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A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes story )
A Scandal in Bohemia ( Sherlock Holmes story )
A Study in Scarlet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
A
Tale
Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
A
legend
in his own lifetime
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A
legend
in the making
Aga
saga
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America's best
record
( Puritan Records advertising slogan )
America's story teller ( Kodak advertising slogan )
An everyday story of country folk ( A catchphrase from The Archers )
And so to bed
And thereby hangs a
tale
And they lived happily ever after
Are you sitting comfortably? ( A catchphrase from Listen With Mother )
Article
of faith
As long as your arm
As the actress said to the bishop
Bad
Romance
( Lady Gaga song )
Begin at the beginning
Billy Liar (
Novel
and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Blow by blow
account
Bodice ripper
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Breaking story
Broken
record
Call to
account
Captain Underpants And The Perilous
Plot
Of Professor Poopypants ( Dav Pilkey book )
Cash for trash
Character driven
fiction
Chequebook journalism
Chilling
account
Chin wag
Chinese whispers
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Cock and bull story
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Cover story
Current events
Cut a long story short
Dig up the dirt
Dirty laundry
Each
Record
a Masterpiece ( Van Dyke Records advertising slogan )
End of story
Epic
proportions
Every picture tells a story ( Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan )
Fact not
fiction
Fair market value ( a reasonable price for an
article
for sale )
Fairytale ending ( a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales )
False jeopardy (
plot
device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm )
Fertile imagination
Fishy story
For the
record
Full
scoop
Get the
scoop
Give a good
account
of yourself
Gossip monger
Gunpowder treason and
plot
( line from nursery rhyme )
Hand a line
Hear tell of
Here's the thing
His Last Bow ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Hit the headlines
Hold the front page
Holiday
romance
In
record
time
Inside
scoop
Inside story
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A
Tale
Of Two Cities )
L A Story ( Steve Martin movie )
Land of make believe
Larry
Legend
( Nickname of Larry Bird )
Live to tell the
tale
Living
legend
Long
Tall
Sally ( Little Richard song )
Lose the
plot
Lost the
plot
Love Story ( Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie )
Love Story ( Taylor Swift song )
Love means never having to say you're sorry ( Love Story )
Man bites dog
Mansfield Park ( Jane Austen
novel
)
May to December
romance
Misery memoire
My side of the story
Myth
versus reality
Never hear the end of it
News from the front
Northanger Abbey ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Off the
record
Old wives'
tale
On the
record
Once upon a time
One side of the story
Open your
account
Paper trail
Poop and
scoop
Pride and Prejudice ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Pulp
Fiction
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Rumour has it
Same old story
Second
storey
man
Sense and Sensibility ( Jane Austen
novel
)
Set the
record
straight
Shoot someone a line
Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Sob story
Splashed across the front page
Spread a rumour
Story of my life
Stranger than
fiction
Surf
report
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome )
Take
account
of
Tales of the unexpected
Tall
dark and handsome
Tall
in the saddle
Tall
order
Tall
task
Tattle
tale
Tell
tale
sign
Tender Is The Night ( F Scott Fitzgerald
novel
)
The Adventure of Black Peter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Creeping Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Crooked Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Dancing Men ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Dying Detective ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Empty House ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Priory School ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Red Circle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Resident Patient ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Second Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Speckled Band ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Gables ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Students ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Yellow Face ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Boscombe Valley Mystery ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Final Problem ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Five Orange Pips ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Grapes Of Wrath ( John Steinbeck
novel
and Henry Fonda movie )
The Greatest Story Ever Told ( Charlton Heston movie )
The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Invisible Man ( HG Wells story and later a film )
The Lord of the Rings ( J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie )
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man with the Twisted Lip ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Palm Beach Story ( Claudette Colbert movie )
The Philadelphia Story ( Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie )
The Problem of Thor Bridge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Remains Of The Day ( Kazuo Ishiguro
novel
and Anthony Hopkins movie )
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Scarlet Letter ( Nathaniel Hawthorne story )
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (
Autobiography
of T E Lawrence ( of Arabia ) )
The Sign of the Four ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ( John Le Carre
novel
)
The Story Of Tracy Beaker ( children's story by Jacqueline Wilson )
The Valley of Fear ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Winters
Tale
The genuine
article
( Budweiser Beer advertising slogan )
The man, the myth, the
legend
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The
plot
thickens
Thereby hangs a
tale
To cut a long story short
To infinty and beyond ( line from the movie Toy Story )
To make a long story short
Too
Tall
( Nickname of Ed Jones )
Toy Story ( Tom Hanks movie )
Toys in the
attic
Track
record
Truth is stranger than
fiction
Urban
myth
Walk
tall
We report, you decide ( FOX News advertising slogan )
West Side Story ( Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie )
What a
scoop
What becomes a
legend
most? ( Blackglama Great Lakes Mink advertising slogan )
What's The Story Morning Glory? ( Oasis album )
Word has it
World
record
Wuthering Heights ( Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie )
Yarn
bombing ( Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti )