Book Detectives Gifts

"No, I'm not working undercover, Timmy. School librarians are allowed to use public libraries."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

"Lori, go ahead and toss in 'Lolita.' Now, what's next?" "We'll need more lighter fluid." "'The Lottery' is devils work." "We must protect the children." "Book burning club"

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

The Philip Marlow family

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

'Oddly enough you're the third person to buy that today!'

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

The evidence destroyed

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

"I have always depended on the content of strangers."

"It's a 12 inch chess board - the game's a foot."

Mysteries.

Fiction. Mystery. History.

Bibliomaniac

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

Locking Up Crime

'Have you got any good 'whodunnits'...?'

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"Any clues?"

Man reading a book in the library. Notices a man next to him reading all book about spying.

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that oppertunity