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Let's Play: Create 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 shirt color 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!
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and shirt color 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 mystery title? Share it with us in the comments!
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The Liar in the Cemetery
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Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "The Shadow at the DMV (what the heck is the DMV?)"Department of Motor Vechicles
The Shadow in an all night diner ..🤔..why am I there, what am I doing..do I work for the secret food police watching what you eat 🚨
The body in the funhouse (This seems like it would be terrifying, especially for a child to go into a funhouse and you know, see a dead body.)
The Stalker in the Vegetable Aisle. I imagine a Ted Bundy type stalking victims based on the way they fondle cucumbers and melons. "It made him tingle the way she gripped the shaft of the cucumber, like she knew something intimate about it. Like it was going to be something more than a salad ingredient."
"The Stranger in the midnight Train" - "Der Fremde im Nachtzug"Mystery Titles sounding so much better in English than in German :D
The Devil under the Stairs. Is that a reference to Harry Potter lol
The Liar in the Warehouse... not sure it quite has a ring to it...
The Body on the Fire Escape!Awkward place to investigate.
The Body at the Car WashThat annoying customer who complained that his expensive luxury vehicle had a scratch after it left the car wash, causing the employee to get fired, gets revenge. Or the employee who has had enough of this one customer who says his/her vehicle is never clean enough.
The title could make for a great mystery-thriller novel.
