Book-loving Detective Gifts

Crime

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

The Dorrie Decimal System

"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."

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

'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.'

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

"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!'

'Keep an eye on that one. He looks like a sketchy character to me.'

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

The evidence destroyed

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

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

Book Worm

Mysteries.

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

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

Bibliomaniac

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

Fiction. Mystery. History.

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

Locking Up Crime

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

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

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

"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?"

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