2022 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge

Today's highlighted mystery author: Valentine Williams creator of Secret Service thrillers set between WWI and WWII. See who is reading this author.

Welcome to the 2022 Six Shooter Challenge! Your goal is to shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). You get one notch on your gun for each target completed. After your first target completion, you get bonus points for each additional notch. Unlike many reading challenges, reading more books may not necessarily help your score. Scores are not based upon quantity, but rather efficient shooting in reaching your target(s). Just read a book and submit your entry to set up a target! R I C O C H E T S Congrats to Suzieq (Virginia) as she completes her Lee Strauss target to carve her first notch ! Welcome to our newest gunslinger, JenneB (Pennsylvania) as she takes aim at author P. D. James ! Welcome to our newest gunslinger, Anne A. (Maine) as she takes aim at author C. J. Box ! Here is the January Mystillery Newsletter.

Who else took a shot at my book? Enter Author or Title:

READER BOARD updated THU JAN 20 2022 @ 1.15 pm EST convert
Gunslingers 1 7		Notches 0 5	/ Shots 1 0 1	x6 = TCP 0. 2 9 7	+ bonus	= score	Shooting Gallery	Collateral Damage
	Sanacrow Tennessee	1	6	1.000	0	1.000
	Simone C. Alabama	1	6	1.000	0	1.000
	YalondaReads Germany	1	8	0.750	0	0.750
	Suzieq Virginia	1	10	0.600	0	0.600
	Tina Hilbert Utah	1	15	0.400	0	0.400
	SueC Utah	0	12	0	0	0
	Colleen Illlinois	0	7	0	0	0
	Tari Hann Ohio	0	7	0	0	0
	Rick Mills Maine	0	8	0	0	0
	Bev "Quincy" Hankins Indiana	0	6	0	0	0
	Avid Series Reader New Mexico	0	6	0	0	0
	Scott Nickels Georgia	0	3	0	0	0
	OutsmartYourShelf The United Kingdom	0	2	0	0	0
	Ena_Reads_Books The United Kingdom	0	2	0	0	0
	JenneB Pennsylvania	0	1	0	0	0
	Anne A. Maine	0	1	0	0	0
	Rhonda D Alabama	0	1	0	0	0

Key to symbols
	Moved up
	New or updated today
	Sharpshooter badge (score 1.000+ at some point*)
	Booksniper badge (score 2.000+ at some point*)
	High column stat
	2nd place column stat
	Shooting Gallery
	Tracker page
	Blog
	Goodreads profile
	Paperback Swap bookshelf

*you keep the badge even if your score subsequently drops below the threshold.

• Notch = Sets of six books by one author completed
• Shots = Total number of books read
• TCP = Target Completion Percentage. This is similar to a baseball batting average. Ratio of notches achieved to the number of shots taken. The formula is (notches/shots)*6. Shots which complete a target will increase your TCP. Shots which do not complete a target will decrease your TCP. A perfect TCP is 1.000.
• Bonus = Each notch (beyond the first one) directly adds a 0.100 bonus
• Score = TCP + bonus

How to:

1. Advance signup is no longer needed.
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 post the data. Generally, you should see your submission posted within 24 hours. If you do not see it, click the REFRESH button on your web browser to reload the page.
6. This is a rolling challenge. How does that work? At the end of the year, incomplete targets carry forward to the following year.

Rules:

1. The challenge runs from January 1 - December 31, 2022.
2. Genres: You get to decide what is a 'mystery'. Traditional murder mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, young adult, short stories, true crime, romances, all are welcome.
3. Formats: Print books, audio books, radio dramatizations, or e-books may be used.
4. Each completed target earns you a notch on your gun.
5. Once you have completed a target, you can target the same author again for additional notches.
6. You can target different authors simultaneously or consecutively.
7. Pseudonyms count as the same author, for example, if your target is Erle Stanley Gardner, you can count books by A. A. Fair.
8. You do not need to write reviews, but you are welcome to. If you supply a link to your blog or Goodreads review, the title will link to it.
9. Bloggers are welcome to copy any images from this challenge.
10. Do not point your gun at other challengers.

Archive

• 2019 Six Shooter Challenge
• 2020 Six Shooter Challenge
• 2021 Six Shooter Challenge
• The Missing Challenge Reader Case

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).

• Questions? Email me at rickmills9@gmail.com. Thank you for participating!

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