The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

1. The Butler Did It
2. The impending storm brings a death
3. The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4. Suddenly, all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5. Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.

1.The Butler Did It
2.The impending storm brings a death
3.The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4.Suddenly all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5.Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.
6.The body is found in a room locked from the inside.

1.The Butler Did It
2.The impending storm brings a death
3.The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4.Suddenly all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5.Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.
6.The body is found in a room locked from the inside.
7. There's a full moon on the night of the murder.

1,The Butler Did It
2.The impending storm brings a death
3The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4.Suddenly all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5.Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.
6.The body is found in a room locked from the inside.
7.There's a full moon on the night of the murder.
8.The window in the library is broken and there are footprints in the flower bed outside.

2222319 1,The Butler Did It
2.The impending storm brings a death
3The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4.Suddenly all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5.Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.
6.The body is found in a room locked from the inside.
7.There's a full moon on the night of the murder.
8.The window in the library is broken and there are footprints in the flower bed outside.
9. A hissing sound was heard, coming from the gas oven. The pilot light had been extinguished!!

1,The Butler Did It
2.The impending storm brings a death
3The second dead body belongs to someone who knew too much/saw something/heard something about the first murder.
4.Suddenly all the lights went out and a shot was heard.
5.Fingerprints were wiped clean from the murder weapon.
6.The body is found in a room locked from the inside.
7.There's a full moon on the night of the murder.
8.The window in the library is broken and there are footprints in the flower bed outside.
9. A hissing sound was heard, coming from the gas oven. The pilot light had been extinguished!!
10. Thunder booms and lightning flashes just as the detective is about to name the murderer.

How about 10 mysteries set in the South.

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day by Ann George

2. The Empty Copper Sea - Mcdonald

In the Heat of the Night by John Ball

Deep South by Nevada Barr

Shakespeare's Christmas Charlaine Harris

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day-Ann George
2. The Empty Copper Sea-McDonald
3. In the Heat of the Night--John Ball
4. Deep South--Nevada Barr
5. Shapespeare's Christmas--Charlaine Harris
6. The King of Lies--John Hart

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day-Ann George
2. The Empty Copper Sea-McDonald
3. In the Heat of the Night--John Ball
4. Deep South--Nevada Barr
5. Shapespeare's Christmas--Charlaine Harris
6. The King of Lies--John Hart
7.The Blue Edge Of Midnight by Jonathan King

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day-Ann George
2. The Empty Copper Sea-McDonald
3. In the Heat of the Night--John Ball
4. Deep South--Nevada Barr
5. Shapespeare's Christmas--Charlaine Harris
6. The King of Lies--John Hart
7.The Blue Edge Of Midnight by Jonathan King
8. Master of the Delta--Thomas H. Cook

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day-Ann George
2. The Empty Copper Sea-McDonald
3. In the Heat of the Night--John Ball
4. Deep South--Nevada Barr
5. Shapespeare's Christmas--Charlaine Harris
6. The King of Lies--John Hart
7.The Blue Edge Of Midnight by Jonathan King
8. Master of the Delta--Thomas H. Cook
9. The Lighthouse - PD James (set in the South of England, I know it's a stretch but I can't think of anything else.)

1. Murder on a Bad Hair Day-Ann George
2. The Empty Copper Sea-McDonald
3. In the Heat of the Night--John Ball
4. Deep South--Nevada Barr
5. Shapespeare's Christmas--Charlaine Harris
6. The King of Lies--John Hart
7.The Blue Edge Of Midnight by Jonathan King
8. Master of the Delta--Thomas H. Cook
9. The Lighthouse - PD James (set in the South of England, I know it's a stretch but I can't think of anything else.)
10 (or 9 in the US?). Them Bones--Carolyn Haines

How about top 10 villians?

1. Hannibal Lecter

1. Hannibal Lecter
2. Professor Moriarity

1. Hannibal Lecter
2. Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luther

1. Hannibal Lecter
2. Professor Moriarity
3. Lex Luther
4. Arnold (I think) Zeck - Rex Stout

(Right you are, Miss Jessie, Arnold Zeck, the only man Nero Wolfe feared)

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck (my favorite Wolfe baddie)
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)
6.Anne (the staircase maid in Busman's Holiday, L. Peter Whimsey)

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck (my favorite Wolfe baddie)
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)
6.Anne (the staircase maid in Busman's Holiday, L. Peter Whimsey)
7.Annie Wilkes

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck (my favorite Wolfe baddie)
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)
6.Anne (the staircase maid in Busman's Holiday, L. Peter Whimsey)
7.Annie Wilkes
8.John Keller -hit man seems foul to me.

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck (my favorite Wolfe baddie)
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)
6.Anne (the staircase maid in Busman's Holiday, L. Peter Whimsey)
7.Annie Wilkes
8.John Keller -hit man seems foul to me.
9. Randall Flagg

1.Hannibal Lecter
2.Professor Moriarity
3.Lex Luthor
4.Arnold Zeck (my favorite Wolfe baddie)
5.Colonel Sebastian Moran (Moriarity's henchman)
6.Anne (the staircase maid in Busman's Holiday, L. Peter Whimsey)
7.Annie Wilkes
8.John Keller -hit man seems foul to me.
9. Randall Flagg
10. Ernst Stavro Blofeld

hmm, 10 European detectives?

1. Maigret

1. Maigret
2. Poirot

10 European detectives

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen
5. Pepe Carvalho Yo maté a Kennedy

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen
5. Miss Marple

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen
5. Pepe Carvalho
6. Miss Marple

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen
5. Pepe Carvalho
6. Miss Marple
7. Auguste Dupin

1. Maigret
2. Poirot
3. Montalbano
4. Aurelio Zen
5. Pepe Carvalho
6. Miss Marple
7. Auguste Dupin
8. Sherlock Holmes

1.Maigret
2.Poirot
3.Montalbano
4.Aurelio Zen
5.Pepe Carvalho
6.Miss Marple
7.August Dupin
8.Sherlock Holmes
9.Martin Beck

1.Maigret
2.Poirot
3.Montalbano
4.Aurelio Zen
5.Pepe Carvalho
6.Miss Marple
7.August Dupin
8.Sherlock Holmes
9.Martin Beck
10.Adam Dalgliesh

How about Romantic Crime Settings?

1. On a sailboat

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express!

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
5. In a felluca (sailboat) on the Nile. Been there, done that, it was wonderful. Alas, in more peaceful times.

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
5. In a felluca (sailboat) on the Nile. Been there, done that, it was wonderful. Alas, in more peaceful times.
6. Gondola in Venice

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
5. In a felluca (sailboat) on the Nile. Been there, done that, it was wonderful. Alas, in more peaceful times.
6. Gondola in Venice
7. Rocky mountains train ride

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
5. In a felluca (sailboat) on the Nile. Been there, done that, it was wonderful. Alas, in more peaceful times.
6. Gondola in Venice
7. Rocky mountains train ride
8. At a ski lodge in the Swiss Alps

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
6. Gondola in Venice
7. Rocky mountains train ride
8. At a ski lodge in the Swiss Alps
9. In the back seat of a convertible at a drivein.

1. On a sailboat
2. The Orient Express
3. On the French Riviera
4. On the Nile
5. Gondola in Venice
6. Rocky mountains train ride
8. At a ski lodge in the Swiss Alps
9. In the back seat of a convertible at a drivein
10.In the penthouse of the Waldorf-Astoria

Ten Female Detectives

1. Cordelia Gray - P.D. James

Ten Female Detectives

1. Cordelia Gray - P.D. James
2. Hannah Wolfe - Sarah Dunant

Ten Female Detectives:

1. Cordelia Gray - P.D. James
2. Hannah Wolfe - Sarah Dunant
3. Kinsey Milhone - Sue Grafton