Crime Fiction Alphabet: the summary A-G

This year's edition of the Crime Fiction Alphabet is now completed and this week I'll publish four summary posts .

By Friday of each week participants had to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week which was displayed each Monday.
[Those who intended to participate regularly signed up here.]

Their post had to be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname. There was lots of choice: a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fitted the rules  somehow. Sometimes participants interpreted the rules very laterally, particularly with "difficult" letters.

We used Mr Linky to display participants' posts, and in most weeks there were 12 to 16 participants.

Below are the Mr Linky links. The summary list for the 26 weeks: Crime Fiction Alphabet

Letter A

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist: About Face by Donna Leon 2. Bev@My Readers Block (And Then There Were None) 3. FleurFisher (The ABC Murders) 4. Lynossa @DerangedBookLovers (And Then There Were None) 5. Margaret @ BooksPlease (Agatha: An Autobiography 6. The Game's Afoot: Arriaga, Guillermo

7. gautami tripathy (An Expert in Murder) 8. Jenn @ for love of lovely words - A is for Agatha 9. MiP-A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE, Malla Nunn 10. raidergirl3(Alexander McCall Smith) 11. Mysterious Mutterings - A LILY OF THE FIELD, John Lawton 12. Reactions to Reading - A is for Archaeology

13. Dorte: A is for Ancestors 14. Violette (Matilde Asensi) 15. Crystal (author, Ginny Aiken) 16. Craig (Crime Watch): A is for Andrea Jutson

Letter B

1. Confessions of a Myst. Novelist - Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander M. Smith 2. MiP-BAD INTENTIONS, Karin Fossum 3. Rebecca (the book frog) - The Librarian by Larry Beinhart 4. Bev@My Readers Block (Robert Barnard) 5. Bernadette - B is for Bibliophiles 6. Margaret @ BooksPlease - W J Burley

7. The Game's Afoot: Bauer, Belinda 8. Dorte: B is for Blood 9. gautami tripathy--B is for Larry Bond 10. FleurFisher (B is for Bolitho) 11. Jenn @ for love of lovely words - The Beekeeper's Apprentice 12. in so many words - B for author Bruce Alexander

13. Crystal @ My Reading Room - Terri Blackstock 14. Lynossa: B is Bourne 15. Violette (Bi Feiyu) 16. Craig (Crime Watch) - BLOOD BOND, BOLD BLOOD, and BLOOD MEN

Letter C

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie 2. Bev@My Reader's Block (The Casino Murder Case) 3. MiP-Carter, Alan - PRIME CUT 4. gautami tripathy--C is for Constant Gardener 5. Bernadette - C is for Clergy

6. FleurFisher (C is for Crombie) 7. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Christopher Brookmyre 8. The Game's Afoot: Cueto, Alonso 9. Dorte: C should be for Crime... 10. In So Many Words : Robert Crais

11. Craig (Crime Watch) - C is for CUT & RUN 12. Lynossa: C for Conan Doyle 13. Jenn (Cards On The Table) 14. raidergirl3(Cocaine Blues)

Letter D

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - My 3D Post ;-) 2. Crime Watch (Craig) - DIVE DEEP FOR DEATH 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Carter Dickson) 4. Margaret@BooksPlease - Colin Dexter 5. gautami tripathy--D is for Dantes' Inferno 6. MiP- DEATH ON THE NILE, Agatha Christie

7. The Game's Afoot: Leif Davidsen 8. FleurFisher (D is for Darkside) 9. Bernadette - D is for Dogs 10. DJ's Krimiblog- D is for Detectives 11. Yvette - D is for Nancy Drew / The Dana Girls 12. Mysterious Mutterings- DEATH IN THE MARAIS

13. My Beloved Books - D is for DEADLY DANCE 14. raidergirl3(Death in La Fenice) 15. Violette (PC Doherty) 16. Jenn @ for love of lovely words - Dumb Witness

Letter E

1. FleurFisher (E is for Ethel Lina White) 2. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Evanly Bodies by Rhys Bowen 3. Margaret@BooksPlease - Edgar Wallace 4. E is for ECHOES IN THE BLUE (Craig - Crime Watch)

5. gautami tripathy--E is for Eisler 6. Bev@My Reader's Block (Margaret Erskine) 7. The Game's Afoot - E is for Ellory 8. Dorte: E is for Electronic Pleasures

9. MiP-END IN TEARS, Ruth Rendell 10. Bernadette - E is for Environment 11. raidergirl3(Martin Edwards)

Letter F

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - The Four of Hearts by Ellery Queen 2. F is for FRIENDLY FIRE by Michael Wall (Craig - Crime Watch) 3. MiP-FROZEN TRACKS, Ake Edwardson 4. Bev@My Reader's Block (Charles Finch-The Fleet Street Murders)

5. Margaret@BooksPlease - Frances Fyfield-The Art of Drowning 6. Bernadette - F is for France 7. The Game's Afoot - F is for Fuentes 8. Dorte: F is for Flash Fiction

9. FleurFisher (F is for Five Little Pigs) 10. cavershamragu - F is for Fredric Brown 11. In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel - The Finishing Stroke by Ellery Queen 12. Yvette / F is for Free Fall by Robt. Crais

Letter G

1. Margot Kinberg - The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 2. Fleur Fisher (G is for Glaspell) 3. MiP-D-E-D DEAD! Geoffrey McGeachin 4. Bernadette - G is for Genealogists 5. raidergirl3(Leighton Gage)

6. Bev@My Reader's Block (Anna Katharine Green) 7. The Game's Afoot - G is for Gimenez Bartlett, Alicia 8. Dorte: G is for Girl-Power 9. Margaret@BooksPlease - Erle Stanley Gardner 10. Tipping My Fedora: G is for The Galton Case

11. Yvette@in so many words- THE BOOK OF AIR & SHADOWS, Michael Gruber 12. Gaelyn Gordon's DEADLINES (Craig - Crime Watch) 13. Violette@Mystery Bookshelf - Tess Gerritsen 14. ISOT Classic Mystery Novel - The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell 15. Mysteries and More - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore