Friday 5

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Life's a Mystery

1. 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?

This series always reminds me of my sister Ellen who introduced me to them when I was 11. NOT that I had a CLUE what the subtext was for the most part!

Anyway: The White Snow Blowing; Life Under Gray Skies; The Chick with the Blood-Shot Eyes

2. 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?

T is for Thump (when the books fell off the cart this afternoon); M is for Music (good stuff today in Launchcast); W is for Wind (gusting really hard this evening)

3. 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?

(we don't have a lot in the way of murder around here--Thank God!--so we'll go with the reality of small town life)
Indecent Exposure in City Park; Drunk and Disorderly at Duffy's Tavern; Domestic Disturbance at the North Side Apartments

4. 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?

Blogs and Kisses; A Meme Before Dying; Linkin' Blogs

5. 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 Case of the Invisible $100 Bill; The Mystery of the Missing Vocabulary; The Secret of the Jam-Packed Calendar