Crime Fiction Alphabet: the summary U - Z

This year's edition of the Crime Fiction Alphabet is now completed and this week I've published four summary posts. Many thanks to all the participants!

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 for U-Z. The summary list for the 26 weeks: Crime Fiction Alphabet
Already published

• the A-G lists.
• the H-M lists
• the N-T lists

Letter U

1. Mysteries and More ("U" is for Arthur Upfield 2. Margaret@BooksPlease - Nicola Upson 3. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Unseen by Nancy Bush 4. The Game's Afoot - U is for Unamuno, Miguel de Unamuno

5. Bev@My Reader's Block (Arthur W Upfield) 6. U is for 3 books by Marie Jungstedt (kerrie) 7. Yvette @ in so many words... 8. Tipping My Fedora: U is for UNNATURAL DEATH by Dorothy L Sayers

9. Mystery Bookshelf (Lisa Unger) 10. FleurFisher (U is for Unburied)

Letter V

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - The Visitant by K. O. Gear and W. M. Gear 2. Mysteries and More (Voodoo River by Robert Crais) 3. Margaret@BooksPlease - Val McDermid:Cleanskin 4. The Game's Afoot - V is for Villar, Domingo Villar

5. Bernadette - V is for Victoria (the bit of Australia not the Queen) 6. Tipping My Fedora: V is for THE VIKING FUNERAL by Stephen J. Cannell 7. MiP: V is for Vargas 8. Bev@My Reader's Block (Voyage into Violence)

9. Tipping My Fedora: V is for SOLOMON'S VINEYARD by Jonathan Latimer 10. Yvette@ in so many words...V is for VERSE OF THE VAMPYRE 11. Violette (Brenda Rickman Vantrease) 12. Crime Watch - V is for Vanda

Letter W

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - What Bloody Man is That? by Simon Brett 2. Mysteries and More ("W" is for Who is Inger Ash Wolfe?) 3. Craig - W is for THE WINDSOR CONSPIRACY by Kiwi/Aussie author Mike Ponder 4. Margaret@BooksPlease - The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell 5. The Game's Afoot - W is for Wahlöö, Per Wahlöö

6. Bernadette - W is for Walking the Dog 7. MiP- THE WRECKAGE, Michael Robotham 8. FleurFisher (W is for Written in Blood) 9. ISOT Classic Mystery - The Worm of Death by Nicholas Blake 10. Dorte: W is for the Whole Wide World

11. Tipping My Fedora: W is for WOBBLE TO DEATH by Peter Lovesey 12. Mystery Bookshelf (Heather Webber) 13. Bev@My Reader's Block (Patricia Wentworth) 14. Yvette @ in so many words...Letter W is for THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE

Letter X

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - X is for Xenophobia 2. Bev@My Reader's Block (Ye Xin) 3. Mysteries and More ("X" is for Qui Xiaolong) 4. Margaret@BooksPlease - X is for X, Y, Z by Anna Katherine Green 5. Crime Watch - X is for (IN) XTREMIS by David McGill 6. The Game's Afoot - X is for Xiaolong

7. Dorte: X is for XL 8. MiP - Suspect X 9. FleurFisher (The Expendable Man) 10. Mystery Bookshelf (Xiu Xinran) 11. Mysteries and More ("X" is for Xiaolong's Death of a Red Heroine 12. Yvette @ in so many words - X is for Xenobiotic

13. Mysteries and More ("X" is for Qui Xiaolong's A Case for Two Cities 14. Tipping My Fedora: X is for X v. REX by Philip MacDonald 15. ISOT Classic Mystery - The Tragedy of X by Barnaby Ross 16. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Speak For the Dead by Margaret Yorke 17. Violette@Mystery Bookshelf (Suzanne Young)

Letter Y

1. Tipping My Fedora: Y is for … YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT by Bill Jame 2. Bev@My Reader's Block (Joyce Yarrow) 3. Margaret@BooksPlease - Margaret Yorke, Intimate Kill 4. The Game's Afoot - Y is for Yrsa, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

5. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Speak For the Dead by Margaret Yorke 6. Crime Watch - Y is for Yvonne E. Walus's MURDER @ PLAY 7. Mysteries and More (Bone Valley by Claire Matturro) 8. FleurFisher ( Y is for You are a Gongedip !)

9. Crime Watch - Forever young or aging (un)gracefully 10. MiP - Y is for Australian author Felicity Young 11. Dorte: Y is for Youngsters

Letter Z

1. Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Z is for Ziti and Other Delicious Food 2. The Game's Afoot - Z is for Zeltserman, Dave Zeltsermanttir 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) 4. Mysteries and More ("Z" is for Mark Zuehlke) 5. Margaret@BooksPlease - Z is for Zouroudi

6. Crime Watch - Z is for Zirk Van Den Berg's NOBODY DIES 7. FleurFisher - Z is for Zouroudi 8. Bernadette - Z is for Zeitgeist 9. Dorte: Z is for Zed Alley # 1 10. Tipping My Fedora: Z is for Michael Bar-Zohar's THE THIRD TRUTH

11. MiP - ASHES TO WATER, Irene Ziegler 12. Yvette - Letter Z is for ZUGZWANG 13. Tipping My Fedora: Z is for Fred Zackel's COCAINE AND BLUE EYES