Kate at Cross Examining Crime hosts a fun mystery cover game on Instagram called Murder Every Monday. Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to display book covers and/or titles from books we own that match the prompts she posts in advance (see link).
This week's prompt is crime fiction with a cover that depicts smoking. Some of the pipes/cigarettes may be a little difficult to see (kind of a "Where's Waldo" in smoking). I could have done a whole post of just Sherlock Holmes books and Holmes pastiches. But--given the size of my collection and the fact that in vintage mysteries it seems that everyone smokes--we really don't seem to want to depict smoking on the covers of my editions. And especially not women--not even the "bad girls."
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Two Bronze Pennies ~Chris Nickson
Treasure Up in Smoke ~David Williams (this week's winner for most bizarre cover)
Death in the Quadrangle ~Eilis Dillon
Holy Disorders ~Edmund Crispin
The Scottish Decision ~Alan Hunter
Blotto, Twinks & the Rodents of the Riviera ~Simon Brett
Case for Sergeant Beef ~Leo Bruce
Twice Dead ~John Buxton Hilton
Murder on Delivery ~Spencer Dean
Inspector West Kicks Off ~John Creasey
Strong Poison ~Dorothy L. Sayers
Death at the Bar ~Ngaio Marsh
The Amazing Adventures of Father Brown ~G. K. Chesterton
The Velvet Fleece ~Lois Eby & John C. Fleming
More Holmes for the Holidays ~Greenberg, Lellenberg & Waugh (eds)
Watson's Choice ~Gladys Mitchell
Why Kill Arthur Potter ~Ray Harrison
A Bullet in the Ballet ~Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon
The Murder League ~Robert L. Fish
Puzzle for Fools ~Patrick Quentin
Innocent Blood ~P. D. James
The Dead Man's Knock ~John Dickson Carr
An African Millionaire ~Grant Allen
What's in the Dark? ~Ellery Queen
The Case of the Untidy Murder (Untidy Murder) ~Frances & Richard Lockridge