Alternative Book Titles....Just for Fun !!

MarcWatson-Gray

Just for fun.Can anyone come up with an alternative book title to an Agatha Christie story that captures the "gist"of the book without giving it away ?

For example:

Death In The Clouds =  Murder at 12,000ft or The Mile High Murder.

Cards On The Table = Dealer Of Death or The Deck Of Death.

A Murder Is Announced = Invitation to Die

I know that my suggestions are quite pathetic,(Not blessed with a great imagination !!) but you get the idea...

Maybe some countries other than the U.K. release the books with different titles or are translated differently.It would be good to hear of some  ??

Griselda

'A Dress Rehearsal' for Three Act tragedy. I don't think anything is exactly given away. Great third section in this book, only first two sections which lack atmosphere and continuity.

MarcWatson-Gray

Very Good !!

Anubis

Murder at the Vicarage could be Blood on the Pulpit, or Murder in the Pews.

Here are some titles of books published in North America. (Don't know why they were changed.)

The ABC Murders -> The Alphabet Murders

Dumb Witness -> Poirot Loses a Client

Five Little Pigs -> Murder in Retrospect

Taken at the Flood -> There is a Tide

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe -> The Patriotic Murders

Good Topic! It has inspired me to start a similar discussion.

maryamalbulushi

Lovely topic @MarcWatson-Gray and you've came up with good titles too .. I don't think I need to say how some publisher in middle east change the titles .. I will try to remember and also to come up with some alternative titles.. Wait for me ^_^

maryamalbulushi

We've got here ..
4.50 from Paddington = a man with no face
five little pigs = a travel to past
cards on the table= the forth murderer
the hollow= murder in the swimming pool
Hercule poirot Christmas = a family murder and much more.. But I don't buy from this publisher.. My collection has the exact translation from the English script

Tommy_A_Jones

The Thirteen Problems - The Classics Book of Crime

MarcWatson-Gray

Evil Under The Sun = Death in Paradise

Mrs McGinty's Dead = The Lodger's Dilemma

Murder On The Orient Express = Death On The Tracks or Revenge On The Rails

Everyone's ideas are great and imaginative .......

tudes

Cat among the pigeons = Meadowbank's murders

Griselda

'All the Wrong Poison' for 'The Moving Finger'

taliavishay-arbel

Ordeal by Innocence = The calamity of the innocent.