Hannah Jane Parkinson 

Quiz: Can you identify these classic crime novels by their covers?

You proved up to the challenge of spotting science fiction book covers. But how much can you help us with these enquiries?
  
  


  1. Who wears these spectacles?

    1. Mr JG Reeder Returns – Edgar Wallace

    2. The Madman of Bergerac – Georges Simenon

    3. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

    4. Send for Paul Temple – Francis Durbridge

  2. This suspicious character is from which crime novel?

    1. The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton

    2. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

    3. Fatherland – Robert Harris

    4. Hombre – Elmore Leonard

  3. Who is this?

    1. The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey

    2. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

    3. The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope

    4. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

  4. This book jacket belongs to which book?

    1. Deception – Jonathan Kellerman

    2. A Taste for Death – PD James

    3. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

    4. LA Confidential – James Ellroy

  5. Can you recognise this famous character?

    1. The Hollow Man – John Dickson Carr

    2. Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock – HRF. Keating

    3. The Stories of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

    4. The Case of the Phantom Fortune – Mr. Erle Stanley Gardner

  6. Which classic story of murder is this?

    1. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers

    2. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

    3. Plain Murder – CS Forester

    4. The Eye of the Beholder – Marc Behm

  7. Pick your suspect here

    1. Swag – Elmore Leonard

    2. Cinnamon Kiss – Walter Mosley

    3. What It Was – George Pelecanos

    4. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M Cain

  8. Which book is this?

    1. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

    2. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

    3. From Russia, with Love – Ian Fleming

    4. The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth

  9. Can you identify this cover?

    1. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

    2. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

    3. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

    4. Home Sweet Homicide – Craig Rice

  10. Which classic is this?

    1. True Grit – Charles Portis

    2. Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith

    3. A Time to Kill – John Grisham

    4. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

Solutions

1:C, 2:B, 3:B, 4:D, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:B, 9:A, 10:D

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Awful. Your answers an appalling crime scene in themselves

  2. 3 and above.

    A lot of missed clues. Unsolved!

  3. 6 and above.

    You've got a good nose for these, but you're not yet a master detective. More test required for a conclusive verdict

  4. 9 and above.

    Case closed! You're a regular Sherlock Holmes!

 

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