Book-loving Detective Mugs

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.

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

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

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

The evidence destroyed

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

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

Bibliomaniac

Book Worm

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

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

Mysteries.

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

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

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

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

Locking Up Crime

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

"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?"

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

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