Calendar of Crime 2020 challenge is hosted by Bev @My Reader’s Block.
This is the checkoff sheet.
January
Original publication month: Death Comes to the Nursery by Catherine Lloyd
Primary Action takes place in this month: The Case of the Headless Jesuit by George Bellairs
Author’s Birth Month: Dead Men Don’t Ski by Patricia Moyes
A snow-bound country house mystery: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder by Victoria Dowd
February
Original publication month: Murder Makes Scents by Christin Brecher
Book title has word starting with ‘F’: Fear for Miss Betony by Dorothy Bowers
Primary action takes place this month: Still Life by Val McDermid
March
Book title has word starting with ‘M’: A Messy Affair by Elizabeth Mundy
Original publication month: Flower Power Trip by James J. Cudney IV
Money/Fortune/Inheritance has major role: Death in the Night Watches by George Bellairs
Month related item on cover (something green): Peachy Scream by Anna Gerard
April
Author’s birth month: The Case of the Seven Whistlers by George Bellairs
Original Publication Month: Diver’s Paradise by David Goodwin
Book title has word starting with ‘A’: Dash Away All by Christina Freeburn
Month-related item on cover (bunny): Who’s Dead, Doc? by J.M.Griffin
May
Original publication month: A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton
Month-related item on cover (graves): Laid in Earth by Graham Brack
Book title has word starting with ‘M’: Murder Most Sweet by Laura Jansen Walker
Military figure or mother has a major role: Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Other May Holiday (Mother’s Day): Death by Windmill by Jennifer Alderson
June
Book title has word starting with ‘J’: Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
Original publication month: Sprinkles of Suspicion by Kim Davis
Month related theme on the cover (cake): Wedding Cake and Woes by Agatha Frost
July
Original publication month: Winter of the Wolf by Martha Hunt Handler
Takes place in US or Canada: That Affair Next Door by Anna Katherine Green
August
Primary action takes place in this month: Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
Month related item on cover (school): Asbury High and the Thief’s Gamble by Kelly Brady Channick
Original Publication Month: Mums and Mayhem by Amanda Flower
September
Author’s birth month: Excellent Intentions by Richard Hull
Book title has word starting with ‘S’: Staging Wars by Grace Topping
Setting=place of employment: Death sends for the Doctor by George Bellairs
October
Primary action takes place in this month: The Case of the Demented Spiv by George Bellairs
November
Author’s birth month: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr
Book title has word starting with ‘N’: No Truth Left to Tell by Michael McAuliffe
December
Book title has word starting with ‘D’: Death Stops the Frolic by George Bellairs
Original Publication Month: Brownies and Bloodshed by Agatha Frost
Christmas: Gingerbread and Ghosts by Agatha Frost
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