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Mystery Scene Quiz

Bestsellers!
This week we're asking questions about bestsellers, so everyone has a chance to do well. What do you know about the most popular mystery writers and their books?

Q1: Who is the best-selling mystery novelist of all time?
(a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(b) James Patterson
(c) Agatha Christie
(d) Lawrence Block

Q2: Before 1970, who was the best-selling mystery novelist of all time?
(a) Agatha Christie
(b) Erle Stanley Gardner
(c) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(d) Raymond Chandler

Q3: Which of these was Sue Grafton's first novel?
(a) The Lolly Madonna War
(b) A is for Alibi
(c) The Maltese Falcon
(d) Keziah Dane

Q4: This mystery has sold the most copies since the year 2000:
(a) R is for Ricochet
(b) The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(c) An Instance of the Fingerpost
(d) The Da Vinci Code

Q5: Despite the mystery's beginnings with Edgar Allan Poe, English novelists dominated the form for the first several decades of the genre's existence. Who was the first best-selling American mystery novelist?
(a) S.S. Van Dine
(b) Dashiell Hammett
(c) Ellery Queen
(d) Craig Rice