Puns in the titles of cozy mysteries signal a light tone and often a large helping of humor. The tradition of using a food pun in the titles of culinary mysteries traces back to the 1990s when Diane Mott Davidson’s Cereal Murders and Phyllis Richman’s The Butter Did It came out. If anyone knows of earlier punning titles of food mysteries, please let me know. Four of my titles incorporate a pun with food and the suggestion of wrongdoing or death. For all but my first book, the title dish has five-ingredients or fewer, appears on the cover, and plays a role in the plot. Needless to say, I obsess about titles.

​Comment with your favorite punning culinary (or other) mystery title for a chance to win an Advanced Reader Edition of S'more Murders, which comes out on July 31st. To comment, click on the word "Comments" in the column to the left of this post.
 
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