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Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge 2025

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Ed McBain

creator of the 87th Precinct mystery novels.

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Welcome to the Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge for 2025! Your goal is simple: shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). That gives you a notch on your gun, and a perfect 1.000 score; and you can call it done. But wait, there's more! 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 focus in completing your target(s). No advance signup needed. Just read the General Information page and then submit your shot to begin.
R I C O C H E T S from the S H O O T I N G   G A L L E R Y:
updated Jan 1: All participants from 2024 have been brought forward, kicking and screaming, to this page. No-shows after 30 days will be deleted. Individual shooting galleries will not be available until your first submission.
updated Interested in joining this challenge in 2025? Great! You can get a head start. Place submissions now and they will apply to the 2024 challenge, and partially-completed targets will carry over to 2025, so they will automatically apply there as well!
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Notch Sets of six books by one author completed
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. See the chart (PDF). 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 or any multiple.
Shots Number of books read
Bonus Each notch (beyond the first one) directly adds a 0.100 bonus
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