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The Case of...
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And now, my friends, we examine ''The Case of the Stock Mystery Title''. Starting the title of your work with the magic words, "The Case of..." is a great way to tell your readers that what they are about to encounter is a mystery or involves mysterious events. This is particularly common in Detective Fiction, where the detective is presumed to have a collection of case files, which some fictional biographer may be sorting through for publication. One common variant is to interject an adjective before the word "case". This adjective will usually serve to heighten the sense of mystery. Words like "Curious" or "Strange" are common choices. In detective fiction, the name may also be preceded by the name of the detective: Inspector So-and-so: The Case of the Intriguing Title. "A Case of..." does not, for whatever reasons, carry the same connotations. "The Case of..." is clearly a mystery of some sort; "A Case of..." is just something that happened (or possibly an infectious disease). This is also a case of a The X of Y Sub-Trope. |
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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, first book in the Origami Yoda series. | |
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The Hardy Boys used this a few times, with titles like The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals and The Case of the Psychic's Vision. | |
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The Hank the Cowdog children's mystery series began using this beginning with the eighth book in the series, The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse. At this point, the majority of the books in the series follow this template. | |
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Looney Tunes: "The Case of the Stuttering Pig" (a Porky Pig cartoon, natch). The Bugs Bunny cartoon "Case of the Missing Hare" (about a mysterious magic trick, not detectives). |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had episodes titled "The Case of the Missing Pizza" and "Case of the Hot Kimono". | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: "The Case of the Drugged WAC" has Diana and Steve Trevor realizing that Dr. Psycho's abused wife who escaped him and became a WAC is probably unconscious due to Dr. Psycho using her as his medium against her wishes once more. | |
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On the Franklin All-CGI Cartoon spin-off Franklin and Friends, many of the stories involving the Super Cluepers (Franklin and his friends dressed as mystery-solving team) are titled this way. | |
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Physical Exorcism: Case 01 | |
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Supernatural had an episode named "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester". | |
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Whateley Universe: The Case of the Poisonous Patent | |
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Also in The Kindaichi Case Files. (Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbou) | |
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Sensation Comics: The Dr. Pat feature had a pair of stories titled The Case of the Absent-Minded Doctor and The Case of the Mechanical Brain. | |
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SQS episode 5: The Case of the Disappearance of Takamura Shiki | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985) has an episode entitled "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon". | |
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The Physical Exorcism Series has this for its cases with "Number of Objects" Title: Case 00: The Cannibal Boy Physical Exorcism: Case 01 Case 02: Paranormal Evil |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
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Every single one of the eighty-two Perry Mason novels used this format, starting with 1933 and The Case of the Velvet Claws. In fact, the Perry Mason books are the Trope Codifier. | |
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"The Case of the Stuttering Pig" (a Porky Pig cartoon, natch). | |
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Almost all of the books in The McGurk Organization series by E.W. Hildick were titled this way. | |
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In The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow "Mister (Johnny) Hollow" is the photographer who has sent a mysterious photo of four figures at a campsite to an Occult Detective investigating paganism in Ontario, Canada. | |
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Arthur has the Noir Episode "The Case of the Girl with the Long Face", and "Fern and the Case of the Stolen Story", which involves some characters writing detective fiction. | |
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The Western Mysteries uses this naming scheme, with The Case of the Deadly Desperados and The Case of the Good Looking Corpse. | |
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Batman: "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" is the story from DC Comics' Detective Comics #27 that introduced Batman to the world. | |
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The Bugs Bunny cartoon "Case of the Missing Hare" (about a mysterious magic trick, not detectives). | |
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The Mathnet segments on Square One TV were generally named this way, though in the first season they were usually named "The Problem of..." instead. | |
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The remakes of Dragon Quest IV title the first chapter "Ragnar McRyan and the Case of the Missing Children". | |
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The Case Closed anime unilaterally used this for its first 150-odd episodes. The manga dipped into it once or twice, but generally used more unique titles from the start. | |
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Case 02: Paranormal Evil | |
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Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse had every one of its episodes titled "The Case of..." | |
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An episode of Rugrats was titled "The Case of the Missing Rugrats". | |
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Of the 12 Miles Pennoyer stories by Margery Lawrence, 8 keep to "The Case of..." naming convention. Those are The Case of the Bronze Door, The Case of the Haunted Cathedral, The Case of Ella McLeod, The Case of the White Snake, The Case of the Moonchild, The Case of the Young Man with the Scar, The Case of the Leannabh Sidhe, and The Case of the Double Husband. | |
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The Encyclopedia Brown series has used this many times, with titles like Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles and Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers. | |
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A first-season episode of The Little Rascals was titled "The Case of the Puzzled Pals". | |
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Spoofed in Cuticle Detective Inaba. The part after the 'of' typically doesn't make sense. Everything else in the manga, even less so. | |
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C.O.P.S. (Animated Series) episode titles all began with "The Case of..."; for example. "The Case of Big Boss' Master Plan". | |
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Nancy Drew had a few, like The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds, and The Case of the Vanishing Veil. | |
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CSI season eight had an episode named "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp". | |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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Baroness Orczy (author of The Scarlet Pimpernel) published a collection of detective stories called The Case of Miss Elliot, which was also the name of one of the stories. | |
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Bad Machinery is about two trios of young teenagers who are obsessed with solving mysteries. All the chapters take the form of ''The Case of the..." | |
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The Avengers (1960s) had an episode called "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues"; in the story a killer seeded his crime scenes with false evidence and, in the guise of a detective, implicated someone else for the murders. | |
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Sunnyville Stories: "The Case of the Crushed Cake" involves the protagonist Rusty trying to figure out who really destroyed a prized cake. | |
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While none of the individual Sherlock Holmes stories use this template, the last-published collection, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, at least suggests it. This is possibly an example of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, as virtually every Sherlock Holmes pastiche or parody uses the format, yet the actual stories almost always use "The Adventure of X" instead. Though "A Case of Identity" comes close. In Dead Man's Land by Robert Ryan, Winston Churchill tries to interest Dr. Watson in what he calls "The Case of the Man Who Died Twice". |
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Case 00: The Cannibal Boy | |
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Parodied in Gravity Falls, where a book (starring a knock-off of The Hardy Boys known as The Sibling Brothers) is titled The Case of the Caper-Case Caper. | |
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