2020 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge

News:

• The 2020 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge is now closed. Thank you for your participation! Any uncompleted targets have been carried over to the 2021 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge!

• Susan, Avid Series Reader, scores notch #11 with author M. C. Beaton!

• Susan, Avid Series Reader scores notch #12 with Kathy Lynn Emerson!

• Susan, Avid Series Reader scores notch #13 with Ann B. Ross!

• Ahcop scores notch #3 with author Jean Potts!

• Ahcop scores notch #4 with Miles Burton!

• Ahcop scores notch #5 with Joan Fleming!

• Bev Hankins scores notch #7 with Agatha Christie!

• Bev Hankins scores notch #8 with C. S. Harris!

• The annual rollover is just hours away! The 2020 Six Shooter will close on Christmas Eve (Dec 24). For the period Dec 25-31, you can still submit entries, they will be applied to the 2021 challenge. The rollover will go like this:
  1. Completed targets will be removed. (You will still be able to see your 2019/2020 activity on the archived challenge pages).
  2. Partially completed targets will roll into 2021 provided there was some activity on that target in 2020.
  3. If there was no activity on a target in 2020, that target will be considered abandoned and towed away. Targets which are in danger of being dropped are now highlighted in red for your annoyance.

READER BOARD updated THU DEC 24 2020 @ midnight EST convert Gunslingers: 18 sorted by TCP, then shots fired. highest stats highlighted in green.
Gunslinger		TCP*	Shots fired	Active targets	Notches (Completed targets)	More info
	Lynn Pennsylvania	1.000	6	0	1	<-- books for you!
	Fanda Indonesia	1.000	6	0	1
	Bev Hankins Indiana	.960	50	1	8
	sk888888 New Jersey	.933	45	1	7
	JJA India	.857	21	1	3
	SueC Utah	.818	66	6	9
	Rick Mills Maine	.782	69	7	9	<-- books for you!
	Ahcop India	.588	51	8	5
	Tari Hann Ohio	.545	55	15	5
	Avid Series Reader New Mexico	.520	150	40	13	<-- books for you!
	Jjean Missouri	.428	14	5	1
	Traci L. Illinois	.153	78	45	2
	Stephanie W Colorado	.000	4	1	0
	Deanie Georgia	.000	2	2	0
	Jane Reads South Carolina	.000	1	6	0
	Donnisha Maryland	.000	1	1	0
	Nessa Maine	.000	0	2	0
	Boocks Books Michigan	.000	0	1	0
	Lane open This could be you. Come on in.	.000	0	0	0
	Lane open This lane is closest to the snack bar.	.000	0	0	0
	Range Totals		619 shots fired	142 active targets	64 notches

challenger has moved up a row

highest stats per column

* TCP = Target Completion Percentage. This is similar to a batting average in baseball. It is the ratio of notches achieved (e.g., completed targets) to the number of shots taken. The formula is (completed targets/shots taken)*6. Completed targets will improve your TCP. However, shots that do not complete a target will lower your TCP. It's maddening, but that's the incentive to complete your targets, and it leads to a lot of exciting movement up and down the Reader Board. It also leads to the curious effect that you can rise in the Reader Board standings by simply doing nothing while other gunslingers read books that do not complete targets! Also note that the TCP is not affected by the number of active targets you have up (we have an infinite number of lanes), so load up the shooting gallery! Marge N. O'Vera, Shooting Gallery Statistician

Shooting gallery:

alphabetical by gunslinger s

Gunslinger	Target *	1 (links to review)	2	3	4	5	6
Ahcop	Miles Burton (Cecil Street)	Mr. Westerby Missing	Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole	Found Drowned	The Secret of High Eldersham	Look Alive	Death in a Duffle Coat
	John Dickson Carr	The Nine Wrong Answers	Papa La-Bas	The Mad Hatter Mystery	It Walks by Night
	Freeman Wills Crofts	The Cask
	Elizabeth Daly	Unexpected Night Henry Gamadge #1	Deadly Nightshade Henry Gamadge #2
	Joan Fleming	The Chill and the Kill	Miss Bones	Death of a Sardine	A Daisy Chain for Satan	Maiden's Prayer	In the Red
	Lucille Fletcher	Mirror Image	...And Presumed Dead	The Strange Blue Yawl	Night Watch	The Girl in Cabin B54	Eighty Dollars to Stamford
	Erle Stanly Gardner	The Case of the Gilded Lily Perry Mason #50
	Anthony Gilbert	Out For the Kill	A Question of Murder	Prelude to Murder	Passenger to Nowhere
	P. M. Hubbard	The Dancing Man	A Rooted Sorrow	A Thirsty Evil
	E. C. R. Lorac (Edith Rivett)	Speak Justly of the Dead	Relative to Poison	Black Beadle	The Last Escape	Shroud of Darkness	Bats in the Belfry
	E. Phillips Oppenheim	The Great Impersonation	The Golden Beast
	Jean Potts	Go, Lovely Rose	Death of a Stray Cat	The Diehard	Lightning Strikes Twice	The Little Lie	My Brother's Killer
	Joseph Shearing (Marjorie Bowen)	Aunt Beardie	The Crimes of Laura Sarelle
	Hillary Waugh	Sleep Long, My Love	Girl on the Run
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Avid Series Reader	L.L. Bartlett	Dead in Red Jeff Resnick #2
	M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney Gibbons)	Death of a Greedy Woman	Death of a Prankster Hamish MacBeth #7	Death of a Traveling Man Hamish MacBeth #9	Death of a Charming Man Hamish MacBeth #10	Death of a Nag Hamish MacBeth #11	Death of a Macho Man Hamish MacBeth #12
	Jessica Beck (Tim Myers)	Sinister Sprinkles Donut Shop Mystery #3	Evil Eclairs Donut Shop Mystery #4
	Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin)	Masked Ball at Broxley Manor Royal Spyness #0.5	Naughty in Nice Royal Spyness #5	In Like Flynn Molly Murphy #4	Oh Danny Boy Molly Murphy #5	12 Clues of Christmas Royal Spyness #6	Heirs and Graces
	Frances Brody (Frances McNeil)	Dying in the Wool Kate Shackleton #1	A Medal for Murder Kate Shackleton #2
	Fiona Buckley (Valerie Anand)	The Doublet Affair	Queen's Ransom	To Ruin a Queen
	Vanetta Chapman	A Perfect Square	Material Witness
	Barbara Cleverly	The Damascened Blade	The Palace Tiger	The Bee's Kiss
	Cleo Coyle (Alice Alfonsi & Marc Cerasini)	The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller Haunted Bookshop #6
	Philip R. Craig	First Light	Vineyard Enigma #13	A Vineyard Killing #14	Murder at a Vineyard Mansion #15	Vineyard Prey #16	Second Sight J.W. Jackson / Brady Coyne #2
	Deborah Crombie	All Shall Be Well	Dreaming of the Bones	Mourn Not Your Dead	Leave the Grave Green	Kissed a Sad Goodbye	A Finer End
	Ellen Crosby	Harvest of Secrets Wine Country #9
	Judy Ann Davis	Four White Roses	Up on the Roof
	Joan Druett	Shark Island	Run Afoul	Deadly Shoals
	Martin Edwards	I Remember You	The Dungeon House
	Kathy Lynn Emerson Kaitlyn Dunnett	Face Down Under the Wych Elm	Face Down Before Rebel Hooves	Different Times, Different Crimes	Kilt Dead Liss MacCrimmon #1	Deadlier than the Pen Diana Spaulding #1	Face Down Across the Western Sea Susanna, Lady Appleton #7
	Monica Ferris	Thai Die	Knitting Bones
	Charles Finch	The Woman in the Water	A Death in the Small Hours	An Old Betrayal	The Laws of Murder	Home by Nightfall	The Inheritance
	Nicci French (Nicci Gerrard & Sean French)	Blue Monday Freida Klein #1
	Diana Gabaldon	Lord John and the Hellfire Club Lord John Grey #0.5	Lord John and the Private Matter Lord John Grey #1	Lord John and the Succubus Lord John Grey #1.5	Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade Lord John Grey #2	Lord John and the Haunted Soldier Lord John Grey #2.5	Virgins
	Diana Gabaldon	The Scottish Prisoner Lord John Grey #3
	Tess Gerritsen	The Shape of Night
	Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger's Drift Inspector Barnaby #1	Death of a Hollow Man Inspector Barnaby #2
	Kerry Greenwood	The Green Mill Murder Phryne Fisher #5	Blood and Circuses Phryne Fisher #6	Ruddy Gore Phryne Fisher #7	Forbidden Fruit Corinna Chapman #5	Cooking the Books Corinna Chapman #6	The Spotted Dog Corinna Chapman #7
	Iona Grey	Letters to the Lost
	Elly Griffiths (Domenica de Rosa)	Smoke and Mirrors Stephens & Mephisto #2	The Blood Card Stephens & Mephisto #3
	Martha Grimes	The Knowledge Richard Jury #24	The Old Success Richard Jury #25
	John Harvey	Darkness & Light
	Sarah Jio	The Violets of March	The Bungalow
	Mari Jungstedt	Unspoken Anders Knutas #2	The Inner Circle Anders Knutas #3
	Erin Kelly	The Poison Tree
	Kate Kingsbury Allison Kingsley  Doreen Roberts  Rebecca Kent (Doreen Roberts Height)	For Whom Death Tolls	Dig Deep for Murder	Dead and Breakfast	Mind Over Murder Raven's Nest #1	A Sinister Sense	Doom with a View Merry Ghost Inn #2
	Karen MacInerney	Brush with Death Gray Whale Inn #5	Death Runs Adrift Gray Whale Inn #6
	Adrian McKinty	The Cold Cold Ground
	Kristina McMorris	Letters from Home	The Edge of Lost
	Christine Mangan	Tangerine
	Henning Mankell	The Fifth Woman
	Steve Martini	Compelling Evidence Paul Madriani #1	Prime Witness Paul Madriani #2	Undue Influence Paul Madriani #3
	Peter May	Firemaker China Thrillers #1
	Susan Meissner	A Bridge Across the Ocean	A Sound Among the Trees
	Marcia Muller	The McCone Files	The Dangerous Hour Sharon McCone #22	The Vanishing Point Sharon McCone #23	The Ever-Running Man	Point Deception Cape Perdido #1	Burn Out Sharon McCone #25
	Carol O'Connell	Judas Child	Bone By Bone	Find Me Kathleen Mallory #9	The Chalk Girl Kathleen Mallory #10	It Happened in the Dark Kathleen Mallory #11	Blind Sight Kathleen Mallory #12
	Ann Parker	What Gold Buys	A Dying Note
	T. Jefferson Parker	The Fallen
	Sandra Parshall	Broken Places	Disturbing the Dead
	Michael Pearce	A Dead Man in Trieste Seymour of Special Branch #1	A Dead Man in Istanbul Seymour of Special Branch #2	A Dead Man in Athens Seymour of Special Branch #3	A Dead Man in Tangier Seymour of Special Branch #4	A Dead Man in Barcelona Seymour of Special Branch #5
	Andrea Penrose	Murder at Black Swan Lane Wrexford & Sloane #1	Sweet Revenge Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #1
	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham
	Lucinda Riley	The Love Letter	The Orchid House
	Michael Robotham	Lost Joseph O'Loughlin #2	Shatter Joseph O'Loughlin #3
	David Rosenfelt	Open and Shut	Sudden Death	Bury the Lead	First Degree	Dead Center	Play Dead
	Ann B. Ross	Miss Julia Throws a Wedding #3	Miss Julia Hits the Road #4	Miss Julia Meets Her Match #5	Miss Julia's School of Beauty #6	Miss Julia Stands Her Ground #7	Miss Julia Strikes Back #8
	Arlene Sachitano	The Quilt Before the Storm Harriet Truman / Loose Threads #5
	Lauren Willig	Betrayal of the Blood Lily Pink Carnation #6
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Bev Hankins	Agatha Christie	4:50 from Paddington	And Then There Were None	The Unexpected Guest	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	The Big Four	The Mystery of the Blue Train
	Agatha Christie	The Clocks	The Seven Dials Mystery	Partners in Crime	The Mysterious Mr. Quin	Murder at the Vicarage	Death on the Nile
	Agatha Christie	The ABC Murders	Peril at End House	The Sittaford Mystery	Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories	Thirteen at Dinner (Lord Edgware Dies)	The Hound of Death
	Douglas Clark	Nobody's Perfect	Death After Evensong	Deadly Pattern	Golden Rain	The Longest Pleasure	The Gimmel Flask
	C. S. Harris	What Angels Fear	When Gods Die	Why Mermaids Sing	Where Serpents Sleep	What Remains of Heaven	Where Shadows Dance
	Lee Harris (Syrell Leahy)	The Christening Day Murder	The Valentine's Day Murder	The Passover Murder	The New Year's Eve Murder	The April Fool's Day Murder	The Bar Mitzvah Murder
	Claude Izner (Liliane Korb & Laurence Lefèvre)	Murder on the Eiffel Tower	The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise
	Frances & Richard Lockridge	Killing the Goose	Spin Your Web, Lady!	Stand Up and Die	Curtain for a Jester	Murder in a Hurry	A Client Is Cancelled
	Dorothy L. Sayers	Gaudy Night	Unnatural Death	Thrones, Dominations	The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club	Have His Carcase	The Nine Tailors
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Boocks Books	Tonya Kappes
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Deanie	Agatha Christie	And Then There Were None
	J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)	Divided in Death
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Donnisha	Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)	The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Fanda	Agatha Christie	The Sittaford Mystery	Peril at End House	Lord Edgeware Dies a.p.a. 13 at Dinner	Murder on the Orient Express	Three Act Tragedy	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Jane Reads	Ellie Alexander (Kate Dyer-Seeley)
	Rita Mae Brown
	V. M. Burns
	J. C. Eaton	Botched 4 Murder
	Karen MacInerney
	Diane Vallere
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
JJA	Robert Arthur Jr.	The Secret of Terror Castle Three Investigators #1	The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot Three Investigators #2	The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy Three Investigators #3
	Enid Blyton	The Secret Of Cliff Castle	Smuggler Ben	The Boy Who Wanted A Dog	The Mystery of The Missing Necklace Five Find-Outers #5	The Mystery of Holly Lane Five Find-Outers #11	The Mystery of the Missing Man Five Find-Outers #13
	Franklin W. Dixon	Running on Fumes Undercover Brothers #2	Rocky Road Undercover Brothers #5	Operation Survival Undercover Brothers # 7	Top Ten Ways to Die Undercover Brothers #8	Martial Law Undercover Brothers # 9	Murder at the Mall Undercover Brothers #17
	Luther Tsai and Nury Vittachi	The Visionary Voyage Magic Mirror #1	The Traveller's Tale Magic Mirror #2	The Tomb of Time Magic Mirror #3	The Wall of Willows Magic Mirror #4	The Shining Scripture Magic Mirror #5	The Chess Pavilion Magic Mirror #6
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Jjean	David Baldacci	The Fallen	A Minute to Midnight	One Good Deed
	Michael Connelly	Fair Warning	Night Fire
	Stephen King	Bag of Bones	The Institute
	James Patterson	Alex Cross's Trial	The River Murders	20th Victim	Texas Outlaw	Worst Case	The 5th Horseman
	James Patterson	Killer Instinct
	Danielle Steel
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Lynn	R.D. Wingfield	Frost at Christmas Inspector Frost #1	A Touch of Frost Inspector Frost #2	Night Frost Inspector Frost #3	Hard Frost Inspector Frost #4	Winter Frost Inspector Frost #5	Morning Frost
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Nessa	Jessa Archer
	Agatha Christie
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Rick Mills	Leslie Charteris	The Saint Goes On	Saint Overboard	The Brighter Buccaneer	The Saint and the Templar Treasure	The Saint in Miami	The Avenging Saint
	Agatha Christie	Death on the Nile
	Manning Coles (Adelaide Manning & Cyril Coles)	Drink to Yesterday	Toast to Tomorrow	They Tell No Tales	Now or Never	Not Negotiable	A Knife for the Juggler
	Philip R. Craig	Death in Vineyard Waters #2	Death on a Vineyard Beach #7	Vineyard Enigma #13	Murder at a Vineyard Mansion #15
	Arthur Conan Doyle	A Study in Scarlet	The Sign of the Four	The Hound of the Baskervilles	The Valley of Fear	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
	J. Jefferson Farjeon	Mystery in White	Seven Dead	The Z Murders	No. 17	The Master Criminal	Thirteen Guests
	Hulbert Footner	The Under Dogs	The Deaves Affair	The Whip-Poor-Will Mystery	Murder Runs in the Family	The Mystery of the Folded Paper	The House with the Blue Door
	Erle Stanley Gardner	The D.A. Calls it Murder Doug Selby #1	The D.A. Holds a Candle Doug Selby #2	The D.A. Draws a Circle Doug Selby #3	The D.A. Goes to Trial Doug Selby #4	The D.A. Cooks a Goose Doug Selby #5	The D.A. Calls A Turn Doug Selby #6
	Erle Stanley Gardner	The D.A. Breaks a Seal Doug Selby #7	The D.A. Takes a Chance Doug Selby #8	The D.A. Breaks an Egg Doug Selby #9	The Case of the Musical Cow	Murder Up My Sleeve Terry Clane #1	The Case of the Backward Mule Terry Clane #2
	Erle Stanley Gardner	This is Murder	The Clue of the Forgotten Murder
	Martha Grimes	The Man with a Load of Mischief Richard Jury #1
	Kathleen Moore Knight	The Trouble at Turkey Hill	Death Came Dancing	Bait for Murder	Murder/Intrigue for Empire
	Ellery Queen Frederic Dannay & Manfred Lee
	Dorothy L. Sayers	Whose Body?	Clouds of Witness	Murder Must Advertise	Gaudy Night	Strong Poison	Have His Carcase
	Edgar Wallace	The Four Just Men	The Secret House	The Man Who Knew	The Girl from Scotland Yard	The Feathered Serpent	The Dark Eyes of London
	Carolyn Wells	The Clue	The Maxwell Mystery	Faulkner's Folly
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
sk888888	M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney)	Death of a Snob	Death of an Outsider	Death Of A Traveling Man	Death Of A Dustman	Death of a Perfect Wife	Death of a Hussy
	Andrea Camilleri	A Nest of Vipers	Pyramid of Mud	The Overnight Kidnapper	The Other End of the Line	Death At Sea	Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
	Paul Cleave	Joe Victim	Cemetery Lake	Collecting Cooper	The Laughterhouse	Five Minutes Alone	Trust No One
	Barry Eisler	A Lonely Resurrection	Winner Take All	The Last Assassin
	Paul Levine	False Dawn	Last Chance Lassiter	Solomon vs. Lord	Bum Deal	Kill All The Lawyers	State vs Lassiter
	Ed McBain	Kiss	Money, Money, Money	Fat Ollie's Book	The Frumious Bandersnatch	Hark!	The Gutter And The Grave
	Archer Mayor	Borderlines	Scent of Evil	The Skeleton's Knee	Fruits of the Poisonous Tree	The Dark Root	Ragman's Memory
	Nick Pirog	3:00 AM	3:10 AM	3:21 AM	Unforseen	3:34 AM	3:46 AM
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Stephanie W.	J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)	Visions In Death	Survivor In Death	Origin In Death	Memory In Death
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
SueC	Susan Wittig Albert	Dead Man's Bones	Bleeding Hearts	Spanish Dagger	Nightshade	Wormwood	The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle
	Susan Wittig Albert	Holly Blues
	Donna Andrews	Duck the Halls	The Good, the Bad, and the Emus	The Nightingale before Christmas
	Lorna Barrett (Lorraine Bartlett)	Title Wave
	Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin)	Murphy's Law	Her Royal Spyness Royal Spyness #1	A Royal Pain Royal Spyness #2	Royal Flush Royal Spyness #3	Royal Blood Royal Spyness #4	Naughty in Nice Royal Spyness #5
	Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin)	The Twelve Clues of Christmas Royal Spyness #6	Heirs and Graces Royal Spyness #7	Queen of Hearts Royal Spyness #8	Malice at the Palace Royal Spyness #9	Crowned and Dangerous Royal Spyness #10	On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service Royal Spyness #11
	C. J. Box	Savage Run	Open Season	Winterkill	Trophy Hunt	Out of Range	In Plain Sight
	C. J. Box	Free Fire	Blood Trail	Below Zero	Nowhere to Run	Cold Wind	Breaking Point
	C. J. Box	Stone Cold	Endangered	Off the Grid	Vicious Circle	The Disappeared	Wolf Pack
	Elly Griffiths (Domenica de Rosa)	The Ghost Fields	The Zig Zag Girl	Smoke and Mirrors	The Blood Card	The Vanishing Box	Now You See Them
	Laurie R. King	A Grave Talent Kate Martinelli #1	To Play the Fool Kate Martinelli #2	With Child Kate Martinelli #3	Night Work Kate Martinelli #4	The Art of Detection Kate Martinelli #5	O Jerusalem Mary Russell #5
	Laurie R. King	Justice Hall Mary Russell #6	The Game Mary Russell #7	Locked Rooms Mary Russell #8
	Patrick McManus	The Blight Way Sheriff Bo Tully #1	Avalanche Sheriff Bo Tully #2	The Double-Jack Murders Sheriff Bo Tully #3
	Anne Perry	A Christmas Grace
	Karen White	The House on Tradd Street	The Girl on Legare Street	The Strangers on Montagu Street	Return to Tradd Street	The Guests on South Battery	The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Tari Hann	Avery Aames (Daryl Wood Gerber)	Lost and Fondue	A Sprinkling of Murder
	Ellery Adams	The Book of Candlelight	Peach Pies and Alibis
	Winnie Archer	Kneaded to Death
	Cindy Bell	The Sweet Smell of Murder
	Jennie Bentley	Fatal Fixer-Upper
	Miranda Bliss	Cooking Up Murder
	Catherine Bruns	Killer Transaction
	Kate Carlisle	This Old Homicide
	Lyndsey Cole	BlackBuried Pie	Very Buried Cheesecake	Gunpowder Chowder	RaspBuried Torte	PoisonBuried Punch
	Kathi Daley	Cupid's Curse	Christmas in Paradise	Puppies in Paradise	Much Ado About Felines	Beach Blanket Barbie	Maui Madness
	Kathi Daley	Derby Divas	Haunted Hamlet	Halloween Moon	Turkeys, Tuxes and Tabbies	Thanksgiving Past	Christmas Cozy
	Joanna Fluke (Joanne Fischmann)	Sugar Cookie Murder	Blueberry Muffin Murder	Coconut Layer Cake Murder	Fudge Cupcake Murder	Peach Cobbler Murder	Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
	Joanna Fluke (Joanne Fischmann)	Christmas Cupcake Murder
	Carole Fowkes	Plateful of Murder
	Lee Hollis (Rick Copp & Holly Simason)	Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury	Death of a Blueberry Tart	Death of a Chocoholic	Death of a Wicked Witch	Murder at the PTA
	Tonya Kappes (Maymee Bell)	Stamped Out	Dead to the Last Drop	Southern Fried	Address for Murder	Canyons, Caravans & Cadavers	Assailants, Asphalt & Alibis
	Tonya Kappes (Maymee Bell)	Sunsets, Sabbatical & Scandal	All She Wrote	Return to Sender	First Class Killer	Tents, Trails & Turmoil	Kickbacks, Kayaks & Kidnapping
	Tonya Kappes (Maymee Bell)	Gear, Grills & Guns
	Mary Kruger	Death on the Cliff Walk
	Gayle Leeson	The Calamity Café
	Target	1	2	3	4	5	6
Traci L.	Ellery Adams	Murder in the Storybook Cottage
	Winnie Archer	Flour in the Attic
	Bree Baker	Live and Let Chai
	Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin)	Her Royal Spyness
	Leslie Budewitz	Death Al Dente
	Joseph Mark Brewer	Tokyo Summer
	Lucy Burdette (Roberta Isleib)	An Appetite for Murder
	V. M. Burns	The Plot is Murder	Read Herring Hunt	Novel Art of Murder	Wed, Read & Dead	Bookmarked for Murder
	Lynn Cahoon	Who Moved my Goat Cheese
	Kate Carlisle	The Grim Reader
	Laurie Cass	Lending a Paw
	Vivien Chien	Egg Drop Dead
	Laura Childs (Gerry Schmitt)	Eggs on Ice	Mumbo Gumbo Murder	Parchment and Old Lace
	Agatha Christie	Murder on the Orient Express
	Mary Higgins Clark	Kiss the Girls and Make them Cry	Every Breath you Take
	Leena Clover	Gone With the Wings
	Nancy Coco (Nancy J. Parra)	All Fudged Up
	Sheila Connolly	Buried in a Bog
	Donna Amis Davis	Danger at the Dive Shack	Disquiet at the Dive Shack	Duplicity at the Dive Shack
	Jessica Fletcher	Aloha Betrayed	The Murder of Twelve	A Time for Murder
	Amanda Flower	Toxic Toffee	Crime and Poetry
	Joanna Fluke (Joanne Fischmann)	Coconut Layer Cake Murder
	Sarah Fox	Wine and Punishment	An Ale of Two Cities
	Sally Goldenbaum	Death by Cashmere
	J. M. Griffin	Left Fur Dead	Who's Dead, Doc?
	Sherry Harris	Let's Fake a Deal
	Miranda James (Dean James)	Bless Her Dead Little Heart
	Jennifer Joy	Cabs, Cakes and Corpses	Rum Raisin Revenge
	Tonya Kappes	Beaches, Bungalows and Burglaries
	Libby Klein	Class Reunions are Murder	Midnight Snacks are Murder	Restaurant Weeks are Murder
	C A Larmer	Agatha Christie Book Club
	Ruby Loren	The Florist and the funeral
	Jenn McKinlay	Buried to the Brim	Word to the Wise	Hitting the Books	Pumpkin Spice Peril	One for the Books
	Alyssa Maxwell	Murder at the Breakers
	Colleen Mooney	Rescued by a Kiss
	Catie Murphy	Dead in Dublin
	Sara Paretsky	Shell Game
	James Patterson	19th Christmas	The Medical Examiner	Private Games	20th Victim	Private The Games	Private Gold
	Meredith Potts	Chocolates with a side of murder
	Sara Rosett	Death in the English Countryside
	Debra Sennefelder	Three Widows and a Corpse
	Paige Shelton	To Helvetica and Back
	Joanna Campbell Slan	Kiki Lowenstein and the Purple Passion
	Denise Swanson	Winner Cake All
	Ruth Ware (Ruth Warburton)	The Woman in Cabin 10
	Stuart Woods	Stealth	Treason	Contraband	Money Shot	Hit List	Bombshell
	Ovidia Yu	Aunty Lee's Delights

* Pseudonyms (pen names) are set in italics.

Key:

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Rolled over from 2019

Almost there!

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Goal:

• Shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). You get one notch on your gun (and a prize) for each target completed.

How to:

1. You can sign up on this page.
2. Shoot (read) book #1
3. Submit the form.
4. Reload,repeat until you have read 6 books. Once you complete 6, you get a notch on your gun.
5. Please note the Shooting Gallery does not update in real time. Your submission generates an email to The Grand Targetmeister, who will fill in the data.
6. This is a rolling challenge. How does that work? At the end of the year (Dec 31 2020):
   • A new page is set up for 2021, and the 2020 challenge is archived for your future reference.
   • Completed targets are removed.
   • Partially-completed targets roll over to 2021, provided there was some activity on that target during 2020. Otherwise they will be considered abandoned and removed.

Rules:

1. The 2020 challenge has closed.
2. Maintenance: Between Dec 25-31 2020, your host will be resetting the challenge for the next opening. You can still submit entries during that period, they will appear in the 2021 challenge.
3. 2021 open: The 2021 challenge will open January 1, 2021.
4. Genres: You get to decide what is a 'mystery'. Traditional murder mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, young adult, romances, all are welcome.
5. Formats: Print books, audio books, radio dramatizations, or e-books may be used.
6. Each completed target earns you a notch on your gun.
7. Once you have completed a target, you can target the same author again for additional notches.
8. You can target different authors simultaneously or consecutively.
9. Young folks are especially welcome too. Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew readers are naturals!
10. Pseudonyms count as the same author, for example, if your target is Erle Stanley Gardner, you can count books by A. A. Fair.
11. You do not need to write reviews, but you are welcome to. If you supply a link to your blog or Goodreads review, I will link to it.
12. Bloggers are welcome to copy any images from this challenge.
13. Never enter the secret passageway first.

Prizes!

• Each completed target in the Shooting Gallery gives you a notch on your gun and a prize. See the prize list for details.

FAQ

• What about books that are a collaborative effort? The members of the Detection Club wrote a few novels where they (say from 5-7 members) wrote a couple of chapters each.

  I would suggest just calling the author "The Detection Club". We already treat dual authors as one anyway (Frances & Richard Lockridge, for example).

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