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Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge 2025

Medical Examiner Reading Challenge text Titles

Welcome to the Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge for 2025! Your goal as Medical Examiner is to read murder mysteries and attach toe tags to the unfortunate victim(s). Just read the General Information page and then file your death certificate.
M U R M U R S from the M O R G U E :
updated Feb 11: Bev Hankins (Indiana) works through a number of short stories to take the:
Award Garnet Gloves (50 toe tags)
Award Silver Scalpel (most titles), and
Award Bronze Body Bag (most authors)
Feb 9: Award Gold Gurney (Most toe tags) glides to Jenne B (Pennsylvania).
Award Silver Scalpel (Most titles) slides to OutsmartYourShelf (United Kingdom).
Award Bronze Body Bag (Most authors) zips (zips- get it?) over to OutsmartYourShelf (United Kingdom).

All awards are held for ten days, and if you're the only one with it after ten days, you get to keep it until someone else earns it. Got it?

Feb 9: The grabby Award Garnet Gloves are gripped by Jjean (Texas) for gathering 50 toe tags!
Feb 9: The Award Brass Bone Saw bumps over to Jenne B (Pennsylvania) for binding 300 toe tags!
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Who else examined my book? Enter Author or Title:

BUREAU of VITAL STATISTICS updated TUE FEB 11 2025 @ 8.45 pm EST convert
Medical Examiners
2 4
Authors Titles
2 3 5
Toe Tags
2 1 0 3
Autopsy
notes
Personal effects
JenneB Pennsylvania
Brass Bone Saw (300 Toe Tags) @2/9
Gold Gurney (Most Toe Tags) @2/9
9 14 390 Goodreads profile Storygraph profile Instagram
Sanacrow Tennessee
Fuchsia Forceps (200 Toe Tags) @2/7
7 9 246 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile
Vallery Louisiana 13 15 179 Goodreads profile
update pending Tracy New York 13 17 162 Goodreads profile
update pending OutsmartYourShelf The United Kingdom
Silver Scalpel (Most Titles) @2/9
Bronze Body Bag (Most Authors) @2/9
16 20 146 Goodreads profile
update pending Linda B Kentucky
Lavender Lab Coat (100 Toe Tags) @2/4
13 16 102 Goodreads profile
Goodreads librarian Colleen Illinois
Lavender Lab Coat (100 Toe Tags) @2/5
14 15 101 Goodreads profile
update pending Goodreads librarian Rick Mills Maine
Chief Medical Examiner
11 15 94 Blog Goodreads profile PaperBack Swap  Titleshelf
Scott Nickels Georgia 11 11 94 Goodreads profile
Tina Hilbert Ohio 10 10 86 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile
Medical Examiner Authors Titles Toe Tags Notes Personal effects
moved up updated Goodreads librarian Bev "Quincy" Hankins Indiana
Silver Scalpel (Most Titles) @2/11
Bronze Body Bag (Most Authors) @2/11
Garnet Gloves (50 Toe Tags) @2/11
23 23 78 tracker page My Reader's Block All Covered Up Goodreads profile Storygraph profile
Susan Jensen Arizona 12 12 77 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile
Beth M North Carolina
Garnet Gloves (50 Toe Tags) @2/8
6 6 74 tracker page Goodreads profile
batkat West Virginia 2 3 56 tracker page Goodreads profile
update pending Jjean Texas
Garnet Gloves (50 Toe Tags) @2/9
7 9 52 Goodreads profile
Erika Morris California
Garnet Gloves (50 Toe Tags) @2/5
7 7 50 Goodreads profile Instagram
Karen A New Mexico 7 9 41 Goodreads profile
Tari Hann Ohio 5 6 21 Blog Goodreads profile
SueC Utah 6 7 19 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile
Shannon The Netherlands 6 7 16 Goodreads profile Instagram
Medical Examiner Authors Titles Toe Tags Notes Personal effects
Tara Illinois 2 2 11 Goodreads profile PaperBack Swap  Titleshelf
Traci L. Illinois 2 2 8 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile
Karen Baroness Texas 0 0 0 tracker page Blog Goodreads profile Instagram
Jen McFarren Texas 0 0 0 Goodreads profile
Medical Examiner Authors Titles Toe Tags Notes Personal effects

      Ambiguous instructions and arbitrary rules are found on the General Information page.

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Moved up a position(s)
New or updated today
Update pending
Goodreads librarian
Kilotag, 1000+ toe tags
High column stat
2nd place column stat
? tracker page Tracker page
Blog
Goodreads profile Goodreads profile
Mystillery group on Goodreads
Instagram
Paperback Swap
medical examiner

Chief Medical Examiner's journal

Tuesday, February 11:

Instead of being shown into the Chief's room at the police station, Tompkins was taken first into a small shed in the yard where someone drew a sheet off something which lay on a slab and invited him to look at it. He took one horrified glance and backed away.

Manning Coles, writing in Nothing to Declare, 1960.

Honorary badges
Gold Gurney
Most Toe Tags
Silver Scalpel
Most Titles
Bronze Body Bag
Most Authors
Magenta Magnifier
500 Toe Tags
Scarlet Sponge
400 Toe Tags
Brass Bone Saw
300 Toe Tags
Fuchsia Forceps
200 Toe Tags
Lavender Lab Coat
100 Toe Tags
Garnet Gloves
50 Toe Tags


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