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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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JJ wrote: "Murder in the warehouse."Is that a book?
JJ wrote: "Murder in the warehouse."Sounds like an Agatha Christie book title
The Stranger in the Cemetery.Sounds pretty Ominous to me.
The Widow in the swampSounds pretty cool to me!
Murder in the Meat Locker, book one in a series about a vegan private investigator who somehow always finds herself investigating crimes that are far from vegan.
The Shadow in the Broom Closet. Well that's disappointing, it sounds distinctly underwhelming!
The Shadow At The Car DealershipMy life is over
Murder on the Midnight Train Now if only I had the time to actually write this...
"the Body in the Emergency room"sounds more like a non-fiction book about poor medical care than a mystery one, imho =)
Awais wrote: "Murder in the Casino!"Yay we got the same birthday! :D
Well I'm not the first but "The Widow on Flight 42"Sounds like a bad made for TV movie! LOL
The Stranger at the Botanical Garden... Doesn't sound mysterious, thrilling, or ominous enough... :/
The Stranger in the Wardrobe... doesn't really sound like a mystery to me. >.>
EsteeLTeng wrote: "The Stranger at the Botanical Garden... Doesn't sound mysterious, thrilling, or ominous enough... :/"At least you don’t have the shadow at the car dealership...
Had I known I would get so many notifiacTions, I would never had done this question. While it is cute, my phone and iPad is blowing up and it is quite annoying. Never again!
The Body under the Stairs I would definitely read that :)
The Woman at the Car Dealership. (this sounds so boring! but also like a nightmare, haaa)
Gloria wrote: "Had I known I would get so many notifiacTions, I would never had done this question. While it is cute, my phone and iPad is blowing up and it is quite annoying. Never again!"Gloria, you can opt out of receiving the replies of other people. I'm not sure how it works on the phone but for the website (desk/laptop), you will see this:
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Death in the broom closet... I wonder who died...
The widow at the Empty Zoo. sounds weird, why would a zoo be empty?
The Impostor in the Broom Closet. Not... the most terrifying mystery title I've ever heard.
The Liar in the Vitamin Aisle - sounds intriguing; I'd read it.
Huh!