2026 Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge Bev "Quincy" Hankins, M.E. • Indiana

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91 Authors	101 Titles links to review	Series	350 Toe Tags
Anthony Abbot (Fulton Ourlser)	About the Perfect Crime of Mr. Digberry		1
Charlotte Armstrong	The Splintered Monday		1
W.A. Barber & R.F. Schabelitz	Murder Enters the Picture	Kit Storm #4	5
Sara Dobie Bauer	The Wendigo Goes Home		1
George Bellairs (Harold Blundell)	The Body in the Dumb River	Chief Inspector Littlejohn #35	4
Anthony Berkeley [Cox]	The Avenging Chance & Other Mysteries...	Roger Sheringham	8
Ambrose Bierce	The Death of Halpin Frayser		2
Ambrose Bierce	The Moonlit Road		1
Steen Steensen Blicher	The Rector of Veilbye		3
Dorothy Bowers	Shadows Before	Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe #2	11
Christopher Bush	The Plumley Inheritance	Ludovic Travers #1	5
Barbara Callahan	Lavender Lady		1
Victor Canning	The Botany Pattern		3
Vera Caspary	Sugar & Spice		2
G.K. Chesterton	Dr. Hyde, Detective & the White Pillars Murder		1
Charles B. Child	The Devil Is a Gentleman		1
Agatha Christie	A Pocket Full of Rye	Miss Marple #6	5
Agatha Christie	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Hercule Poirot #4	3
Agatha Christie	Dead Man's Mirror	Hercule Poirot #16	7
Agatha Christie	Hercule Poirot & the Greenshore Folly	Ariadne Oliver #4.5	5
Agatha Christie	Destination Unknown		3
Manda Collins	A Lady's Guide to Mischief & Mayhem	Ladies Most Scandalous #1	10
Manda Collins	An Heiress's Guide to Deception & Desire	Ladies Most Scandalous #2	5
Manda Collins	Portrait of a Nightingale		3
Wilkie Collins	Who Killed Zebedee?		1
George Harmon Coxe	Cause for Suspicion		1
Frances Crane	Murder in Bright Red	Pat & Jean Abbott #16	3
Dorothy Salisbury Davis	Lost Generation		1
Miriam Allen Deford	Mortmain		1
Dick Donovan	The Problem of Dead Wood Hall		2
Margaret Doody	Aristotle Detective		1
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	The Brazilian Cat		1
Margaret Erskine (Doris M.W. Willams)	Harriet Farewell	Inspector Finch #20	7
Paul W. Fairman	Wally the Watchful Eye		1
Tim Foley	Nineteen Sixty-Four Ford Falcon		2
E.X. Giroux	A Death for a Double	Robert Forsythe #8	5
Joe Gores	File #1: The Mayfield Case		1
Anna Katharine Green	That Affair Next Door	Ebenezer Gryce #8	1
Simon Guerrier	The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Great War		8
Steven Thor Gunnin	Mama Said		2
Dashiell Hammett	They Can Only Hang You Once		2
Joyce Harrington	The Purple Shroud		1
C.S. Harris (Candice Proctor)	When the Wolves Are Silent	Sebastian St. Cyr #21	19
Tessa Harris	The Anatomist's Apprentice	Dr. Thomas Silkstone #1	8
Kate Heartfield	Six Aspects of Cath Baduma		1
Patricia Highsmith	The Heroine		1
William Hope Hodgson	The Thing Invisible		1
David M. Hoenig	Freedom Is Not Free		5
E.T.A. Hoffman	Mademoiselle de Scuderi		6
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding	The Stranger in the Car		2
H.H. Holmes (William A.P. White)	The Stripper		1
Robert E. Howard	Pigeons from Hell		6
Patrick J. Hurley	Two Out of Three Rule		1
W.W. Jacobs	The Well		2
Franz Kafka	In the Penal Colony		1
Rebecca Kent (Kate Kingsbury)	High Marks for Murder	Bellehaven House #1	1
Michelle Ann King	Getting Shot in the Face Still Stings		2
Rudyard Kipling	The Return of Imray		2
Claude Lalumiere	Less Than Katherine		8
Clare Langley-Hawthorne	Consequences of Sin	Ursula Marlow #1	7
Frances & Richard Lockridge	A Winter's Tale		1
H.P. Lovecraft	The Hound		1
H.P. Lovecraft	From Beyond		2
Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar)	Wild Goose Chase		3
Ed McBain	Nightshade		6
Melba Marlett	Escape While I Can		13
Ngaio Marsh	Tied Up in Tinsel	Roderick Alleyn #27	2
Tom Mead	The Murder Wheel	Joseph Spector #2	12
K.A. Mielke	Drive Safe		2
Edith Nesbitt	In the Dark		3
Gil North (Geoffrey Horne)	The Methods of Sergeant Cluff	Sergeant Cluff #2	2
Hugh Pentecost (Judson Philips)	Chambrun & the Electronic Ear		1
Hugh Pentecost (Judson Philips)	Shadow of Madness	Dr. John Smith #2	5
Herman Petersen	Old Bones	Doc Miller #3	5
Edgar Allan Poe	The Cask of Amontillado		1
Ellery Queen (Dannay & Lee)	The Motive		3
Arthur B. Reeve	The Azure Ring		3
Alexandra Camille Renwick	Redux		1
Rachel Rhys	Dangerous Crossing		4
Craig Rice (Georgiana Craig)	The Fourth Postman	John J. Malone #9	8
Dorothy L. Sayers	The Poisoned Dow '08		1
Norma Schier	Death on the Slopes		4
Jon Scieszka (ed. & compiler)	Who Done It?		4
Fred Senese	The First Seven Deaths of Mildred Orly		6
Alexander McCall Smith	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	No. 1 L.D. Agency #1	5
Sally Smith	A Case of Mice & Murder	Trials of Gabriel Ward #1	3
Robert Louis Stevenson	Markheim		1
Bram Stoker	The Dualists		4
Lee Strauss	Murder on Eaton Square	Ginger Gold #9	3
Lee Strauss	Murder by Plum Pudding	Ginger Gold #11	1
Lawrence Treat	H as in Homicide		1
Nedra Tyre	A Nice Place to Stay		5
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt	Mister Ted		3
Virginia Frances Voight	Treasure of Hemlock Mountain		1
C.E. Vulliamy	Don Among the Dead Men		7
Edgar Wallace	The Gaunt Stranger		7
Ethel Lina White	Cheese		1
Dean H. Wild	Corpses Removed, No Questions Asked		4
Oscar Wilde	Lord Savile's Crime: A Study of Duty		2
Ellen Wilkinson	The Division Bell Mystery		2
Nemma Wollenfang	Fragments of Me		1

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