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Let's Play: How To Make An Ominous-Sounding Mystery Title
Mainstream mystery titles have the uncanny ability to turn the ordinary into the ominous. Like a macabre version of Mad Libs, sometimes all a title needs is a combination of a person and a place to achieve maximum foreboding. The Body in the Library, The Couple Next Door, and The Woman in the Window are all prime examples of this. And if you want to turn the terror up a notch, you can never go wrong with adding the word "girl" to let readers know that trouble isn't too far away.
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
What's your bestselling mystery title? Share it with us in the comments!
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
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I got: The Stalker on the Cruise Ship.Out on the water, "accidents" can and will happen.
Evil in the Broom Closet . . . Which is awesome, b/c broom closets have always freaked me out. 😱
The woman in the Parking Garage se me ocurren varias cosas con ese título, creo que podría funcionar :)
Death at the Botanical Garden... someone needs to write this for me.
The Devil at the market's farmer (Probably not a read I would pick if that was a real book hahaha)
Death in the Abandoned Theme Park.. hahahaha, uh oh
Amparo wrote: "The Devil at the Two-Star Hotel"Me too!!!!
The Stranger in the Wardrobe Sounds like a book about a crime of passion 😂😂
The woman at the car wash.... worst novel ever written haha
I feel like 'Evil on the Fire Escape' wouldn't become a bestseller. It actually reminds me of a really bad headline in a newspaper. Right next to an article called 'Why your neighbours are more dangerous than you think' or something ridiculous like that ;)
The Shadow in the 2 Star HotelHonestly isn't too bad
Death in the Meat Locker (because who wants the live chickens in there).
Denise wrote: "The Stranger in the Wardrobe Sounds like a book about a crime of passion 😂😂"
Yeah, about a man who finds his wife's lover hiding in the closet, kills him, and stuffs the body back in! Then he'll have a very limited amount of time to get rid of it!
The Devil in Room No. 8Amazing! When does my book come out? Ha!
The Stalker on the Cruise Ship...I like that one!