I tried, and it hurt my head, and I cannot grasp the clue in the title in Gaiman's Murder Mysteries... Can somebody enlighten me, please??

it's a whodunit?

The clue is that it's plural - N has commented that some readers don't notice there are two murder mysteries, not just one

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Is it that simple? I saw some sites that play with "Murder My Steries" (as in murder my "stories"?) but it does not seems to make much sense. Also, Mysteries has a religious sense, in which the sentence could be seen as the Mystery of Murder, as in the Mystery of Faith, because it is God who is behind it all...

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Originally posted by GMZoe:
The clue is that it's plural - N has commented that some readers don't notice there are two murder mysteries, not just one

Oh wow. This is something I have been trying to figure out. What is the actual murder count? I have four with a possible five. Please help!

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I remember two murders in the prose story, and three (I think) in the graphic novel version. I never thought the narrator killed his ex-girlfriend and her kid. Maybe it hinted at it subtly and I missed it. In the comic it was explicit. Maybe I should read it again.

I commented on this a while back, but I can't track down the relevant thread. The angels in the story were designing Creation, so death didn't exist yet in the world. When an angel was killed, they had never experienced it before, and murder was a mystery to them.

lets not forget the religious connotations of the word mysteries

The explanation is the more prosaic one offered by GMZoe - there are mutiple murders, and the narrator (a hellbound soul if ever there was one - personally I think the end scene in the elevator is a reference to the movie Angel Heart, where Mickey Rourke is a murderer who has soul his soul to Lou Cifer, played by Robert DeNiro) killed his partner and their child (I believe, among others).