Title Anagrams

In line with my online handle, below are twenty titles that authors of mystery fiction strangely chose not to use for their novels. Can you rearrange them to find the real book?

Hint 1 is the number of letters in each word, Hint 2 is the author. Highlight the space next to the hints to show the hidden text.

Answers – if required – will be provided sometime next week.

Dated Passion Hint 1 (2,4,2,4) Hint 2 J. J. Connington
Castle St Astern Hint 1 (6,4,4) Hint 2 E. C. Bentley
Gyrated Catheter Hint 1 (5,3,7) Hint 2 Agatha Christie
Head is Deadly Hint 1 (3,4,1,4) Hint 2 Carter Dickson
Heavy Crest Arrested Hint 1 (3,6,9) Hint 2 Agatha Christie
Hooking the Creed Hint 1 (3,7,5) Hint 2 John Dickson Carr
Meerkat for Malan Hint 1 (6,3,1,5) Hint 2 Michael Innes
Monkey Who Stole Cube Hint 1 (3,3,6,2,4) Hint 2 Agatha Christie
One Not Motivated Hint 1 (8,2,5) Hint 2 Freeman Wills Crofts
Our Damned Germ Hint 1 (6,4,3) Hint 2 Philip MacDonald
Our Defector Hint 1 (4,2,5) Hint 2 Christianna Brand
Our Main Complainer Hint 1 (9,2,6) Hint 2 Rupert Penny
Profit Hit Me Hint 1 (3,2,3,3) Hint 2 Hake Talbot
Sailing Wall Alibis Hint 1 (5,5,7) Hint 2 Helen McCloy
Spoon Storing Hint 1 (6,6) Hint 2 Dorothy L. Sayers
Swing Eternal Sea Hint 1 (4,4,7) Hint 2 H. Waugh or C. Dexter
The Haunted Linnet Hint 1 (5,2,3,6) Hint 2 Miles Burton
Tripe at the Anvil Hint 1 (5,3,7) Hint 2 Georges Simenon
Varlets Migrate Hint 1 (7,7) Hint 2 Georges Simenon
Wanted Dry Nose Hint 1 (3,4,6) Hint 2 Ellery Queen

Previous puzzles can be found here.

3 thoughts on “Title Anagrams”

Can’t figure ou #18
1. No Past is Dead
2. Trent’s Last Case
3. Three Act Tragedy
4. She Died a Lady
5. The Secret Adversary
6. The Crooked Hinge
7. Lament for a Maker
8. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
9. Antidote to Venom
10. Murder Gone Mad
11. Tour de Force
12. Policeman in Armour
13. Rim of the Pit
14. Alias Basil Willing
15. Strong Poison
16. Last Seen Wearing
17. Death in the Tunnel
18. ??
19. Maigret Travels
20. Ten Days’ Wonder