Prudence has answered Bruce's classified ad in the personals column, but their initial meeting is, to put it mildly, a major disaster.

Brother and sister find epistolary romance (with each other) through a personals column.

They became acquainted through the personals column of a French newspaper and have been corresponding by mail.

The major plot contrivance is a series of ghastly murders of men who have met women through a weekly personals column.

It's set in 1950's America and follows a brother and sister who try to find love in the personals column of their small-town paper.

They meet through an ad in a personals column in which he has represented himself as a playboy-financier and she as a university professor.

The personals columns in the Washington newspapers balloon with sweet sentiments, pages of them.

He starts placing provocative ads in the personals columns.

(Sample answer: "With toothbrush, soap and water"), and an electronic bulletin board that doubles as a personals column.

R. Someone likes to kill men who advertise for women in a weekly personals column.