothy L. Sayers The Man with the Copper Fingers -         2 2
Dorothy L. Sayers Striding Folly Lord Peter Wimsey (shorts) 1       1
Dorothy L. Sayers / Jill Walsh Thrones, Dominations Lord Peter / H Vane #1 3 1     4
Roger Scarlett (D Blair & E Page) Cat's Paw -             2     2
Elizabeth Seibert The Abrus Necklace Mystery -                 2 2
Dash Shaw Clue: Candlestick -       1 3 1 1 1   7
Georges Simenon Lock 14 Inspector Maigret #2 2   1     1       4
Susannah Stacey (J Staynes & M Storey) Goodbye, Nanny Gray Supt. Robert Bone #1         1 1     1 3
Vincent Starrett The Eleventh Juror         1   1
Vincent Starrett Murder on "B" Deck Walter Ghost #1 1 1             1 3
Stewart Sterling (Prentice Winchell) Down Among the Dead Men -         1   1 1   3
Rex Stout The Black Mountain Nero Wolfe #24             1     1
Lee Strauss Murder at St. George's Church Ginger Gold #6         2         2
Peter Swanson Eight Perfect Murders - 1   1 1 3 2 5   3 16
Hake Talbot The Other Side -             1     1
Phoebe Atwood Taylor Deathblow Hill Asey Mayo #6 2 1             2 5
Lee Thayer (Emma Lee Thayer) X Marks the Spot -         1   1 1   3
Will Thomas The Black Hand Barker & Llewelyn #5             7 2   9
Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Goldstone) Justice Magnifique -         1         1
Michael Underwood (John M Evelyn) The Uninvited Corpse - 1           1   2 4
Arthur W. Upfield Murder Down Under (apa Mr. Jelly's Business) Insp. Bonaparte #4           1 2     3
R. A. J. Walling The Corpse with the Grimy Glove Philip Tolefree #15 1 1         2   1 5
Jeffrey Wallman Now You See Her - 1                 1
Jill Paton Walsh The Attenbury Emeralds LP Wimsey/H Vane #3 3   1 1 1       1 7
Jill Paton Walsh The Bad Quarto Imogen Quy #4   1       3 4
Daisy Waugh In the Crypt with a Candlestick -     1   1 1     1 4
Henry Kitchell Webster The Corbin Necklace -                 2 2
David Westheimer Going Public -   1 1 1 1   1   2 7
Carolyn Wheat The Adventure of the Angel's Trumpet -       1   1
Victor L. Whitechurch Murder at the Pageant -         1       1 2
Victor L. Whitechurch Murder at the College -             1   2 3
Phyllis A. Whitney Seven Tears for Apollo -     1   1       1 3
Henry Smith Williams The Subconscious Witness -         1         1
J. N. Williamson The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed -             1 1
Roy Winsor Always Lock Your Bedroom Door Dr. Cobb #2         1 2       3
Valerie Wolzien All Hallows' Evil Susan Henshaw #4               2   2
L. R. Wright The Suspect Karl Alberg #1         1       3 4
George Worthing Yates The Body That Wasn't Uncle -           1 2   1 4
Seishi Yokomizo The Inugami Curse - 2         2   2 4 10
191 authors 267 books                     1028 toe tags

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pseudonyms are set in italics.

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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