John D. MacDonald had colors in all of the Travis McGee books. Glen L. Cook uses metals in the titles of his fantasy detective books. What other authors have a “common element” in their titles?
It’s common in mystery series.
For instance, there’s Sue Grafton’s “Kinsey Millhone” mysteries, which are in the form “<Lettter> as in <word>”: ** A as in Alibi, B as Burglar, … S as in Silence**. No word as to the title of the 27th book in the series. 
There’s also Harry Kemmelman’s “<Day of the week> the Rabbi <two word phrase>” books: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry. When he got to the 8th books, it became “Someday the Rabbi Will Leave,” and he continued using various phrases with “Day” in them.
Lemony Snicket uses a two-word alliterative phrase in each book in his Series of Unfortunate Events.
Mysery writer Ed McBain started an alphabet series long before Grafton did: Ax, Bread, Calypso, Doll, Fuzz, etc. E was suppose to be for “EXIT,” and published after his death, but he never wrote it.
McBain also had the Matthew Hope mysteries, titled with nursery rhymes and stories: Goldilocks, Puss in Boots, The House That Jack Built, etc. However, Sue Grafton’s father beat him to it with a similarily set of titled mysteries in the 1950’s.
Lindsay Davis started using metals and gods in the titles of her Didius Falco detective novels set in ancient Rome, but gave it up after a while.
Silver Pigs
Venus in Copper
The Iron Hand of Mars
Poseidon’s Gold
But then she stopped, and hasn’t had another metal/god title since.
John Sandford has the ongoing Prey novels. Hidden Prey, Night Prey, Sudden Prey etc. I think there’s almost 20 of them.
H.Jay Ryker has a series on Navy SEALS: Medal of Honor, Bronze Star, Silver Star, and other decorations and medals.
James Herriot, country veterinarian turned author, used the first verse of an old christian hymn as his book titles, each book title being a different line from the hymn:
“All Things Bright and Beautiful”
“All Creatures great and Small”
“All Things Wise and Wonderful”
“The Lord God Made Them All”
I think we had a thread on this a while back but the boards are being temperamental for me so I don’t want to risk a search.
Robert Rodi has a series of comedy novels, each of which is titled with a two-word gay slang phrase. Closet Case, Fag Hag, Drag Queen and Kept Boy. He broke the pattern with What They Did to Princess Paragon.
Fred Hunter has the Alex Reynolds mystery series, each with a two-word homophonic title including a slang term for “homosexual.” Government Gay, Capital Queers, Federal Fag and National Nancys. He broke the pattern with The Chicken Asylum.
There’s Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series: The Insidious, The Return of, The Hand of, Daughter of, The Mask of, The Bride of, The Trail of, President, Emperor, The Shadow of, The Drums of and The Island of.
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum murder-mystery series has a number in each title: One for the Money, Two For the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, and so on. Her latest is Eleven on Top.
Dan Simmon’s beaucoups-of-bodies series: Hard Case, Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails.
A little bump to mention two female mystery writers:
[url=http://www.carolhigginsclark.com/pages/books.html]Carol Higgings Clark[/url[ has Popped, Decked, Snagged, Iced, Twanged, Fleeced, and Jinxed.
[url=http://www.eclectics.com/denise/index.html]Denise Dietz has “The Diet Club Mysteries,” including Throw Darts at a Cheesecake, Beat Up a Cookie, Footlights in the Butter, and Chain a Lambchip to the Bed.
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