"And then the murders began."

[DarkFell]

This was taken from an old childhood book that I still own called The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree.

**All three of the Berenstain Bears (there are three of them in this story), managed to lose something, such as a rope, a stick, (and eventually) the flashlight, while dodging whatever they came across within the old tree.

[There were] three little bears. One with a [flash]light. And two with the shivers.

[A] great sleeping bear. Do they dare go over [the] great sleeping bear?

Do they dare? Well..

They went into the tree.
They climbed the stair.
They went through the [revolving] wall.
[And they] went into the hall.

So, of course they went over [the] great sleeping bear!

Spoiler:

And then, the murders began.

[Utrommaniac]

Just decided to do the whole first paragraph of The Sword in the Stone, because it wouldn't work with the first sentence.

Spoiler:

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. She did not rap Kay's knuckles, because when Kay grew older he would be Sir Kay, the master of the estate. The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. Kay had given him the nickname. Kay was not called anything but Kay, as he was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anybody had tried to give him one. The governess had red hair and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on some armour at a picnic by mistake. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kay's father, had hysterics and was sent away. They found out afterwards that she had been in a lunatic hospital for three years.

And then the murders began.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

In the beginning, God created heaven and Earth. And then the murders began...

[BubblyShell22]

Imagine it's the summer between sixth and seventh grade. You're tan from lying out next to your rock-line pool, you've got on your new Juicy sweats (Remember when everybody wore those?), and your mind's on your crush--that boy who goes to that other prep school whose name we won't mention and who folds jeans at Ambercrombie in the mall. You're eating your Coca Krispies just how you like em--doused in skim milk. You see this girl's face on a milk carton. She's cute--cuter than you and has a feisty look in her eyes. You think to yourself, Hmm, maybe she likes soggy Cocoa Krispies too and you bet she'd think Ambeercrombie boy was a hottie as well. You wonder how someone so...well so much like you would go missing. You thought only girls who entered beauty pageants ended up on the sides of milk cartons.

Well, think again. And then the murders began.

Taken from the prologue of Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. And believe me, there are a lot of murders in those books so that little phrase is indeed fitting.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

This is the law of the Jungle
As old and true as the sky
The wolf that keeps it will propser
The wolf that breaks it must die

And then the murders began.

[BubblyShell22]

Who is John Galt? And then the murders began.

This is taken from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand probably one of the most boring books in history. I think that little phrase would have helped it out and made it more interesting.

[Utrommaniac]

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

And then the murders began.

[DestronMirage22]

Not exactly following the rules of the game but I think this works really well:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
And then the murders began.

(It works particularly well when you remember that David used this quote in Alien Covenant when he dropped the black goo over the Engineer city)

[Utrommaniac]

For most of the animals of Farthing Wood, a new day was beginning.
And then the murders began.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years, if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

And then the murders began....

Amusingly enough, this is the opening paragraph of Stephen King's "It". I just recently began a reread, and the line fits in perfectly with the book!

[Utrommaniac]

Indeed so XD

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. And then the murders began