Crime Fiction Alphabet - Summarising the letter Q

The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme.

The letter for the week beginning 8 February was the Letter Q

The letter had loomed in contributor's minds for some weeks and many were obviously concerned that they would not be able to rise to the challenge.
But in the end it was a bit of a false alarm, although yours truly did a bit of lateral thinking.

It appears though that some participants may have used their letter X trump card!

10 contributors this week - and more really good books to add to your shopping list!
Ellery Queen made a couple of appearances as did Qiu Xiaolog.

Tomorrow, 15 February, we will be featuring the letter R, which given the depth of knowledge shown by our contributors should cause no problems at all.

And then we will have 8 more letters to come.

If you read and write about crime fiction, we'd love to have your contribution. It is really very easy - just write a post on your blog about a crime fiction writer or book where the author's first or last name or the title of the book begins with the letter Q, and then come in to tomorrow's post and put the URL of your post into Mr Linky.

Contributions for the letter Q:

• Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Calamity Town by Ellery Queen  - Margot
• gautami tripathy-Q is for Ellery Queen - Gautami Tripathy
• Crime Watch - Q is for Qiu Xiaolong - Craig
• Reactions to Reading - Q is for Quantico by Greg Bear - Bernadette
• Books Please - Q is for Quintin Jardine - Margaret
• Mysteries in Paradise - Q is for Harley Quin - Kerrie
• DJsKrimiblog, Q for Quentin - Dorte
• Petrona - Sheila Quigley - Maxine
• Crime Scraps-Q is for Qiu Xialong - Norman
• raidergirl3 (Kwei Quartey)

See other letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P