I like wordplay. I don't know whether the following is a formal game, but I had the idea to take a title, maintain the sound of its syllables but change the spelling so that the same sounds gives another meaning.
This follows the rules of pronunciation. For example, a consonant at the end of a word can be shared with the next word. "I scream" can become "ice cream." Or, in reverse, the consonant sounds are compacted and "ice cream" can become "I scream." However, a vowel sound at the end of a word cannot be repeated. So, "Rocky Road" can become "Raw Key Rowed" or "Rock Erode" but not "Raw Key Erode."
Homonyms are encouraged. Alternative pronunciations tolerated. "A pair" can be "ape air" or "up air."
The best have a sort of sense, rather than random words. In fact, I tossed away quite a few.
With that introduction, here are the misheard mysteries. The titles were taken from the top-voted mysteries via Goodreads and from other classics. The "solutions" are below.
- Gong Earl
- Thud of In-Cheek Ode
- Fur-Stewed, I
- Boar Nigh Den Titty
- Thus Urge On
- Not Sand Craw Says
- Ape Red Utter Remind (one of my novels)
- Dan, Saul Love the Dead
- Soon A Meek On Neck Shun
- The Caw-Finned Answer
- The Trait or Tomb, M or E
- In Purse Suit of the Prop Purse Inner
- When Thus Ache, Red Djinn Milk Low Says
- Thug Riffed Terse
- Mare Ream Airy
- I Scold
- Farce, Sigh Ted
- Sigh Lent in Thug Rave
- Fair Whelm Isle of Lee.
- Prix Zoomed In No Scent
- Teen Curtail or Sold Yours Pie
- Gore Keep Ark
- Thug Lass Ski
- The Fall Sin-Specked Urdu
- Da Bull In Dem Nitty
- Thuck Iller Rinse Sighed Me.
- Smile Ease Pee Pull
- Ate. I'm Took Ill.
- Craw Code Dial Lawn Thus And Bank.
- The Sunk-'Em Mist
- Tie Manned Egg In
- Shoe-Teen's Crypt
- Rose Marries Bay Bee
The Translated Titles
- Gone Girl
- The DaVinci Code
- First to Die
- Borne Identity
- The Surgeon
- Knots and Crosses
- A Predatory Mind
- Dance Hall of the Dead
- Tsunami Connection
- The Coffin Dancer
- The Traitor to Memory
- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
- When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes
- The Grifters
- Mary, Mary
- Ice cold
- Farsighted
- Silent in the Grave
- Farewell, My Lovely
- Presumed Innocent
- Tinker, Tailor, Solider Spy
- Gorky Park
- The Glass Key
- The False Inspector Dew
- Double Indemnity
- The Killer Inside Me
- Smiley's People
- A Time to Kill
- Crocodile on the Sandbank
- The Sun Chemist
- Time and Again
- Shooting Script
- Rosemary's Baby
Martin Hill Ortiz is the author of Never Kill A Friend, Ransom Note Press.
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Never Kill A Friend is available for purchase in hard cover format and as an ebook.
The story follows Shelley Krieg, an African-American detective for the Washington DC Metro PD as she tries to undo a wrong which sent an innocent teenager to prison.
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