People Are Adding "And Then The Murders Began" To Famous Book Openings, And It's Impossible Not To Laugh

Last night I dream I went to Manderlay again. And then the murders began. (Rebecca)

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the murders began. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

"Ok" says Luke calmly, "don't panic". And then the murders began.
(Shopaholic to the Rescue - Sophie Kinsella)

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. And then the murders began. (The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka)

I have made so ill use of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to intreat that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book; and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denyed. And then the murders began.
"The Complete Angler," 1653, by Isaak Walton

At Winterfell they had called her “Arya Horseface” and she’d thought nothing could be worse, but that was before the orphan boy Lommy Greenhands had named her “Lumpyhead.”

And then the murders began

(A CLASH OF KINGS, George RR Martin)

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side of the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. And then the murders began (White Fang.)

MR. JONES, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.
And then the murders began.

(Animal farm by George Orwell)

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And then the murders began. (The Gunslinger, Stephen King)

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. The took some honey and plenty of money, wrapped up in a,five pound note. The the murders began.

These these two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.
And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs Bucket. Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina.
This is Mr Bucket. This is Mrs Bucket.
Mr and Mrs Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie.
This is Charlie. And then the murders began..
Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Green sky at night; hackers delight. And then the murders began.

Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archive

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..." and then the murders began.

("A Visit from St Nicholas", Clement Clarke Moore)

“A bear? On Paddington station?” Mrs Brown
looked at her husband in amazement. “Don’t be
silly, Henry.There can’t be!” And then the murders began.
(A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond)

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. And then the murders began .....

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, was was the farmer's wife. ... And then the murders began.

Wizard of Oz. Frank L. Baum

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. And then the murders began.

The Hobbit. Tolkien.

"Who is John Galt?" The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the bum's face. The bum had said it simply, without expression. And then the murders began. (Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand)

A few months after my twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news. And then the murders began.

This is my story.
It really happened.
It's all true.
Not even the names have been changed.
Like most people I took my bum for granted. I agreed to tell my story in the hope that others could learn from it. If this book can save even just one person from making the same mistake, then I will be happy.
Who knows?
The next bum it saves might be yours.'...and the the murders began (the day my bum went Psycho by Andy Griffiths