Result of First WIN BOOK PRIZES comp which closed on 31st January 2012.

1. Agatha Christie wrote a novel titled THE LADY IN THE LIBRARY.  True or False?

2. American crime author Joseph Hansen writes about an investigator named DAVE.  True or False?

3.  The Postman Only Rings When He Can Be Bothered is a short story by Peter Guttridge.  True or False?

  The answers are 1. FALSE.  2. TRUE.  3.TRUE.

A total of 86 correct entries were received and 20 incorrect ones. Question 3 caught a lot out. The seven winners are: Rachel Wickerson, Kent;  Jane Hope, Exeter;  Elizabeth Smith, Norwich;  Maggie Lloyd(Maggie, I need your address); 

Steve Little, Harrow, Middx; Amanda Richardson, Manchester; Ali Thorpe, Colchester. 

 

  The Second WIN BOOK PRIZES Competition is as follows.

There are three questions to be answered. Free entry to everybody. One entry per household. Put your answers next to the question number and submit in the body of an email (NO ATTACHMENTS) or you can enter by post. Just give your name and city or county. Winners will be contacted by email for their postal addresses. Those outside the UK can just give their country. Or you can submit your answers on your cover sheet if you are sending a story. Email your entries to edwardjohnwalsh@hotmail.com and put WIN BOOK PRIZES in the subject box. Each of the first eight all correct entries drawn will win a paperack crime novel and the first drawn also gets a crisp five pound(or euro) note. In addition all winners who have indicated with their entries how they heard of the comp will receive a second class stamp. Closing date is 15th April 2012.

 

1.  Ed McBain/Evan Hunter wrote a short story "But You Know Us." What is the six letter last word?

2.  Sparrow Flyways ia an airline in a novel written by which prolific female american crime writer?

3.  What is the name of the MP in an Ian Rankin novel whose constituency is the ficticious North and South Esk?

Feb 23rd update: Four correct entries received to date.