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More literary trivia coming soon. Meanwhile, check your answers below, then continue to the next page to see how you scored.
Answers to Part Twenty-Two •
106. The Busted Flush was named in tribute to the winning poker hand that made it McGee’s property.
107. Holmes maintains numerous bolt-holes throughout London; this one is hidden within the bowels of a department store.
108. Mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, who scatters apple cores around her much as she strews corpses throughout her books, is Christie’s tongue-in-cheek self-portrait. “What really matters is plenty of bodies!” the forthright Mrs. O declares in Cards on the Table. “If the thing’s getting a little dull, some more blood cheers it up.”
109. Sue Grafton’s detective, who worked her way through 25 letters of the alphabet before her creator’s death, loves peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (shudder).
110. With a roster of luminaries from Margery Allingham to Patricia Wentworth, the decade of the 1930s (plus a few years on either side) lays claim to this title.
