Romance Novels — Solution

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Author: Chris King

Each image in this puzzle clues a word or phrase. Each word or phrase in the left column is paired with a word or phrase in the right column to form the name of a classical novel, joined by "and," while excluding any leading articles.

MASTER BLACK
CHARLIE GLORY
CRIME PUNISHMENT
POWER SEA
OLD MAN HAM
SONS DEAD
NAKED MAGICIANS
MARIO MARGARITA
GREEN EGGS FUTURE KING
RED LOVERS
WAR CHOCOLATE FACTORY
FATHERS SONS
ONCE PEACE

The left-column phrases are sorted alphabetically by the author's last name:

The right column is categorized by the final answer's phrase. Using the number in the corner, take that letter from the corresponding author's last name.

Word/PhraseCorresponding
Author
Index #Corresponding
Letter
Black Stendhal 7 A
Glory Green 5 N
Punishment Dostoyevsky 3 S
Sea Hemingway 7 W
Ham Seuss 2 E
Dead Mailer 6 R
Magician Mann 1 M
Margarita Bulgakov 5 A
Future King White 4 T
Lovers Lawrence 7 C
Chocolate Factory Dahl 3 H
Sons Turgenev 5 E
Peace Tolstoy 4 S

These indexed letters spell ANSWER MATCHES, meaning that MATCHES is the answer to the puzzle. This answer is appropriate from all the matching that took place to get the answer.