So, how far over the edge have we gone?? Can any of you possibly be up for still another reading challenge? Well, It has been requested that we try another mini-historical mystery challenge, so, after losing a boat load of guests here for the past 10 days, I have tried to put one together. In this one, for those of you interested, we can duplicate books between challenges and read alongs from this forum. Here goes:

Choose 4 books from the following categories:

1.) All Locked Up - any book involving the imprisonment of one of the characters.

2.) The King's Progress - any book which involves a mystery while traveling.

3.) A Little Help From My Friends - any book in which the protagonist gets some assistance in handling the case from another party.

4.) Double, Double, Toil and Trouble - any book which has a supernatural element to it.

5.) Just Hangin' Around - any book which involves the gallows in some way.

6.) The Benefits of a Higher Education - any book in which a university is involved - or a scholar.

7.) Plague, Poison or Pox? - any book which involves any of these potential threats to life.

8.) This Could Be the Start of Something Grand - The first book in a mystery series that intrigues you.

Pick 4 of the above and get ready to do some sleuthing!!

We can use this thread for discussions and I will create another for LISTS ONLY.

Those are excellent categories Jeanne I am IN!!!!  YAY!!!

Now this is my kind of Challenge, lol!!

Is this just for the month of March?

Nope, Polbio - it is the yearly one! Shoot  - have I started a precedent here???

Great categories!  Well done Jeanne!!

Heck, what's one more challenge.  Interesting categories Jeanne!

Oh, polbio, you could make the Arianna Franklin books fit into this category, I bet!  I loved the series.

Great job on the categories, Fabulous Jeanne!  I didn't do the mystery one last year, but I have some HF mystery on my shelf, so I may give it a try.

Oooh, I'm glad that you all are happy with the categories! Don't know if this mind could come up with any more than those, but I have to say that that part of it is a lot of fun!

THANKS JEANNE,

Thank you for starting this thread. This is my fav genre, so I am ready for this one!!!

Mary

Woo-Hoo! I am so in! I have sevral historical mysteries that I have really been wanting to read, now is my chance!

I love the categories!! Now, I'm so glad I never got around to read Bernard Cornwell's book "Gallows Thief". I have a copy though and it will be perfect for category number 5 - Just Hangin' Around. Oh, wait, this category might be just the excuse I need to buy Karen Maitland's newest, "The Gallows Curse". It sounds so good!

Number 7 - Plague, Poison, or Pox is intriguing too. I wish I hadn't already read Sara Poole's book, "Poison" because it would be perfect here. She does have a sequel coming out this year though...

I really like number 4 too. I've been craving fantasy books lately and I'm sure I can find a great one to fit here...

This is going to be fun!! Thanks, Jeanne!

I think I am going to read a book for each category, simply because I think they all sound great and I can't choose just four! I might need some help figuring out a book for some of them though. I can't think of a single thing for the university one...I'm sure I will find something good!

Valli, I am going to read A Trail Of Ink for the higher learning Category.

I know I can find one for each category also  (and more than likely already on my TBR shelves) and since i only joined two other challenges this year, I might even get it done, lol.

Valli, I just got my first two Bernard Conrwell books, Agincourt and Rebel.

Valli - a couple of suggestions for category 6 - if you're interested:

Heresy by S J Parris - much involvement of  Lincoln college at Oxford

Henry Gresham books - he used much of his inheritance to refound Granville College at Cambridge.

I'll keep thinking on this....

Oh! and then there's The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard - West Point in 1830 - I think this is the one that I will use.

I'm in!  Maybe I can whittle down that TBR pile a little more.

Oh Jeanne Dear,  Would this work for the paranormal category?

Yes, Letty, that book sounds like it would work fine! Sounds good too!

Thank you!

Thanks! I think I will go with the the Gresham book.

Letty, I just looked up Melvin Starr's books and they sound gooood...

Valli they are!

Woohoo! 9 fellow HF members are signed up so far and it looks like we have yet another challenge going!! We must be out of our minds.

 Where the heck is Deb? I thought sure that she would be testing my limits with a gazillion questions about what she can and can't do here. She's probably out shopping for a kindle/nook/ Kobo/bazooka or whatever!!

 Where the heck is Deb? I thought sure that she would be testing my limits with a gazillion questions about what she can and can't do here. She's probably out shopping for a kindle/nook/ Kobo/bazooka or whatever!!

LOL!! I'm here -- repeating to myself, "no challenges, no challenges, no challenges...."  Umm...a bazooka...now there's a nifty idea!

We must be out of our minds.

Yes -- you are.

SOOOOO - Are you going to join us Deb, or what!!!