My 2024 reading list. Most of them were sort of good, some not so much. The Ugly Chickens was wonderful, and I loved Kreativity for Kats. First Through the Grand Canyon was very interesting; Powell really had what it takes.
01 The Viaduct Murder by Ronald A. Knox
02 The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
03 The Amateur Crime by Anthony Berkeley Cox
04 The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
05 The Secret of Lovers’ Cave by Anthony Berkely Cox
06 Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
07 Sam in the Suburbs by P. G. Wodehouse
08 The Fifth Ace by Usabel Ostrander
09 The 12:30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts
10 Just William by Richmal Crompton
11 Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin Dixon
12 The Shore Road Mystery by Franklin Dixon
13 Captain Shannon by Coulson Kernahan
14 The Clue by Carolyn Wells
15 Ashes to Ashes by Isabel Ostrander
16 Annihilation by Isabel Ostrander
17 The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells
18 Rasberry Jam by Carolyn Wells
19 In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
20 The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton
21 The Great God Gold by William Le Queux
22 Seventeen by Booth Tankington
23 Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy Sayers
24 Messalina of the Suburbs by E. M. Delafield
25 Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells
26 The Liberry by Ian Holm
27 The War-Workers by E. M. Delafield
28 30-Day Wonder by Richard Wilson
29 The Red Planet by William John Locke
30 A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
31 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
32 Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy
33 The Mill House Mystery by Florence Warden
34 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
35 The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne
36 The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
37 A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
38 The Cardboard Box by Arthur Conan Doyle
39 The Lindsays vol. 1 by John Kirkwood Leys
40 The Lindsays vol. 2 by John Kirkwood Leys
41 The Lindsays vol. 3 by John Kirkwood Leys
42 The Adventure of the Red Circle by Arthur Conan Doyle
43 Uncle Dynamite by P. G. Wodehouse
44 More William by Richmal Crompton
45 Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley
46 An Assassination on the Agenda by T. E. Kinsey
47 The Alien Intelligence by Jack Williamson
48 The Mystery of the Inn by the Shore by Florence Warden
49 Still William by Richmal Crompton
50 The Boy Who Never Lost a Chance by Annette Lyster
51 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
52 The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix
53 The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre
54 Adventures of Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
55 Kathleen in Ireland by McDonald & Dalrymple
56 William Again by Richmal Crompton
57 Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber
58 William the Fourth by Richmal Crompton
59 William the Outlaw by Richmal Crompton
60 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
61 The Moving Finger by Natlie Summer Lincoln
62 Arsene Lupin, Super Sleuth by Maurice Leblanc
63 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
64 Beau Geste by Percival C. Wren
65 Cupid in Africa by Percival C. Wren
66 The Treasury of Ancient Egypt by Arthur Weigall
67 The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
68 In True Face by Jonna Mendez
69 The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton
70 Captain Horn by Frank Stockton
71 The Eyes of Innocence by Maurice Leblanc
72 First Through the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell
73 Cole of Spyglass Mountain by Arthur Preston Hankins
74 Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
75 Scrambled Eggs by Lawton Mackall
76 Adobe Days by Sarah Bixby Smith
77 The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop
78 Aunt Olive in Bohemia by Leslie Moore
79 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
80 The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
You've been a busy guy. I could not begin to compile a list like that, except for the very great ones. One of my favorites that I was describing to someone recently was Two Years Before the Mast. Very memorable and thought provoking.
Didn't Franklin Dixon write The Hardy Boys series?
Franklin W. Dixon was a corporate pen name and many authors wrote the Hardy Boys books. Same with Carolyn Keene for Nancy Drew, and probably other series.
I have a copy of one of the brown cloth cover edition Hardy Boys books. Let's just say that its content would not be published in today's environment, and a lot of re-write has gone on through the various editions. For example the younger teen brother is carrying a pistol at one point and fires in the direction of what he things are bad guys without really seeing a target.