Welcome to the Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge for 2026! Your goal as Medical Examiner is to read murder mysteries and count toe tags attached to the unfortunate victim(s). Just read the obscure General Information page and then file your death certificate. M U R M U R S from the M O R G U E: Apr 19: The grippy Garnet Gloves go to Tari Hann (Ohio) for gaining 50 toe tags! Apr 19: The beloved Brass Bone Saws go to OutsmartYourShelf (United Kingdom) and Susan Jensen (Arizona) for binding 300 toe tags! Apr 18: The Masters Golf Tournament has its Green Jacket, the Tour de France has its Yellow Jersey, but neither has the haute couture of the Mystillery Morgue's Lavender Lab Coat; awarded for tying 100 toe tags, certainly a bigger accomplishment than hitting a golf ball into a little hole or riding a bicycle while wearing stretchy spandex which leaves little to the imagination. Today we honor batkat (West Virginia) as her Lavender Lab Coat is handed up to her by the previous wearer, Traci L (Illinois)   Review previous challenges: 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

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BUREAU of VITAL STATISTICS updated TUE APR 21 2026 @ 6.00 PM EDT
Medical Examiners 2 7		Authors	Titles 6 4 9	Toe Tags 4 7 3 8	Autopsy notes	Personal effects
	Tina Hilbert Ohio Gold Gurney (most toe tags) @2/10 Magenta Magnifier (500 Toe Tags) @3/24	32	53	813
	JenneB Pennsylvania Scarlet Sponge (400 Toe Tags) @4/2	29	36	455
	OutsmartYourShelf The United Kingdom Brass Bone Saw (300 Toe Tags) @4/18	34	37	329
	Susan Jensen Arizona Brass Bone Saw (300 Toe Tags) @4/19	36	41	308
	Tracy House New York	21	33	297
	Beth M North Carolina	28	30	297
	Colleen Illinois Fuchsia Forceps (200 Toe Tags) @4/13	28	41	264
	Vallery Louisiana	23	29	252
	Bev "Quincy" Hankins Indiana Silver Scalpel (most titles) @2/18 Bronze Body Bag (most authors) @2/1 Fuchsia Forceps (200 Toe Tags) @4/10	52	59	226
	Linda B Kentucky Fuchsia Forceps (200 Toe Tags) @4/12	30	35	205
Medical Examiner		Authors	Titles	Toe Tags	Notes	Personal effects
	Horror Girl Texas	32	39	204
	Sanacrow Tennessee	4	10	194
	Jjean Texas	22	26	138
	batkat West Virginia Lavender Lab Coat (100 Toe Tags) @4/18	11	17	135
	Rick Mills Maine Chief Medical Examiner	31	40	134
	Traci L. Illinois	25	32	104
	Shannon The Netherlands	9	21	93
	Tara Taylor Illinois	9	12	84
	Erika Morris California	8	15	74
	SueC Utah	10	17	64
Medical Examiner		Authors	Titles	Toe Tags	Notes	Personal effects
	Tari Hann Ohio Garnet Gloves (50 Toe Tags) @4/19	16	18	51
	Dianne Lebold Ontario	6	7	15
	Jace Boyer	2	2	6
	Brandy	1	1	3
	Jules Vandemberg Italy	1	1	1
	Karen Baroness Texas	0	0	0
	Jen McFarren Texas	0	0	0
Medical Examiner		Authors	Titles	Toe Tags	Notes	Personal effects

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

Key to symbols Moved up a position(s) New or updated today Update pending Goodreads librarian Kill-o-tag, 1000+ toe tags High column stat 2nd place column stat Tracker page Blog Goodreads profile Mystillery group on Goodreads Instagram

Chief Medical Examiner's journal Mystillery Morgue Tuesday, April 21: The coroner caused it. When he came up to retire, he roused the household with his raucous hullabaloo over a gun - a .38 automatic - which he said had disappeared from his bag in the solarium. Ethel Loban, writing in The Calloused Eye, 1931

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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