Help on Title for Noir Story

[W.a. Warner]

Hey all,

I'd love input on possible title for a story about a lawyer who teams up with a dominatrix to solve his wife's murder by hanging.

Here's my top two:

1) Ball Gags and Body Bags

2) Hangman's Fracture

Other suggestions or welcome.

Too crass? Not intriguing enough?  It may be worth noting that the "Hangman's Fracture" is a medical term of art that applies to the wife's death.  Also, the dominatrix helps Lawyer torture bad guys, including the use of ball gags. 

Thanks!

[I. J. Parker]

As both need translations, I don't see them as titles.

[Brian Hoffman]

A few Ideas

1.  The main characters first names. Like Mike, Gloria, and Barbara (a play on Sid & Nancy)

2. Whip

3. Twisted Heart

4. What I've Done for Love

5. Love and Money

6. Mistaken

7. Unfaithful

8. My Wife, My Life

9. Lure

10. Dominated

[Cammy May Hunnicutt]

B&DOA

Love Your Lashes

Dominant Traits

Whipping Up Murder

Bound For Murder

Maybe it doesn't matter... the right cover art will sell it.

(Just don't let PayPal get wind of it)

[Raymond Embrack]

Passion Play

Play Passion

The Last Girl Scout

[Cammy May Hunnicutt]

Like that last one.    They aren't your mother's cookies

[Stephen Brayton]

Submissive Death

Submit to Death

The Big Sleep (uh, never mind this one)

 

[Cammy May Hunnicutt]

The Big Whip?

Whip It Good?    Oh wait, that's been done

Cool Whip?

Dream Whip?

Majority Whip?

Whip Her Snapper?    Ok, ok, I get carried away.  (Thought not as often as I'd like)

[W.a. Warner]

Ha ha!  Very nice.  Actually, I thought that whipping was a little cliche.  In an attempt to brave (somewhat) new ground, I have the characters' preferred form of torture as electrocution.  In researching, (online only...) I've learned this is quite popular because the pain level can be easily adjusted and it leaves no marks behind.

[Cammy May Hunnicutt]

Now that is shocking

Probably hair-raising as well.   But opens up so many possiblities

Ampfire Girls

Hot Seat Murders

Wired For Death

and such

[Keith Dixon]

A Slave to Death

or

A Slave to Love

The choke was on her

You must be choking

Good noose, bad noose

(The bad noose bears ... ? Nah, too much)

Enough rope

Dead weight

The Punishers

Torture most foul

In my experience you may not take to a title someone actually suggests, but it sets the little grey cells thinking!

[Cammy May Hunnicutt]

LOL!  Good ones, Keith.   I have to tell you, if I saw a book called The Bad Noose Bears, I'd take a look inside.

[Barbara Scott-Emmett]

I quite like Hangman's Fracture actually. Intriguing without being crude. A brief note before the book starts could give the definition.