Tuesday, April 1, 2014

April Fool's Day Crime Fiction/ April Fool's Day Myteries

April Fool's Day Mysteries: I love holidays--any chance to celebrate--and that's not an April Fool's joke. Here's a short list full of foolishness and not so foolish mystery and murder! As always, let me know if I've forgotten a title!

The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.

--Poor Robin's Almanac, 1790
 


APRIL FOOL'S DAY CRIME FICTION


The Case of the April Fools by Christopher Bush
April's Fool by Edna May Ciesclwicz 
April Fool by William Deverell 
The April Fool by Robert J. Fields
April Fools’ Day Murder by Lee Harris
April Fool Dead by Carolyn Hart 
A Remarkable Case of Burglary by H. R. F. Keating
April Fool’s Day A Novel by Josip Novakovich (not quite a mystery but with mystery elements)
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
April Fool's Day by Jeff Rovin

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 3: The April Fool’s Day Adventure and The Strange Adventure of the Uneasy Easy Chair by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green.

YA: The April Fool's Day Mystery by Marion Markham

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I love this Janet. If you've missed any I'm not aware. Seems like this amazing list should be used somewhere, too late for this year, maybe next. Hmm, I've got some time to think about it.

Marina Sofia said...

What a wonderful idea - never saw such a list before!