2022 Medical Examiner's Reading Challenge Rick Mills, Chief Medical Examiner • Maine

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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	More Work for the Undertaker	-										5
Margery Allingham	The White Cottage Mystery	-			1				2			3
Hugh Austin	Murder in Triplicate	-								3		3
Robert Barr	Mystery of the 500 Diamonds	-		1	2							3
Robert Barr	The Siamese Twin of a Bomb Thrower	-										3
Robert Barr	The Ghost with the Club-foot	-										3
Robert Barr	The Liberation of Wyoming Ed	-										2
Robert Barr	An Alpine Divorce	-										1
Robert Barr	Which Was the Murderer?	-										2
Robert Barr	A Dynamite Explosion	-										2
Robert Barr	An Electrical Slip	-										2
Ernest Bramah	The Knight's Cross Signal Problem	Max Carrados							1			1
Ernest Bramah	The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms	Max Carrados							1			1
Ernest Bramah	The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage	Max Carrados						1				1
Ernest Bramah	The Tilling Shaw Mystery	Max Carrados							1			1
Miles Burton (John Rhode)	Death in the Tunnel	-							1		2	3
Miles Burton (John Rhode)	The Hardway Diamonds Mystery	-	1	1						1	1	4
John Dickson Carr	The Corpse in the Wax Works	Henri Bencolin #4							1	3	1	5
John Dickson Carr	The Mad Hatter Mystery	Dr. Gideon Fell #2							3			3
Leslie Charteris	The Saint at Large	-							2			2
Leslie Charteris	The Saint Bids Diamonds	-							4	1	1	6
Leslie Charteris	The Saint Steps In	-										3
Leslie Charteris	The Saint vs. Scotland Yard	-	1					1	2	1		5
Agatha Christie	The Moving Finger	Miss Marple					1	1				2
Agatha Christie	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	Hercule Poirot #1						1				1
Agatha Christie	The Mystery of the Blue Train	Hercule Poirot #5										1
Agatha Christie	Appointment with Death	Hercule Poirot #19										2
Agatha Christie	After the Funeral	Hercule Poirot #29										2
Manning Coles	Alias Uncle Hugo	Tommy Hambledon #14	1						5	1		7
Manning Coles	Dangerous by Nature	Tommy Hambledon #12										3
Manning Coles	Nothing to Declare	Tommy Hambledon SS										3
Crime Club	Death Blew Out the Match	Radio dramatization #1						1	1			2
Crime Club	Fear Came First	Radio dramatization #16					1				1	2
Crime Club	Silent Witnesses	Radio dramatization #18							1			1
Crime Club	The Grey Mist Murders	Radio dramatization #20					1					1
Crime Club	Topaz Flower	Radio dramatization #22							1	1		2
Crime Club	Epitath for Lydia	Radio dramatization #23										1
Crime Club	Death at 7:10	Radio dramatization #32						1				1
Crime Club	Death Swims at Midnight	Radio dramatization #40		1					2			3
Crime Club	Sentence of Death	Radio dramatization #46							1		1	2
Frederick C. Davis	Deep Lay the Dead	-							1		1	2
Guy de Maupassant	The Horla	-									1	1
Amber Dean	Dead Man's Float	-					2					2
Dorothy Cameron Disney	The Strawstack Murders	-	1					1	1		1	4
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	The Adventure of the Dancing Men	-							1			1
Mignon G. Eberhart	Dead Yesterday	Sarah Keate							1		1	2
Mignon G. Eberhart	Never Look Back	-										2
Mignon G. Eberhart	The Night Watch Mystery	Sarah Keate							1			1
Mignon G. Eberhart	Wolf in Man's Clothing	Sarah Keate #6						1		1		2
Mignon G. Eberhart	The Wagstaff Pearls	-			1							1
Mignon G. Eberhart	The White Cockatoo	-						2	1			3
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Stuttering Bishop	Perry Mason #9							1		1	2
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Lame Canary	Perry Mason #11							1		1	2
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Golddigger's Purse	Perry Mason #26							1			1
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Borrowed Brunette	Perry Mason #28							1			1
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Green-eyed Sister	Perry Mason #42										3
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Case of the Crimson Kiss	Perry Mason #84						1				1
Erle Stanley Gardner	In Round Figures	Lester Leith									1	1
Erle Stanley Gardner	Bird in the Hand	Lester Leith							1	1		2
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Exact Opposite	Lester Leith								1		1
Erle Stanley Gardner	At Arm's Length	short story	1						2			3
Erle Stanley Gardner	Fingers of Fong	short story	2									2
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Valley of Little Fears	short story							1			1
George Goodchild	Jack O'Lantern	Mystery League #4										10
Sue Grafton	A is for Alibi	Kinsey Millhone #1					1	2	2		1	6
Sue Grafton	B is for Burglar	Kinsey Millhone #2					1		1		2	4
Sue Grafton	C is for Corpse	Kinsey Millhone #3	1				1		1		1	4
Sue Grafton	D is for Deadbeat	Kinsey Millhone #4		1	1				1			3
Sue Grafton	E is for Evidence	Kinsey Millhone #5	2			2						4
Sue Grafton	F is for Fugitive	Kinsey Millhone #6	1				1		1		1	4
Anna Katherine Green	That Affair Next Door	Amelia Butterworth #1								1		1
Anna Katherine Green	Lost Man's Lane	Amelia Butterworth #2			1						1	2
Martha Grimes	The Deer Leap	Richard Jury #6							2	1	3	6
Martha Grimes	I Am The Only Running Footman	Richard Jury #8	2						1		1	4
Martha Grimes	The Five Bells and Bladebone	Richard Jury #9								3		3
Martha Grimes	The Old Silent	Richard Jury #10							2		1	3
Martha Grimes	The Old Contemptibles	Richard Jury #11										5
Martha Grimes	The Horse You Came In On	Richard Jury #12										6
John Hawk	The House of Sudden Sleep	Mystery League #3										4
Sydney Horler	The Curse of Doone	Mystery League #2										6
Inner Sanctum	Death is a Double Crosser (mp3)	-	1									1
Inner Sanctum	The Man Who Couldn't Die (mp3)	-	1									1
Don James	Behind Murder's Eight-Ball	-					1		1			2
Vera Kelsey	Whisper Murder!	-					1	2			1	4
Frances & Richard Lockridge	Death on the Aisle	-		1					1	1		3
Frances & Richard Lockridge	A Client is Canceled	Capt. Heimrich #4							2			2
Frances & Richard Lockridge	With One Stone	Capt. Heimrich #14					2		1			3
Richard Lockridge	Murder Roundabout	Capt. Heimrich #18							1			1
Richard Lockridge	Not I, Said the Sparrow	Capt. Heimrich #21			1				1		1	3
Richard Lockridge	Death in a Sunny Place	-					1				2	3
Philip MacDonald	The Crime Conductor	-					2					2
Helen McCloy	The Singing Diamonds	-					2				4	6
Ngaio Marsh	Colour Scheme	Insp. Roderick Alleyn #12									1	1
E. Phillips Oppenheim	The Double Traitor	-							2			2
Frank L. Packard	The Big Shot	-				5			3		1	9
Frank L. Packard	Tiger Claws	-			1		1	1	4	4		11
Frank L. Packard	The Night Operator	-										7
Herman Petersen	The D.A.'s Daughter	-		1			1				1	3
Edgar Allan Poe	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	C. Auguste Dupin #1	1							1		2
Edgar Allan Poe	The Mystery of Marie Rogêt	C. Auguste Dupin #2	1					1				2
Edgar Allan Poe	The Tell-Tale Heart	-					1					1
Milton Propper	The Ticker-Tape Murder	Tommy Rankin										6
Ellery Queen (Dannay & Lee)	The Four of Hearts	Ellery Queen			1			2			2	5
Ellery Queen (Dannay & Lee)	Queen's Full	Ellery Queen	1		1		2		1	2	1	8
Victor K. Ray	Three Men and a Corpse	-							1			1
Helen Reilly	Murder on Angler's Island			1					1		1	3
Dorothy L. Sayers	The Image in the Mirror	Lord Peter Wimsey	1									1
Mabel Seeley	Eleven Came Back	-		1	1				3			5
Rex Stout	Black Orchids	Nero Wolfe #9						1	1			2
Rex Stout	Cordially Invited to Meet Death	Nero Wolfe #9									1	1
Seldon Truss	The Hunterstone Outrage	Mystery League #20				1		1				2
Edgar Wallace	The Hand of Power	Mystery League #1										9
Edgar Wallace	The Day of Uniting	Mystery League #7							3			3
R.A.J. Walling	A Corpse by Any Other Name	Philip Tolefree		1					2			3
Carolyn Wells	The Sixth Commandment	-						2				2
Carolyn Wells	The Tannahill Tangle	Fleming Stone #25							2			2
Carolyn Wells	The Visiting Villain	Fleming Stone #38										1
Carolyn Wells	The Room With the Tassels	Pennington Wise #1						4			1	5
Carolyn Wells	Wheels Within Wheels	Pennington Wise #8										4
Valentine Williams	The Man With the Clubfoot	Clubfoot #1	1			1	1		3			6
Valentine Williams	The Crouching Beast	Clubfoot #4							3			3
Edward Woodward	The House of Terror	Mystery League ~#9						1	1			2
Lassiter Wren	Masterstrokes of Crime Detection	-	1			1	2	1	6	3	11	25
48 authors	123 books											385 toe tags

Pseudonyms are set in italics.

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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