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FMK #38: History Mysteries
Also, I missed that the last poll was the one-year anniversary of FMK! Folks, I have been doing this since last February, and with that in mind, it's not that bad that I only have 18 still in the backlog to read. Right? Right. (It also means that if I'd managed a poll a week, as originally planned, we would now be done! Instead there are about three months' worth left. Oops.)
(I am considering what to do if I finish this. Options include: stop already; start over again with the Ms; poll one section of the Dewey Decimal System a week in my 1200 NF unreads; or read & review all my unread comics, which would probably not require voting because there's only a couple hundred of them and they read fast.)
Anyway, since I finally finished the cat mysteries books, it's time for Mysteries 2: History Mysteries!
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby (Republican Athens)
The Pendragon Murders by J. M. C. Blair (Arthurian Britain)
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Buti zhuanren trans. Gulik (Tang China)
The Doublet Affair by Fiona Buckley (Elizabethan England)
Consolation for an Exile by Caroline Roe (medieval Spain)
Three Victorian Detective Novels by Wilkie Collins, Israel Zangwill, Everett Bleiler (Victorian England)
The Novel Currently Known As "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1930s England)
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy Sayers (1930s England)
The Floating Admiral by Sayers, Christie, Chesterton, etc (this was a round robin, 1930s England)
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett (1930s USA)
The Black Gloves by Constance and Gwyneth Little (1930s USA)
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn (1950s USA)
Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley (1960s USA)
The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelazny (1960s Americas) by K. M. O'Donnell (Ace Double)
Queens Full by Ellery Queen (short stories, mid-20th century USA)
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