The Friday 5 - Very Hard This Week
The Travis McGee series of mystery novels by John D. MacDonald is famous for always including a color in its titles, such as The Dreadful Lemon Sky, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, and The Empty Copper Sea. What two or three similar titles could you give to events in your life in the past week?
The Beautiful Blue Sky (specifically Wednesday)
The Ghastly Grey Water (specifically today)
The Weird Chestnut Hair Do (specifically me)
The Kinsey Millhone series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton is famous for its alphabetical titles, such as A is for Alibi, K is for Killer, and M is for Malice. What two or three similar titles could you give to recent episodes at your workplace or school?
F is for Foosty Fridge
W Is for Wild Wind
M is for Mental Mate
Margaret Truman’s murder mysteries are known for being set in and around Washington, D.C. with such titles as Murder at the Pentagon, Murder at the Kennedy Center, and Murder on Capitol Hill. What are two or three similar titles you could give to episodes of great inconvenience to you around your hometown?
Strangulation at Scotts
Murder at Marr
Tripping Up in Troon
Susan Conant’s Dog Lover Mysteries often contain dog-related puns, such as A New Leash on Death, Paws Before Dying, and Dead and Doggone. If a series of books were to be written about your favorite hobby, what might some of the punny titles be?
What a Wicked Web we Knit
Walking into Weird Things
The Three Investigators series of juvenile mysteries often explores baffling phenomena that turn out to have perfectly reasonable explanations, such as The Mystery of the Invisible Dog, the Mystery of the Headless Horse, and the Secret of the Haunted Mirror. What would be a couple of similar titles you could give for the last few things that mysteriously disappeared from your possession?
The Mystery of the Missing Mechanical Pencil
The Mystery of the Disappearing Red and White Shirt which Everyone hated but Me.
hahaha now i really want to see the shirt.
ReplyDeleteI loved that shirt!
ReplyDeleteI found a nearly similar one, but Eilidh ran out of the shop before I could get it to the check out.