Saturday, April 21, 2012

Guess the Title 10


Below are descriptions of six mysteries available at BN.com. Your job is to figure out which of the given titles belongs to the book. The fake titles were provided by your fellow Evil Minions. Descriptions were taken from BN.com. Answers at the bottom of the post.


1. When one of A.J.'s celebrity yoga students gets permanently bent out of shape, and another is accused of the crime, A.J. has no choice but to position herself as a sleuth to find the real killer.

Murder or Knot?
Bend Till it Breaks
Death with a Twist
Dial Om for Murder
The Pretzel Murders
Murder by Pranayama


2. Jordan McAllister can't cook her way out of a macaroni and cheese box, but filling in for the culinary reporter at The Ranchero Globe is better than writing personal ads. Her assignment to review the new steakhouse in town is a disaster that ends with her waiter murdered outside her door-with her name and number in his pocket.

High Steaks
Bloody Rare
Liver Let Die
The Ginsu Diaries
Murder, Well Done
Love Me Tenderloin, Love Me Tartare


3. Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson never wanted to be the crazy cat lady, but after Owen and Hercules follow her home, she realizes her mind isn't playing tricks on her-her cats have magical abilities. When the body of elderly Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath's favorite café, she knows Owen's talent for turning invisible and Hercules's ability to walk through walls will give the felines access to clues Kath couldn't get without arousing suspicion.

Cat Nipped
Sleight of Paw
Feline Flatfoots
Meow is for Murder
Magical Mystery Tabbies
Hercules Pawrot Investigates


4. When Stacy discovers Rafe's dead body in the ballroom dance studio she owns, the police suspect her of killing him. To clear her name and save her studio, Stacey teams up with Rafe's estranged cousin from Argentina, Tav, to find the real killer. And if Stacy doesn't watch her step, the killer may make this dance her last.

Three to Tango
Deadly Dancing
Quickstep to Murder
Crazy Like a Foxtrot
It Takes Two to Tangle
Save the Last Death for Me


5. 1963. Elvis Presley is contacted by a former army buddy. Littlejon is serving life in a California penitentiary for the murder of a young actress on the MGM lot and he insists he was framed. Elvis figures that solving the crime is just what he needs to escape all those people making demands of him, both professionally and romantically.

All Shot Up
Kill Me Tender
Blue Suede Clues
Don't Be Clueless
Elvis Takes the Case
The Perp and the Pelvis


6. An assistant librarian and a roving reporter make an unlikely pair as they attempt to solve a chain of murders connected to the town library in this mystery set in a small town in Oklahoma.

Booked!
Checking Out?
Out of Circulation
Death Stalks The Stacks
The Ochelata Bibliognost
Murder by Dewey Decimal



Answers below.


Fake titles submitted by Faceless Minion, Adele, Angela Robbins, arhooley, PLaF, Mister Furkles, Jo-Ann, kbradley67, Anon, anon, anonymous and Evil Editor.




Actual Titles


Dial Om for Murder
Liver Let Die
Sleight of Paw 
Quickstep to Murder
Blue Suede Clues
Murder by Dewey Decimal

7 comments:

journeytogao said...

Wait! "Murder by Dewey Decimal" is an actual title? That's my fake title, except I think it was more like "Murder by the Dewey Decimal System."

Evil Editor said...

Actually, it was The Dewey Decimal Death System.

batgirl said...

Well, Sigvarðr is an actual Norse name, a variant of Sigiwart, meaning victory-guardian.
Myst isn't a Norse name or word. Neither is Mysta. The Norse word for 'mist' or 'cloud' is Mist, if that's what the author is going for.
The closest otherwise that I could find is Myskia, which means 'bat'.

Not that most readers of urban fantasy will care, any more than most romance readers mind Saxon heroines named Heather or Jasmine instead of Walburga.

AlaskaRavenclaw said...

That was the only book of the lot I'd actually heard of.

journeytogao said...

Oh.

So, wait. The real title is "Murder by Dewey Decimal" and I coincidentally hit on some key words?

journeytogao said...

batgirl --

You in the right thread? Just asking.

angela robbins said...

i can't believe some of my terrible titles made the list. then again, i read the real titles and...
i do love Liver Let Die.