Quiz Time!

I'm doing something a little different today.  This is a quiz that was used in one of the "Murder, She Wrote" mysteries written by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain.  At the beginning of each chapter, there was a murder mystery question.  Have fun!  The answers are at the bottom of the quiz.

In what Agatha Christie book did her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, make his first appearance?

Which mystery writer features cats in her novels?

The origin of the detective story is generally attributed to what nineteenth century writer?

The characters Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin resided in a brownstone on West Thirty-fifth Street in Manhattan.  Who created them?

Who wrote the hard-boiled detective novel "I, the Jury?"

What British mystery writer also writes psychological crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine?

"The Postman Always Rings Twice" was published in 1934.  Who wrote it?

John Dickson Carr specialized in a certain type of murder mystery plot.  What was it?

The first Shamus Awards were presented at Bouchercon in San Francisco in 1982.  What genre of crime writing do the awards honor?

A certain era is considered to be the "Golden Age" of murder mysteries.  Was it the 1920's through the 1940's?  The 1950's through the 1970's?  Or the 1980's through the mid-1990's?

Those are the first 10 questions.  I'll save the others for a later day.  Below is a list of the answers.  How many did you get right?

Question 1: The Mysterious Affair at Styles  (1920)

Question 2: Lilian Jackson Braun

Question 3: Edgar Allan Poe

Question 4: Rex Stout

Question 5: Mickey Spillane

Question 6: Ruth Rendell

Question 7:  James M. Cain

Question 8:  The locked-room mystery

Question 9: Private eyes

Question 10:  1920's through the 1940's

                                                                                                            Karen Sperra