OK, so all six outstanding final bingos are riding on the three squares yet to be called, with “Classic Horror” a guaranteed multiple bingo and the other two squares potential ones. Only one of the as-yet outstanding square calls is not on my card. “Real” blackout will thus tumble in either on Oct. 29 or Oct. 31, depending when the final square that I don’t have is going to be called.
My Square Markers and “Virgin” Bingo Card:
“Virgin” card posted for ease of tracking and comparison.
Black Kitty:
Read but not called
Black Vignette:
Called but not read
Black Kitty in Black Vignette:
Read and Called
Black Kitty Center Square: (Read = Called)
Current Status of Spreadsheet:
(Note: Physical print editions unless stated otherwise)
Books Read / Listened to:
Final Book Read:
Sharyn McCrumb: She Walks These Hills
Books Read / Listened to – Update 1:
Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites
Wilkie Collins: Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
(Gillian Anderson audio)
Martin Edwards / British Library:
Miraculous Mysteries – Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes
Agatha Christie: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead
(Hugh Fraser audio)
Books Read / Listened to – Update 2:
Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings
Ruth Rendell:
The Babes in the Wood
& Not in the Flesh
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Cornell Woolrich: The Bride Wore Black
Raymond Chandler:
Farewell, My Lovely
The Long Goodbye
The High Window
Books Read / Listened to – Update 3:
Martin Edwards: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
(Prunella Scales & Samuel West audio)
Simon Brett: An Amateur Corpse 
The Medieval Murderers: House of Shadows
Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
(Bernadette Dunne audio)
Murder Most Foul (Anthology)
Edgar Allan Poe: The Dupin Stories — The Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Mystery of Marie Rogêt / The Purloined Letter
(Kerry Shale audio)
Agatha Christie: Endless Night
(BBC full cast dramatization)
Dick Francis: Knockdown (Tim Pigott-Smith audio)
Ngaio Marsh:
Artists in Crime (Benedict Cumberbatch audio)
Overture to Death (Anton Lesser audio)
Death and the Dancing Footman (Anton Lesser audio)
Surfet of Lampreys (Anton Lesser audio)
Opening Night (aka Night at the Vulcan) (Anton Lesser audio)
Books Read / Listened to – Update 4:
James D. Doss: Grandmother Spider
Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms
Ovid: Metamorphoses
(German / Latin parallel print edition and David Horovitch audio)
Apollodorus: Library of Greek Mythology
Plutarch: Life of Theseus
Books Read / Listened to – Updates 5 & 6:
C.S. Forester: The African Queen
Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley
(David Thorpe audio)
Jo Nesbø: The Snowman
Books Read / Finished – Update 7:
Antonia Hodgson: The Devil in the Marshalsea
Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada
(Chronicle of a Death Foretold)
Peter May: Coffin Road
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
First Bingo (Update 3 — Sept. 23, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Second Bingo (Update 5 — Oct. 7, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Third Bingo (Update 7 – Oct. 16, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Fourth Bingo (Update 7 – Oct. 16, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Fifth Bingo (Update 8 – Oct. 18, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Sixth Bingo (Update 9 – Oct. 19, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
Seventh Bingo (Update 9 – Oct. 19, 2017): Squares and Books Read:
The Book Pool:
Most likely: Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings
Alternatively:
* Diane Mott Davidson: Catering to Nobody
* One or more stories from Martin Greenberg’s and Ed Gorman’s (eds.)
Cat Crimes
* … or something by Lilian Jackson Braun
Most likely: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
(audio return visit courtesy of either Michael Kitchen or Prunella Scales and Samuel West)
Alternatively:
* Wilkie Collins: The Woman In White
(audio version read by Nigel Anthony and Susan Jameson)
* Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
(audio return visit courtesy of Anna Massey)
* Isak Dinesen: Seven Gothic Tales
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* … or something by Daphne du Maurier
Candace Robb: The Apothecary Rose
Change of plan:
C.S. Forester: The African Queen
Most likely: Simon Brett: A book from a four-novel omnibus edition including An Amateur Corpse, Star Trap, So Much Blood, and Cast, in Order of Disappearance
Alternatively:
* Georgette Heyer: Why Shoot a Butler?
* Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley
(audio version read by David Thorpe)
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* Minette Walters: The Shape of Snakes
Most likely: Something from James D. Doss‘s Charlie Moon series (one of my great discoveries from last year’s bingo)
Or one of Walter Mosley‘s Easy Rawlins mysteries
Alternatively:
Sherman Alexie: Indian Killer
Terry Pratchett: Carpe Jugulum
Change of Plan:
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
One or more stories from Martin Edwards’s (ed.) and the British Library’s Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes
Most likely: Agatha Christie: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead
(audio return visit courtesy of Hugh Fraser)
Or one or more stories from Martin Edwards’s (ed.) and the British Library’s Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes
Alternatively:
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* Josephine Tey: Brat Farrar, To Love and Be Wise, or The Singing Sands
* Georgette Heyer: Why Shoot a Butler?
* Peter May: The Lewis Man
* S.D. Sykes: Plague Land
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Mystery of Cloomber
* Michael Jecks: The Devil’s Acolyte
* Stephen Booth: Dancing with the Virgins
* Karen Maitland: The Owl Killers
* Martha Grimes: The End of the Pier
* Minette Walters: The Breaker
One of two “Joker” Squares:
To be filled in as my whimsy takes me (with apologies to Dorothy L. Sayers), either with one of the other mystery squares’ alternate books, or with a murder mystery that doesn’t meet any of the more specific squares’ requirements. In going through my shelves, I found to my shame that I own several bingo cards’ worth of books that would fill this square alone, some of them bought years ago … clearly something needs to be done about that, even if it’s one book at a time!
Isabel Allende: Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna) or
Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)
Most likely: One or more stories from Charles Dickens: Complete Ghost Stories or Sharyn McCrumb: She Walks These Hills
Alternatively:
* Wilkie Collins: Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
(Gillian Anderson audio)
* Stephen King: Bag of Bones
Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms
Obviously and as per definition in the rules, the second “Joker” Square.
Equally as per definition, the possibles for this square also include my alternate reads for the non-mystery squares.
Most likely: Cornell Woolrich: The Bride Wore Black
Alternatively:
* Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely or The Long Goodbye / The High Window
* James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
* Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
* David Goodis: Shoot the Piano Player or Dark Passage
* … or something else by Cornell Woolrich, e.g., Phantom Lady or I Married a Dead Man
Most likely: Ruth Rendell: Not in the Flesh or The Babes in the Wood (audio versions read by Christopher Ravenscroft, aka Inspector Burden in the TV series)
Alternatively:
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* Sharyn McCrumb: She Walks These Hills
Most likely: Peter May: Coffin Road
Alternatively:
* Stephen King: Bag of Bones or Hearts in Atlantis
* Denise Mina: Field of Blood
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* Minette Walters: The Breaker
* Jonathan Kellerman: When The Bough Breaks, Time Bomb, Blood Test, or Billy Straight
* Greg Iles: 24 Hours
Most likely: Sharyn McCrumb: She Walks These Hills
Alternatively:
* Karen Maitland: The Owl Killers
* Greg Iles: Sleep No More
Most likely: Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley
(audio version read by David Thorpe)
Alternatively:
* One or more stories from Martin Edwards’s (ed.) and the British Library’s Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries
* Georgette Heyer: They Found Him Dead
* Ellis Peters: Black is the Colour of My True-Love’s Heart
Most likely: Something from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld / Witches subseries — either Equal Rites or Maskerade
Alternatively:
* Karen Maitland: The Owl Killers
* Shirley Jackson: The Witchcraft of Salem Village
Most likely: Antonia Hodgson: The Devil in the Marshalsea
Alternatively:
* Rory Clements: Martyr
* Philip Gooden: Sleep of Death
* Minette Walters: The Shape of Snakes
* Ngaio Marsh: Death in Ecstasy
* One or more stories from Martin Edwards’s (ed.) and the British Library’s Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
Most likely: Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (audio return visit courtesy of Sir Christopher Lee)
Alternatively:
* H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
* … or something by Edgar Allan Poe
Most likely: Something from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Alternatively:
* Robert Louis Stevenson: The Bottle Imp
* Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market
* H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
Most likely: Jo Nesbø: The Snowman
Alternatively:
* Val McDermid: The Retribution
* Denise Mina: Sanctum
* Mo Hayder: Birdman
* Caleb Carr: The Alienist
* Jonathan Kellerman: The Butcher’s Theater
* Greg Iles: Mortal Fear
Most likely: The Medieval Murderers: House of Shadows
or Hill of Bones
Alternatively:
* Sharyn McCrumb: She Walks These Hills
* Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
* Stephen King: Bag of Bones
* Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
* Michael Jecks: The Devil’s Acolyte
Ooohhh, you know — something by Shirley Jackson … if I don’t wimp out in the end; otherwise something by Daphne du Maurier.
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