Six Books Saturday #11: Books with Interrogative Sentence as Title

#SixBooksSaturday is my personal monthly bookish meme, inspired by Six Words Saturday, which I've stumbled upon @ Travel with Intent. It's basically to list six books of random category, which I'd decided on the spot. Anything is possible according to my whim. I post Six Books Saturday on last Saturday of each month. If you're interested, you are, of course, welcomed to join me. There's no rule, really. You can post six anything about books.

This week prompt is something I've just realized, that I have read quite a few books with certain similarity, here it is...

BOOKS WITH INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE AS TITLE

1. Madam, Will You Talk? (Mary Stewart)

A gripping romance-thriller novel, of which genre, Mary Stewart has always been the queen. The curious title was quoted from an old Chesire song lyrics:

“O will you accept of me a new silver pin
To wrap up your hair and your fine muslin?
Madam will you walk, Madam will you talk with me?”

2. How Do You Live? (Genzaburo Yoshino)

A coming-of age Japanese psychological fiction which the author wrote specifically for younger readers, to teach them the importance of free and rich culture to human progress. It was an essay that his friend offered the job to write at first place, but fortunately he wrote this deep and enjoyable novel instead.

3. Where Are You Now? (Mary Higgins Clark)

A classic suspense-romance from another queen from another era (the 80s): Mary Higgins Clark. A young property agent accidentally witnessed a murderer leaving the victim's house, and she was put into witness protection program. With a new identity, nobody's supposed to know where she was.

4. Why didn't they ask Evans? (Agatha Christie)

One can always trust Agatha Christie to get interesting idea for her book title. This one isn't quoted from nursery rhyme, as were with many of hers. But rather, it's a remark from the sleuths when they finally realized that the key to their puzzling mystery should have been in the hand of the person called Evans.

5. N or M? (Agatha Christie)

It's a Tommy & Tuppence mystery, so it's naturally about spy operations. N and M are the initials of two German spies whose identities Tommy and Tuppence must find out among the seemingly innocent guests at a seaside hotel.

6. Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)

This was my first Dorothy L. Sayers (and still is - I need to read more soon!) A bachelor architect found a dead body of a stranger in his bathtub one morning, and no one have any idea of the who and why. It's an intriguing mystery for Lord Peter Wimsey to solve!


Have you ever read books with interrogative sentence as title? What's your favorites?


Next Six Books Saturday: 26th October 2024.